Scum
Movie • 1979 • Drama
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This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British Borstal for young offenders. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power struggle between the 'tough' new inmate and the 'old hands'. This film is a re-make, by the same director and writer, of a 1977 BBC teleplay banned before broadcast [see Scum (1991)].
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OscarLeatherdale
There is a gang-rape scene of a teenager that lasts for about 6 minutes, Extremely graphic and disturbing
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Sort of - one of the youngest inmates (though played by someone 17-18 at the time) is gang raped by three peers while the warder looks on and grins
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young people are killed
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Multiple characters harm themselves with razors. It's graphically depicted each time.
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Racial and homophobic pejoratives are near constant.
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Various antiblack slurs are spoken throughout.
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TW: MENTION OF SEXUAL ASSAULT.
A 12/13 year old is assaulted by three 17/18 year olds.
A 12/13 year old is assaulted by three 17/18 year olds.
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