The DepartedEssay Preview: The DepartedReport this essayThe 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 Costellos 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.
Consequently, Costigan started his career as a police officer. He is one of the police officers who were named captains of the gang Ballymen. He is a member of the Ballymen. He is also named by one of the gang’s other captains, Robert Ballymen.
It takes place in an area where there are small communities with low income poverty. Costigan manages to get a job with the local Ballymen at a company that has a store called P&G & Grocers which is located in the area of Ballymen’s. On Sunday night, March 18, Costigan and one of the other Ballymen go to an address to find his wife, Linda, at the address in The Well. So they go to his business, The Well, and find Cinna Hall, who at some point is going to be a woman who is going to lose the job. Cinna gets on the phone to CINNA and says, “I’ve come. I’ve been looking for you for a couple weeks, can I meet you at this address?” She says, “No, just go over there; and for some reason you came over. I want to meet Linda, and I’ve seen she recently and when she came over I thought there was something she wanted to meet you. She’s pretty much dead, so we got the number.”
Sometime later she runs into Costigan, dressed in a costume, and starts going over there asking her where he’s going. Costigan tells Linda he’s going get Cinna, so she goes back over with them. They go in and she takes their number. She runs through the street and finds the dead Cinna. She goes forward to where Cinna has gone. Cinna is dead so she looks in the back of Linda’s jacket, where it is. She runs out of money, tells Costigan he has to meet her, and they drive to her hotel. She goes down the street and finds Cinna’s body.
After they drive, they come across a large group of men. Cinna was kidnapped and she was tortured. A few of these men then kill her family. The rest eventually give up the fight. And when Linda finally comes to the hospital she meets Costigan and Costigan gives her a bottle of water. She tells Linda that she feels bad for him for not letting Linda go so she turns to Linda and says this is the only way she can get Cinna. So she comes out of the hospital and hears something come from behind. Then Cinna and the other Ballymen run towards her when Costigan comes out of the hospital. Costigan and Linda pull her out of the car, tell them Cinna is alive. When Linda comes out of the hospital, Cinna is gone. She gets off the motorcycle and follows it along the road. Costigan says to Linda this is the only way he can get her back to her, and that she needs a boat. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDINGS OF WOLFE MASSES FINDING CINNA)
He looks at her and says he just saw Cinna the woman he stole, and he says he will help with the car, and Cinna is going to tell him that if she wants to go to the boat she has to go by her house. He looks at her and says is that the only way her home could be saved is to go by her house and she never would have been able to find her. Meanwhile, Costigan
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 didnt seem to kill each other as much as the Italians did. This movie was also different in that it didnt really show a chain of command like the Italian videos do. The only clear leadership that was shown was the boss (Costello). The Irish didnt 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 Sullivans 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 Costigans 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, however, he was killed by another