The Departed: damaged men and mobile phones
I loved The Departed, because I have a soft spot for Martin Scorsese, and even though his women are always appalling or disappointing (except, of course, for Ellen Burstyn in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Any More) his men are complex and damaged and conflicted enough for me to find them deeply interesting. I’ve recently cracked and finally got my first-ever mobile phone, too, so all the shenanigans with top secret texting in terrifying life-and-death situations tickled me no end.
Oh, and it features two of my favourite songs: Sweet Dreams by Patsy Cline and Gimme Shelter by the Stones. You can always depend on Scorsese for a supercool soundtrack.
Oh, and it features two of my favourite songs: Sweet Dreams by Patsy Cline and Gimme Shelter by the Stones. You can always depend on Scorsese for a supercool soundtrack.
posted by Samantha Cook | 6:16 PM
2 Comments:
I liked Children of Men because of the ambitious staging of future Britain as a war zone. It really made me feel as though I was there, in the middle of it. This is a different way of presenting the future (or the past for that matter) as 'now', and I liked being asked to make that imaginative leap of identification with other times and places, and with what others experience on a daily basis.
Great book and blog!
Thanks, Spam. I agree CoM was beautifully staged, and an original piece of film-making.
I guess we all take our baggage into the cinema with us, and the world-without-baby-is-world-doomed message felt just too close to the knuckle. My grumpiness about that clouded my vision somewhat. *And* my grumpiness about the fact that this film was raved about while DWP and Marie Antoinette faced such scathing attack.
Never said I'd be objective!
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