I like the storytelling.
I loathe the story.
お元気ですか?私は 元気です
Memories are, for the lack of a better word, strange. While the facts and chronology stay unchanged, one can feel differently or discover something new in the process of remembering the past. Memories can often be a source of sadness and regrets, especially when death becomes one of the facts. But we live on memories. We need them to go forward, to grow and to be.
I was thrilled when Scorsese decided to make The Departed, but I am disappointed the only discussion on this film seems to be whether it is superior/inferior to its Hollywood 'remake'. To me the two are vastly different and culturally specific, the only things in common are the skeleton of the plot, and that they are great films.
The original film title 無間道 (literally 'boundless way') came from the idea of Avici (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avici) in Buddhism, the lowest level of hell…