The Departed - Family Review

Content Warnings

• Sexual Content

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  Costello has a girlfriend who is probably 35-40 years younger than him. In a few scenes it is implied that they will have sex.

  Early in the film Frank Costello calls a girl, presumably 14-16, behind the counter and asks her if she wants to have sex with him (the girl before on the counter is seen to be making eye contact with Frank) this is played as a joke.

  Costello is heard masturbating in a theater. He then stands up and turns around to face another character, a penis is briefly shown on screen, though it is obviously fake and he was merely joking, not actually masturbating. Then Costello later talks about "not understanding how people masturbate in a theater." The act isn't shown and the scene is meant to be funny.

  A man and a woman passionately kiss on a bed for around 20 seconds. He is clothed, she is wearing an unbuttoned shirt with a see through bra. She is in her underwear.

  Many vulgar sexual references throughout

  Most of the movies sexual content are crude sexual references and brief nudity in the cinema scene.

  In the theater scene, the film playing is of women acting in sexual ways. No explicit nudity is seen, but the women are in quite revealing clothes. This entire scene is also difficult to skip through as it holds an important conversation in the movie, it is easy whoever to simply turn away and listen to it.

• Violence

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  There's a flashback of people beating each other up over who rides the bus.

  A man and a woman are shot in the head with visible blood spray. This is shown from the side so it's not as graphic.

  A man fidgets with a severed hand, the bag it was in is also covered in blood

  A man beats someone to death somewhat offscreen with a metal pipe, blood sprays onto walls. Brief and offscreen

  A man throws a toy at at a mans face, a cut forms on his face. A man is shot in the head with blood spray, we see his dead body on the ground with a bloody bullet hole in his head.

  A shootout begins between Costello's gang and some police men afterwards, a man gets shot in the stomach, large amount of blood sprays from the wound. A police officer is shot in the shoulder, blood spray, he falls to the ground, a puddle forms beneath him.

  Costello is seen with blood all over his clothes and arms from doing who knows what.

  Onscreen body count: 24. There are multiple shootings that are bloody and abrupt. Characters die unexpectedly

  There are some black and white pictures of dead men who executed by gangsters and mobsters. There is some blood seen on their bodies.

  A brief flashback of a man killing his wife.

• Profanity

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  270 uses of "fuck" (5 used with "mother," 4 used sexually), 25 "s" words, 19 slang terms using male genitals ("c*ck," "c*cks*cker," "d*ck," "p*ckers" and "pr*ck"), 9 using female ones ("c*nt" and "p*ssy"), 10 asses (2 used with "hole"), 3 damns, 1 S. O. B., 3 uses each of "goddamn," "Jesus Christ" and "Oh my God" and 1 use each of "Christ's sakes," "For Christ's sakes," "Oh Christ," "Oh Jesus Christ" and "Swear to God."

  Some of the language is used sexually but most of the sexual references comes from Costello

  Highly blasphemous profanity.

  Blow is used several times in a sexual way (blow me, blowjobs etc)

  One use of a middle finger.

  A group of Chinese people are called chinks by a white character.

  213 uses of the f word.

  A total of 414 profanities.

• Intense Scenes

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  The store beating scene is intense.

  Not scary or frightening, just very intense and thrilling

  Very intense and heart-racing moments throughout.

  Costello's interrogation of Billy is intense.

  Some of the violence occurs very suddenly in moments you least expect it.