THE DEPARTED with Jack Nicholson, Leo Di Caprio and
Matt Damon. It is like a Policeman Goodfellas.
A example in this case of a badly written and
incomplete film project put together by a committee: it is composed of concepts,
and vignettes, that dont resolve themselves.
The police is after a big criminal
boss named Costello (Italian name for
a Irish gangster?). In the end it is the
police who is corrupt and the big boss
they are after is already a FBI informer !?
Policemen know each other from childhood,
like Italian mafia guys. The behavior of the
police in the HQ is that they get into
fist fights with each other ! One detective
(Wahlberg) keeps tough talking to the
point of being a annoyance. Bad acting throughout,
or overblown acting. The camera hovers around
Nicholson, who stretches each scene to contain
a story. Nicholson acts a storm around the
dialogue given to him, as if he is giving
the audience a acting class. It was not written
completely then it was just put together
by a committee. In the end all the chief characters shoot each other dead and thus
the title "The Departed". All scenes in this
film are badly directed because the director
didnt prepare anything. Each and every scene.
In the beginning the film misleads the audience
into thinking everything is being done deliberately to setup the story, but actually
everything is coming forward because the film's
story has many holes and nobody knows how to
present the story to the audience.