I Sawr a Dead Guy
Saw The Departed for the first time the other night. Leonardo DiCaprio plays an undercover cop who pretends to work for mob-boss Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon plays a mobster working for the same boss who infiltrates the police unit investigating Nicholson's mob. Both are involved with the same woman. Hilarity ensues in South Boston! Scorsese's cut all the fat from the film- leaps of intuition are required every time the scene changes; the viewer often finds themselves taking in violence and witty banter over dinner at once, and fireworks are superimposed over funerals. The movie is 151 minutes, but feels like a marathon (in a good way). I thought (wistfully) that the story was ending four or five different times throughout, only to have it pick up a different thread and carry it for another leg. It just kept going and getting better. It was filled with meaning and symbolism and such- but never to the detriment of the acting or the action... And, like any decent pseudo-noir, it didn't stop until everyone was dead but the total asshole.