Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1

The movie tries to show the American West as slightly more diverse than it's usually depicted, with Black characters living alongside White ones in Horizon and portrayals of sympathetic Chinese immigrants and helpful Mexican and Native American characters. But all of these characters occupy fairly small or supporting roles. White characters are the main focus here. One sneeringly calls a Mexican character "vato," a White character refers to a Native American as "chief," and a White character uses the term "Injun."

Guns and shooting, with people (including a child) shot and killed. Characters are stabbed with spears or arrows. Blood spurts, pools of blood, and bloody corpses. One character grapples with another and attempts to stab him with knife but is shot in the head. Several bloody scalps are shown; a character "playfully" rubs one on a boy's forehead, leaving a bloody streak. A house is attacked by forces outside; arrows punch through walls, and flames sneak in from above. People attack a village, flinging lanterns to set buildings on fire, shooting and killing innocents with arrows, and kidnapping a young child. Several characters die by suicide, blowing up a tent and deliberately taking out several attackers. Person shot in the hand, punched in the face and kicked (face shown to be bloody and bruised), slapped, and hit with a rifle butt. Person is pistol-whipped. Women in peril, trapped in a cellar that's slowly filling with dirt. Dead bodies are buried, with lime sprinkled onto their corpses. Children shown handling and shooting guns. Smacking in face. Character attacked by a group of other people. Person is kicked. Woman whacks men with umbrella.

A woman bathes outdoors; her breasts are visible, and her hand runs up and down her legs, while two men watch, unseen. A woman seduces a man, rubbing her hand on his crotch area and then positioning herself on top of him under the covers and telling him, "you just lay there." Kissing. A woman is a sex worker; she solicits clients, and she's seen getting dressed after a session with a client. Sex-related dialogue. A sex worker wears a cleavage-enhancing outfit, her breasts bulging in close-up.

Several uses of "goddamn," plus "s--t," "Jesus Christ" (or "Jesus" or "Christ), "bitch," "ass," "bastard," "damn," "hell," "piss," "my God," "shut up."

A doctor appears to be very drunk; he weaves and slurs (a character dumps a bucket of water on him). Bartender pours "free" whiskey for another character. Character accused of "drinking before noon." Character swigs brandy out of a small glass bottle. Character sips whiskey while working. Casual drinking. Background smoking.