The film opens with Quoyle’s father pushing him as a young boy off a dock to teach him to swim. He leads a solitary life until he meets Petal (Cate Blanchett), who flits from one cheap tawdry affair to another. Ten minutes after they meet, the two are engaged in a graphic sex scene. Later, Petal brings a man into their home and Quoyle hears sounds of sex through the walls. When Quoyle is left to raise his daughter alone, his deep love for Bunny enables him to finally develop a loving relationship. Flashbacks provide background to explain characters, showing Quoyle nearly drowning twice, a floating corpse, a graphic vision of a man tortured to death, and a young girl’s rape. Salty language ,including seven obscenities and nine profanities, plus the brief but graphic sex scene, always gratuitous by our standards, sink THE SHIPPING NEWS for acceptability.
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