Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Why The Film The Departed Is Worth Watching

By Jay Armstrong

Released in two thousand six, the departed is one of the conventional mafia police war movies, but this one has a twist. The story is based on the rivalry between the Irish American mafias and the police and this time there are actually two agents who are busy in double crossing their organizations. One does it for the bad guys and the other for the good ones.

This story is a summary of betrayals and thrills all coming together under the umbrella of the traditional rivalry between the mafias and law enforcing agencies. Similar movie genre always seem to depict a cop integrating within the criminals to identify and capture their heads and bosses. In this case the twist is that the mafia prepares their lad to land in the midst of the law enforcers to spy for them.

Billy is basically depicted as the central good cop character whose family connections with the mafia land him in the job of spying on the cartels and the bad guys. He is quick enough to capitalize on his prevalent connections within the mafia and gains unsurpassed respect as a mob leader. This helps him greatly in getting the gist of all the criminal planning being done and helps him tip off the fellow cops in order to stop the execution of those plans.

Collin Sullivan, the mafia man in the police, on the other hands is as sharp and cunning as Billy and quickly moves to higher positions within the Police special investigation units. His double role is appreciated because this is one factor that makes this film different from other mafia movies. His affiliation with the wrong side of the law makes him the only leading character in the movie that attracts the critics as well as the general film audience.

As the movie moves forward, both the mafia and the police identify the fact that they both have intruders within their ranks that are tipping off the opposite parties. At this point both Collin and Billy, have to prove their worth and originality to their organizations in order to stay clean. There is a definitive struggle to unveil the crook and in this process the movie lingers on with some suspense oozing action packed sequences. This is the time when the human sense of betrayal is seen dominant as both these agents are on a brink to unveil and turn in their fellow mates and colleagues they have been working with.

The last half of the film is the one in which all the puzzle pieces begin to fall in place. The departed cannot be rated as an ultimate action thriller but you can say that it is action drama at its very best. The last scenes mainly focus on the arriving collision and betrayal unveiling between Collin and Billy and hence it is action and suspense filled.

Billy is seen going after Collin in order to convince him to leave the gang and use his immunity in order to get a normal life back. This argument and trail ends up with Billy getting shot at by Collin which results in his death.

The story is a myriad of ups and downs with some very obvious twists and some great thriller sequences. The bottom line of The Departed remains that no matter how powerful crime grows, it can never topple the truth, honesty, and goodness of society.

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