

Parents need to know that Chloe Gong's These Violent Delights is a retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, setting the story of star-crossed lovers from feuding families in 1920s Shanghai. A few other historically accurate mentions of smoking, ashtrays, etc.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. The plot involves a fictional new opiate called "lernicrom." A secondary character is mentioned smoking a few times. An opium den mentioned with slumped bodies and bad smells. A few mentions of buying and selling opium, and that a gang processes theirs to make it more addictive. A seedy location mentions people slugging back drinks who are probably on a lot of different drugs, too. Mention that adults try to out-drink each other. A characters drinks a bottle of gin and orders another. Older teens remember when they were 15 and took liquor from their parents and drank it in a park. A scene in a bar has older teens drinking many shots of tequila.
