Anatomy of a scene: “I don’t want to be a product of my environment” in ‘The Departed’
This Far Out Magazine piece is a critical breakdown of the opening sequence in Martin Scorsese's 2006 film "The Departed," examining how the director uses Frank Costello's introduction to establish the film's themes of identity, power and inherited circumstance. Though conceived as a commercial project and an adaptation of the Hong Kong trilogy "Infernal Affairs,"…