A mother holds a fake handgun to the back of a little boy's head while he's lifting weights.
Two teenage boys hunt stray cats for money throughout but only one killing is seen at the very start where one is briefly drowned. Though this is distressing, no actual violence towards cats occurred on set. There are references in dialogue to more gruesome ways of killing cats and sight of several dead cats, including two boys whipping a dead cat and repeatedly shooting a dead cat with a BB gun.
A disturbing sequence shows that a disabled woman is being pimped by a relative.
There is very brief but somewhat bloody sight of the aftermath of self-harm in a montage, as the word "SLAYER" is seen cut into a person's arm.
A man forces himself onto a teenage girl by putting his hands between her legs. The girl runs away, and the man repeatedly calls her trash and various things as a response.
A teenage character frequently talks about committing suicide and aberrant acts of violence in brief snippets that are hard to hear.
There is some footage shown of a destructive tornado. A large animal (possibly a cow) is shown falling from a rooftop to the ground, dead. This is supposedly actual footage.
Two boys shoot at another boy with BB guns.
Two brothers have a playful fistfight. They deliver heavy blows to each others' faces and (very briefly) blood forms around one of their mouths.
The violence is disturbing and but not very graphic.