The Departed: Twists, Turns, and Burns

This movie was classically one of the best Martin Scorsese has ever made. It's only four years old. That alone should tell you it is going to be a classic for movie enthusiast for a long time to come. With a star studded cast including Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, and Anthony Anderson. All of which have had lead roles of their own.

Mr. DiCaprio has played the lead role in all of Scorsese's best films including Gangs of New York, The Aviator, and most recently Shutter Island. They have made masterpieces together. With The Departed near the top, only rivaled by the recent release of Shutter Island.

I will not go into the film and tell you about it. To do so would be an injustice to the film. Go watch it. Experience it. The end will blow your mind.

What I will tell you is that this movie has more twists, turns, and burns of it's characters more so than any other film I, or many of my movie buff friends, have ever seen.

So it got me thinking about life, and how like the movie has twists and turns, so does life. We all expect so many things and they never come to being. The way a situation can take a turn right in front of your face is amazing at times. It can be good, or bad, but one thing that's for sure is it is always unexpected.

My Dad always told me that life rarely goes as planned and if you let yourself get into the bad situations you are going to be burned. No one wants to be burned. So I have tried to live my life in avoidance of such situations in which my involvement might burn a friendship or relationship. In the past two years I haven't done the best with involving my self in such situations. Granted everything has mainly worked itself out now. The past two years have sucked.

Why don't we all just expect the unexpected?

If only that worked. It never seems to. Because even when expecting the unexpected sometimes we will get what is expected. That just throws us on another loop in itself.

So in life I find that we just have to accept the twists, go with the turns, and avoid the burns. Then we can save such events for the movies like The Departed. Then we can enjoy them just a little bit more.