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The Departed is a 2006 American crime thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese. The screenplay by William Monahan was based on the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, and Mark Wahlberg, with Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Anthony Anderson, and Alec Baldwin in supporting roles.
It won several awards, including four Oscars at the 79th Academy Awards; Best Picture, Best Director (Scorsese), Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film Editing. Wahlberg was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
The film takes place in Boston, Massachusetts, where Irish Mob boss Francis "Frank" Costello plants Colin Sullivan as an informant within the Massachusetts State Police. Simultaneously, the police assign undercover cop William "Billy" Costigan to infiltrate Costello's crew. When both sides realize the situation, each man attempts to discover the other's true identity before his own cover is blown.
Colin Sullivan (Damon) is introduced to organized crime by Irish mobster Frank Costello (Nicholson) in the Irish neighborhood of South Boston. Costello trains him to become a mole inside the Massachusetts State Police. Sullivan is accepted into the Special Investigations Unit, which focuses on organized crime. Before he graduates from the police academy, Billy Costigan (DiCaprio) is asked by Captain Queenan (Sheen) and Staff Sergeant Dignam (Wahlberg) to go undercover, as his family ties to organized crime make him a perfect infiltrator. He drops out of the academy and does time in prison on a fake assault charge to increase his credibility.
[ Lyrics: Milad Tangshir ]
Midnight again, pale moon is posing
Crawling in veins, hard times of choosing
Reinventing my broken dreams
Sacrifice
He buries it, my poor dream
He is coming to take it away
He comes to burn my sight
Like every day and every other nights
I should sit here in the dark
And watch him fades,
With my bleeding eyes
Midnight again, waking in an electric vision
Running in woods, from inner damnation
These last of dreams, oh no please
Feed them worms
Can't let him burn, my poor dream
Hidden be thy name
That's the deal with the devil, Yeah!
He comes to burn my sight
Like every day and every other nights
I should sit here in the dark
And watch him fades,