The Departed | Fractured Masculinity

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Written, narrated and edited by Eric Nye.
Intro logo design and animation by Ciara Waggoner.
Intro music: "Klonopin Got Me Again". by O Odious Ones
#thedeparted #Scorsese #MartinScorsese

[@TySoVm]

Your content is criminally underrated.

[@alibaghdady2916]

I second that statement!

[@keithridlen7122]

100%

[@lelandmains3827]

str8 up

[@John_Malka-tits]

Kinda bland if you ask me

[@GemR38]

The point you made about the villians of the story not having sons and the heroes having them made me think of Macbeth. Macbeth's murderous ambition may have made him king but he had no heir and it was Banquo who's sons went on to carry the throne and legacy through future generations.

[@AlexKB1111]

This was excellent, possibly the best video analysis of The Departed I’ve ever seen on KZbin. You make your points clearly and give examples to back up your interpretations. Hope this gets more views!

[@John_Malka-tits]

Bro you new here?

[@thomasgibbons6008]

Great video , once again. As you know, I absolutely love The Departed but I've never thought of it in these terms. Keep up the good work!

[@bev9708]

Just excellent, bloody well done!!!!!! Yeah I watched this soooooo many times many years ago, such an outstanding film with incredible performances , where Leo definitely should've gotten his first Oscar!

[@witcheroo833]

I found you Quantum of Solace and Spectere review and i couldnt agree more on it! You found the perfect words for why Quantum is such an amazing movie and Spectere isnt and will check out more of your videos. Earned a new sub. :D

[@zaidlacksalastname4905]

Fantastic video, I loved it!

[@jeffhidalgo8457]

Great analysis! Keep up the fine work! Cheers!

[@skeptical__x]

Your content is criminally underrated indeed

[@John_Malka-tits]

How? There is zero synthesis? It's like hearing someone talk about the departed who hates the departed? What is underrated about that?

[@danzigmcnaniel5226]

Hey man, I know how much effort you put into these videos, and I'm sure it's difficult to justify putting so much time into something when you're not yet getting the views your content deserves. But please keep producing. You have a serious knack and talent and an individual voice in an endless sea of video essays. And that's a rare thing and it would be tragic to squander. It's not too niche, it just hasn't been widely discovered... yet. Your videos on the Fargo seasons were truly masterful. Thank you🙏🏿

[@FallopiumFilms]

Needed this. Thanks

[@artlovepeace42]

Can’t upvote this enough! This was just another INCREDIBLE lense to view another great movie or show by. Have watched this movie countless times and have watched nearly all videos about it and this still had a brand new way to look at this film. I think it’s a true marker of a great piece of art, if you’re able to go back to it and see it through countless different lenses.

[@stussyneo2]

What a great insight now I can watch it with a different viewpoint

[@prabhnoorhans9765]

Extremely well done.

[@luless666]

no

[@kaesy24]

You guys are fucking amazing! Super underrated you guys are one of my many inspirations

[@peterlundholm9633]

This is just absolutely masterful analysis. Bravo.

[@FallopiumFilms]

Thank you

[@luless666]

Only masterful if you attended gender studies

[@falsesatsuma]

In Bruges always cheers me up, love a deep murder tale.

[@FallopiumFilms]

I agree. I still haven’t watched his new film but I’m looking forward to it

[@darioscomicschool1111]

Thank you so much for this One. I didn't know this Movie runs so deep. 13:48 Exquisite Observation. XX

[@bat123ice]

This is amazing content!

