Tonight at 11.10 pm on Sky Cinema Due, “The Departed – Good and Evil”, a film directed in 2006 by Martin Scorsese. Remake of “Infernal Affairs”, an Asian opera shot in 2002 by Andy Lau and Alan Mak, the film tells the story of Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson), boss of the Boston Irish underworld who infiltrates the police with his brilliant godson Colin Sullivan ( Matt Damon): Colin soon becomes one of the most prominent detectives of the special anti-crime unit. Costello discovers that there is also an infiltrator among his men: the Massachusetts police have in fact adopted the same strategy by recruiting Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio), a young man raised in the criminal suburbs of the American metropolis, to carry out an undercover operation and frame Frank. Despite Billy constantly informing the police of the boss’s illicit affairs, the agents’ blitzes always fail because Detective Sullivan manages to inform the gangster in time. At this point the two moles Costigan and Sullivan have the same mission: to track down the other to survive. “The Departed” is a high-paced detective thriller full of suspense and twists. As the title states, the work wants to reflect on the ambivalence of good and evil, but the plot insists too much on the game of mirrors between the two protagonists-moles, who not only come from the same environment and both seem “in search of a father figure “(Colin is Costello’s godson, Billy builds a similar relationship with police chief Queenan) but they even get to have a relationship with the same woman, psychologist Madolyn (Vera Farmiga). However the film is shot perfectly, the actors are in a state of grace and, as often happens in Scorsese’s works, in the end there is no redemption. The film achieves a great success at the box office: it cost 90 million dollars, collects 291 and wins 4 Oscars (Best Film, Best Director, Best Non-Original Screenplay and Best Editing). Waiting for the broadcast, here are 21 things you may not know.
24th August 2022 | 08:04
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