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The film’s explicit scenes, including a gruesome incestuous plotline involving triplets, appear to be played for shock value and titillation rather than serious storytelling. For instance, Blake Lively's character, Emily, is revealed to have triplet sisters—one believed dead in the womb—but who later turns out to be alive, kidnapped, and manipulated into sexually explicit situations. One particularly disturbing scene shows her sister Charity caressing and attempting to manipulate Emily in a drugged state, with moments that seem designed to push boundaries and distort social taboos.