The Departed Themes

In their own ways, all of the main characters in The Departed have a lot of ambition. Frank Costello wants to be the best mob lord he can be, and Colin Sullivan wants to rise through the ranks of t...

If you want to be an undercover informant, it doesn't matter if you're working for the cops or for the mob: you have to be clever either way if you're going to avoid getting caught. Billy and Colin...

In The Departed, Frank Costello wishes he could have a son, but he's physically incapable of producing one. That's why he likes to take young men like Colin and Billy under his wing and treat them...

We hope we not spoiling anything for you by saying there are one or two criminals in The Departed. Yeah, well, sorry, but there are. They might be drug dealers, murderers, or informants for the mob...

A lot of The Departed centers on the single neighborhood of Southie, where the community is really Irish and really tight. And by tight, we mean that a dude named Frank Costello pretty much runs th...