The Departed
AI Woke Score
No detectable agenda — story first.
confidence: high
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The Verdict
The Departed is a hard-edged, male-dominated crime thriller with zero identity messaging. It's a faithful-in-spirit remake of *Infernal Affairs* whose changes are purely creative. Nothing here registers on the woke-meter — it scores clean across the board.
What the AI Flagged
Each axis scored 0–100, with the receipts. The headline score weights the worst offense, so a single egregious element isn't diluted by the rest.
Identity Swaps
0No established characters are race- or gender-swapped; this is a remake of Infernal Affairs reset in Boston with new characters.
Girlboss & Male Demotion
5Male-dominated crime thriller; the lone significant female character is a competent professional with no anti-male messaging.
LGBTQ+ / Trans / Non-Binary Content
0No LGBTQ+ characters or themes present.
DEI Casting
5Casting fits the working-class Irish-American Boston setting; no checkbox diversity.
Preachiness
3A gritty character-driven crime drama with no sermonizing or activist messaging.
Anti-Masculinity / Anti-West
8Depicts violent, flawed men but frames them as individual characters, not a thesis about toxic masculinity or the West.
Source Betrayal
5A loose adaptation of Infernal Affairs, but changes are creative localization, not identity- or agenda-driven.
- Relocates the Hong Kong story to South Boston's Irish mob
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Cast & Crew
Leonardo DiCaprio
Billy
Matt Damon
Colin
Jack Nicholson
Costello
Mark Wahlberg
Dignam
Martin Sheen
Queenan
Ray Winstone
Mr. French
Vera Farmiga
Madolyn
Anthony Anderson
Brown
Alec Baldwin
Ellerby
Kevin Corrigan
Cousin Sean
Doug Davison (Executive Producer) · G. Mac Brown (Executive Producer) · Roy Lee (Executive Producer) · Martin Scorsese (Director)
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