The Departed

The Departed was very interesting movie. There was, of course, a lot of cussing and a lot of violence, but overall it was a good movie! The movie began with 2 men graduating from the Massachusetts police academy. One man, William Costigan, was assigned to go undercover to work for the Irish mob boss Frank Costello. The other man, Colin Sullivan grew up idolizing Frank Costello and working for him since he was young. He went through the academy and graduated but is actually working as a rat for Frank Costello. Costello begins to smell a rat in his team (Costigan) and the police department thinks there is a rat on their team (Sullivan). Sullivan is assigned to find the rat on the police force which actually ended up being him. He ends up searching for the rat on Costello’s team (Costigan). Costigan ends up getting killed by Sullivan who also killed Costello so he would not be given up as the rat on the police squad.

This movie was very different than the Italian mobster movies that I have watched lately. The Italians seem to kill a lot more than the Irish in their movies. The Irish didn’t seem to kill each other as much as the Italians did. This movie was also different in that it didn’t really show a chain of command like the Italian videos do. The only clear leadership that was shown was the boss (Costello). The Irish didn’t seem to be as much of a “family” as the Italians. The Italians were very respectful to their under boss and especially their boss but the Irish seemed to be more loose with the over ranking officials.

I like the fact that there was actually a love story in this movie. Costigan fell for Sullivan’s girlfriend when he was her patient, but neither knew that she was sleeping with the other. It was quite a twisted mess. It was eventually revealed to the girlfriend that to her actual boyfriend, Sullivan, was in the mob by Costigan. It was very sad that Costigan got shot. I understood Costigan’s predicament in that on of the only people that knew he was undercover was killed and the other was on leave. He could not prove that he was actually a police officer so if he had been arrested by the police while working the Costello he would have done time like the actual felons. Costigan ended up having to kidnap Sullivan after he figured out that he was the mole in the police force. Before Costigan could get Sullivan to the police,