Sim1Review of The Departed
May 20th 2007 23:37
Go Jack
If you’ve ever been to a wedding reception and don’t know who’s getting married cos you were a bit distracted through the first bit at the church – you’ll know how I felt in the beginning of this film. I was a bit thrown cos Leo and Matt looked like twins or something but once I got my focus happening I was 100% into the go-go.
I love that American conflict resolution thing – where you just solve everything with a bullet to the head. Imagine you’re at a party and a filmschool cry-baby comes up and tells you how he’s just got a funding grant for his next film so he can finally move to Balmain.
BANG.
You resolve the conflict.
Anyway. The Departed is performance enhanced with Nicholson more at home than I’ve seen him in a long time. Scorsese keeps a fast pace which sort of catches up with you in the end. Trust no-one and everyone dies in the end – I guess that’s a realistic life-skills theory for survival but who wants to end up an old cynical bastard…
Apparently that’s where I’m heading.
I think if I was DiCaprio I’d be happy with The Departed. After being artistically linked to Ms Dion he’d be eager to get out of the ring and back into the feakshow where the credibility really hangs out.
In a way the movie reminded me of Reservoir Dogs – not the violence but the feel. Then I read somewhere that it’s a remake of a B-grade Hong Kong film. That makes sense.
“All that killin’ and fuckin’ and no money shot”.
Ok, I added the money shot bit but you know what I mean.
Until next time and happy film-making.
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