There are visual and verbal references to sexual activity, including a recollection by Caravaggio of masturbating another man.

There are some scenes in which knives cause bloody injury. In one scene, a man is wounded in his side, and in another the slashing of a man's neck has fatal consequences.

The film contains twelve uses of strong language ('f**k'), as well as milder bad language, including uses of 'piss artist', 'bastard', 'bloody' and 'bugger'.