A fully clothed woman kisses a scarecrow and grinds on it for a while and moans.

The only nudity in the film appears when an old "stag film" is seen, which is a pornographic black and white short from early 20th century. Some female full frontal nudity and male buttocks visible, with lots of caressing but no penetration.

A woman kills a goose with a pitchfork offscreen. She's seen carrying its bloody corpse on the pitchfork to feed to an alligator.

A woman imagines her husband, who's in the war, exploding in a gory fashion. She is then seen popping an egg in her hand, letting it ooze in a mess.

Two women argue, eventually leading to the two slapping each other before one of them gets pushed against a fireplace and almost burns to death. She's seen later with half her face badly burnt and bloody.

One use 'whores' and 'harlot'.

Some brief smoking.

A woman drinks cold medicine, liquid morphine, intended for someone else.

A young woman considers killing her father.

Pearl's mental decline throughout the movie can be quite disturbing and unsettling to viewers.