Sunday, September 12, 2010

An Accurate Synopsis Of The Hit Film The Departed

By Martin Hebert

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.

While Billy is busy in spying on the Mafia, Collin Sullivan is the mafia installed spy in the law enforcing agency. Like Billy, Collin also is sharp and moves quickly up the police ranks to become a respectable special investigation unit officer. This unit is the actual operative one against the Irish American cartels receiving tips from Billy. Collins unique character of double playing the police as well as the mafia is perhaps the only thing that makes this movie stand out of the normal gangster type ones.

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 part of the film basically revolves around the revealing struggle being carried out by Collin and Bill both. One might not categorize this movie in a pure action genre, but the drama mixed with essence of suspense and thrill definitely makes this movie a unique one. These last scenes depict the ultimate struggle from both sides to save their selves from the wrath of the mafia and police by going towards a head to head fight and interaction.

The drop scenes show Billy asking Collin to leave the bad ways and opt in for the immunity and protection offered by the Police department. Collin would not give up so easily and hence finally, Billy dies at the hands of Collin during a physical fight scene.

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. - 2361

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