A paragon of parallel, cross-montage clips

Rating: 3/10 (5 November 2017)

The Departed is a U.S. cop policeman film. The film tells the story of the lives and choices of two police officers with different positions. In the two main lines, they also intertwined the two protagonists' pre character history and development context. They also discussed the internal relations of the U.S. police agencies and corruption issues, Gangster Castro's criminal problems and gang members and many other sub-lines. The director boldly expanded the film's space-time structure, staggered, pulled away, and then stitched it to create a multi-line "three-dimensional clip" structure that uses a combination of parallel, The narrative style of the perfect combination of each, firmly in control of the narrative rhythm of the film, and to sort it out in an orderly manner, without affecting the natural smoothness of the screen, so that the audience easy to accept and understand.
Throughout the narrative process, through the use of post- editing, parallel montage, montage processing is very natural and smooth, making the relationship between the characters in the story seems to have become more direct and simple, showing the effect of a very place, is a technology Very skilled example.
The film began with the theme of Colin's autobiographical narrative, the lens leads to the number one American gangster Castro, as Colin accepted gangster favor and baptism, became gangster Castro's The use of tools, admitted to school, become Costello in the police force undercover. Bill, another protagonist, has a rather complicated background. His uncle is a well-known gangster. His father is more honest. As a result of being killed by triads, he wants to become a police officer to avenge himself and therefore enters the police academy. The film narrates the two people's learning process in the police academy in the form of parallel montages. In the police academy, both of them are assigned to a like- minded supporting police school classmates, Colin is equipped with a beginning to ask him to eat classmates, Bill is accompanied by a black fat students. The appearance of these shots, but also for the final outcome of the movie paved the way. That is, the two classmates buried the two protagonists in a group-like manner.
After graduating from the police school, both Colin and Bill almost passed the different fate of the last police officer. Colin accepted the first shot assigned to the police, a vision, account of the characters in the room. Followed by several sets of close-range dialogue lens, which is some of the boss to Colin asked and placed. Then use a Bill's subjective lens to transition the screen. That is to say during the Colin interview, Bill looked down at the entrance to the interview looking at his own foot. When Colin smugly out of the sheriff's office and greet the secretary, Bill looked upstairs to greet him in the front desk. There was an ups and downs here first in Bill, and then the camera swung to Colin and came out of the open door, then the camera moved along with Colin and put Bill in the picture to make a contrast. When Bill went in, it was also a panoramic shot, followed by several sets of conversation shots. The entire clip is smooth and smooth, without much rendering and decoration, but more by the lens and the montage way to show the difference between the two fates, that is, just a few minutes before and after the difference between the two people led to a different future .
Then, Colin stepped into his newly allocated apartment, in front of the church was once baptized, he slowly whispering in his own language across the quiet Colin vacant balcony on the balcony, and Bill now accept the new police officer Open salaries and accounts, to drink with his relatives to the pub, to discuss the violence in the neighborhood, to accept the blockbuster defiance of the street, in the hope of approaching Castro in order to get his trust. Since then, the film's clips are almost always used to compare montage approach to describe the whereabouts of two people, but also by comparing montage performance techniques to describe how the two step by step, to their respective superiors to promote and trust. In addition, the comparison lens also tells the dark contest between two people for the same thing. In the film, for the simplicity of narration, the heroine becomes a psychiatrist and becomes Colin and Bill from beginning to end they have no real understanding until the last confrontation between life and death. This narrative style emphasizes the fate of the two men Wrong and chance.
The film has created a rich character image. Colin is a careful, suspicious, hand-ruthless character. Through some details of the lens to reflect his cautious work. He can become FBI informant in his own right, which is why he can go unpunished. Therefore, this role more than a domineering and brutal. And Bill's heart is kind and honest. Two people's personality just complementary, one publicity, a calm. Therefore, when the calm was killed, publicity finally killed. In addition, the film on the handling of violence is also straightforward and bloody, without any hiding, without any sensationalism. What it presents to us is a black and white, jungle world. Gangsters ruthless, the police are cruel, everything is subject to the law of survival of the strong king. Whether it is light color, or scheduling clips, are deliberately low-key, low-key to the level of unobtrusiveness. Clips are also used in parallel contrast, contrast with parallel shadow, with the most flat view and recording, neither deliberately exaggerated, nor deliberate to create elegant.