At Last...The Truth Behind The Departed Revealed

Rating: Null/10 (30 August 2007)

After searching on the net for many minutes it seems that I alone know the true meaning of this film. At first it seems a tad fanciful but let us examine the evidence:
1) Ten years ago Scorsese made Kundun, a film about the Dalai Lama and Buddhism. The film had an uncritical acceptance of reincarnation.
2) In The Departed there are many, many mentions of people who betray their comrades being 'rats'.
3) Not strictly germane to the argument yet it should be pointed out somewhere that Nicholson's "rat" impression is one of the most embarrassing three seconds in motion picture history.
4) The Matt Damon character is a rat - perhaps the rattiest rat in the entire movie.
5) The last shot is a pan from Damon's dead body as the camera comes to rest on a rat passing by the window.
6) The implication is obvious: Damon's soul has left his body and, according to the laws of karma, taken up residence in a rat.
7)The Departed is not a hard-boiled gangster epic but actually a prime example of New Age flapdoodle.
8) Don't be surprised if Scorsese's next pic is a remake of Sisterhood of the Divine Travelling Pants (or whatever it was called).