[@jamesbubbastewartjr]

Amazing breakdown. Unraveling the subconscious of the movie. 🙌

[@Harry-ij6dx]

Great video

[@Joe-jz8hf]

This is a great video; keep putting out great content and you will blow up at some point for sure

[@John_Malka-tits]

Like pink mist blow up? I'd give that a "like"

[@Arkhestra]

6:05 call it a montage but that was amazingly edited, really good timing for the cuts too

[@delightschwartz2155]

I have always revered this movie for multiple reasons and watch it at least annually, yet didn't really understand why, until I found a piece someone wrote that stated that Anerican Beauty serves as an antithesis, a rebuttal and contradictory sequel to Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita, which is another favorite of mine. This was a huge revelation for me and when i took time to think about that theory, I found that it rang absolutely true for me. Humbert is modernized and diluted into the native American born downtrodden character of Lester. Both characters fight their given fight to their respective ends, of how to reconcile expectations versus reality. Although Lester never gets his Lolita as Humbert did, he finally understands and accepts why that can't happen and he accepts it before his death. When I put these two seemingly unrelated things together, i find that its the best explanation of why the American dream can be so heartbreaking and treacherous, yet still simultaneously beckoning with hope and beauty in its grasp upon us.

[@wuoma]

Great stuff, subscribed to the channel for this. I watched a couple of your other videos but this made be click the subscribe button.

[@charityblackerby5920]

Interesting video, hope you’re doing better

[@nikkywalks9271]

brilliant fucking video. well done.

[@John_Malka-tits]

Brilliant doesn't mean much across the pond does it?

[@lewstone5430]

A Bug or a Feature Productions, it doesn’t.

[@amazingburo550]

Great analysis. Bravo. And there is a cross that mark ghe death of Frank Costello/Nicholson, the first time we see him in shadows in the garagae, there is a metal/iron structure at the begiinning of the lateral shot, bearly a second. But that shows Costello is doomed. He wait for death like all of us.

[@John_Malka-tits]

Have you ever done any reading on the idea of a "universal edipal complex"? It's an interesting and misunderstood theory theory- pretty relevant to the topics of this video. The bugaboos about toxic masculinity and what it means to be a socially acceptable male are deep seated questions to the human condition. I'd also recommend anything lacan has to say about the phallus as a signifier for castration. I'm sure your undergrad language arts professor would give this video a A- For this video but I think you can do better.

[@FallopiumFilms]

I never took a language arts class. I went for psychology. So yeah, I know Lacan and I know of masculinity's role in the human condition. And I got C's in school, so I'll consider your comment a compliment. If you want A+ work, see my videos on the films I'm more passionate about. If you still consider me an undergrad language arts student after watching them... then I don't know what to tell you.

[@John_Malka-tits]

@@FallopiumFilms I think you need to work on your theses.

[@FallopiumFilms]

@@John_Malka-tits so you're saying all my videos are bad then?

[@John_Malka-tits]

@@FallopiumFilms The phallus signifies castration. It doesn't signify the penis. It signifies a feeling of malehood being an accessory that is, in the symbolic realm, dawned and doffed. Maleness univeserally is experienced through the phallus signifier. Women come of age when they start bleeding- Boys come of age to men by being initiated and "dawning" the mask or the phallus. Frauds universal oedopus complex ties into that idea of masculinity being A.) Something that exists outside your male body as a role or symbol. B.) That not everyone can have access to the status of malehood that there are gatekeepers C.) Until there is insurrection against the fathers authority. It is barely an analysis to say "Men are bad" or "the old way of men doing things was wrong or bad" Cause like, what do you do about it? If your thesis is :"masculinity in departed is bad because toxic" The antithesis should be something like "hear are the right way to be masc that aren't toxic" And the natural synthesis would be, "here is what these themes could have looked like if they weren't so toxic" I'm not saying that's the right way to do it- I'm saying there was no conclusion because there was no tension set up because the thesis was weak to start with. I'm gonna be charitable and pick something that I feel was almost dialogic. "The father figure is toxic because he feels the impotance of his masculinity" So how should he feel about his real and symbolic castration as a man? It's easy to say he's bad and mean and cause his pp don't work- But the crown of manhood can't be shared by all the men- Especially if we are uninitiated. We depend on older males to "inform" our mask of masculinity. Women don't want you- they want the mask their fathers left them. Women's castration is a thing that's sublimated by having relationships with men. Castration isn't just a thing that happens to bad guys in bad movies- Castration, as lecan put it, is signified by the relationship to the phallus. Or as you might deride the phenomenon: fractured masculinity. I'm not trying to write your video for you, it just felt too lazy to be a good essay and not funny enough to be a popcorn review. Don't be afraid to challenge an audience. There's enough soilent content on the net. I see you having an innovative vision if you work on it.

