Billy and Colin-double lives, reaching the same goal by different routes

Hannah 2022-03-14 14:12:21

I have never watched "Infernal Affairs". I believe that many movie fans admire me. I still have three wonderful movies to watch. It is said that this series is the pinnacle of Hong Kong cinema in the new century. Now let’s talk about the American version of "Infernal Affairs". The original English name is The Departed . The deceased, my English level is average. I don’t know if there is an allusion of Infernal Affairs. It's not a matter of the sun.

At the beginning of the movie, a parallel montage was used to show the lives of Billy and Colin. Billy was an excellent police academy graduate who was arranged to go undercover in an Irish gang. Colin was funded by the gang boss Frank and inserted into the Massachusetts State Police. Both people have dual identities and lead dual lives. The tension of the gang and the police station catching the inner ghost was created too well, chasing on the street, leaving behind each other, the fate of the two was staggered and staggered. The two of them have different identities, but they ended up in the same way by different routes. Billy was a police officer because he wanted to draw a line from his native family, but he was selected as an undercover agent because of the special background of his family's involvement in criminal activities. He was an undercover gang in order to become a police officer. Like a joke of fate. Colin is a poor South Boston boy. Frank helped him climb up. He seemed to be getting closer and closer to the Golden Summit State Capitol that he yearned for. In fact, he was sinking deeper and deeper in the underworld. When he had a chance to bury the past. , He did not hesitate to kill everyone who knew his past. When Dignam killed him without hesitation by any means other than the law, his calculations were nothing but a futile task. There was a shameless mouse under the golden dome. , A wonderful irony. Two South Boston Irishmen, between the police station and the gang, have different personalities, different pursuits, the same good and the same pitiful.

As a digression, the casting of this film is too unfriendly to face-blind audiences outside Europe and the United States. Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg are the faces that American audiences often confess to. Leonardo and Nicholson really It's very similar to Leon: "I will become you when I get old", and Leon and Damon sometimes look alike, but they don’t look like faces, but sometimes in the movie they will make you dazzle.

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The Departed quotes

  • Frank Costello: What we generally do - in this country... is one guy brings the items and the other guy pays him. No tickee, no laundry!

  • Frank Costello: [over the phone] What the fuck is it with and your phone? Uh?

    Colin Sullivan: You know.