Have you seen The Departed yet? No? Well I’m about to talk about it, particularly the ending.
You’ve been warned.
Sometimes a film tries so hard to be anti-Hollywood that it becomes Hollywood. Especially when it IS Hollywood. And that’s what struck me about the ending of The Departed, which I was quite enjoying until it got to that point. First 4/5ths of the film: 8 out of 10. Last fifth of the film: 4 out of 10 what with all the shenanigans.
PS – anyone know why it’s called The Departed?
Well, it’s a remake of a Hong Kong film called “Infernal Affairs” (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338564/). Though that doesn’t speak at all to why it’s now called “The Departed”. Well, “Infernal Affairs” does sound kind of goofy, and a bad pun at that.
Perhaps the folks in “The Departed” are just so bad, so immoral, that they’ve left their humanity?
I don’t know, haven’t seen it yet.
“The Departed” are the dead. Which, at the end of the movie is nearly everyone.
There was even a line early on, “Did you know the departed?”
Oh I forgot that line.