[@John_Malka-tits]

@@FallopiumFilms I have only watched this one. I'm gonna watch the rest. Don't worry I'm not gonna give a shit ton of notes on all of them. Today's my day off and I'm thinking about starting video essays and yours gives me alot of inspiration so far

[@JFDA5458]

Interesting analysis of this film. One thing I find curious is how Billy Costigan's mother and father ever got together given their different social classes and status?

[@FallopiumFilms]

True, usually when people from different classes partner up, it’s the woman moving up the ladder

[@John_Malka-tits]

Also didn't notice the "X" motif. I think it's Hella significant of femininity. You have a good eye for analysis, nice work bro.

[@iwonderwhatcouldhappen5754]

When I finished this movie for the first time i was just convinced they were all tryna stay in the closet as long as possible all of em😂

[@Great_PatBingsoo]

I usually hate video essays, but my God if you didn’t hit every proverbial nail on the head (with the exception of the molestation background; too tenuous). Bro, every piece of this was objectively accurate. The fragile masculinity, Madeline’s predilection to seek out broken men, exemplified through your astute observation of her nonplussed reaction to Colin’s contrived displeasure with the food and French reference.

[@John_Malka-tits]

So you have to be molested to be homophobic? That sounds kinda homophobic.. Russia uses the fear of "the gay pedo" to be pass homophobic laws. This video is what is sounds like to hear someone crank off and have a hategasm at a fine movie.

[@alexanderbrandt4589]

I like your videos

[@FallopiumFilms]

I like your comment

[@orsonlannister9847]

Macabre Storytelling made a good case as to "Why The Departed Sucks". I'm not sure I agree but when he makes the case, it's pretty compelling. And I'm aware that it's based on Infernal Affairs. I only mention it because I like smaller channels like yours and Macabre Storytelling (which has fairly recently become pretty big, hopefully yours will go that way too) and noticed that channel's latest upload is why it "sucks" (redux).

[@John_Malka-tits]

The departed is a great movie. . Unless yer a fyaaaaag

[@TonyFontaine1988]

Toxic masculinity doesn't exist.

[@lewstone5430]

If you’re exploring masculinity, toxic masculinity and/or toxic femininity it would’ve been necessary to define these terms first. However you may have purposely bypassed this step because defining these terms would’ve been too complex or socio-politically distasteful for you.

[@FallopiumFilms]

Who is going to watch this and need more defined? I think most will get it. Which is good enough for me

[@falsesatsuma]

I think you are based, not based on this video alone but based on your others and the movies you base them on. Cheers, that is all.

[@FallopiumFilms]

Lol first time I’ve heard this

[@chanclerwalls2739]

Never ever considered the film to be an allegory for masculinity. I mean, I was 22 when this was released, I just thought it was a perfect crime drama. But it's all there, wow. Thank you for this. Great vid.

[@luless666]

Because its not

[@chanclerwalls2739]

@luless666 now what's your counter-argument?

[@greghuffman3061]

defarted

[@FallopiumFilms]

Detarded

[@Kumurajiva]

sick sick sick stuff, im glad i didn't watch the movie when it came out, what a binary world that is.

[@John_Malka-tits]

That movie came out like 30 years ago. We're you not living in a binary in the 90s? I'm beginning to think toxic masculinity existed to prevent historical amnesia

[@TonyFontaine1988]

​​@@John_Malka-tits 30 years ago? 2006, clown. Toxic masculinity doesn't exist

[@Gglsucksbigballz]

Thought you had to know something about masculinity in order to speak to it….

[@FallopiumFilms]

Alright, where are we fighting?

[@John_Malka-tits]

I was thinking the same think the whole video, David. You really hit the nail on the head

[@John_Malka-tits]

@@FallopiumFilms you have to know something about fighting before you can take part, twinkeltoes.

[@davenelso9614]

rubbish