The Departed

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• Picture 1 is setting out the time scale of where the film is at and where it is, so you get an understanding.

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• Picture 2 is off people fighting, this shows things were running smoothly and people weren’t getting along.

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• Picture 3 is a close up shot of a bus with a broken window and there is a black person behind it. The window looks as if it has been broken from a rock being thrown at it or something, this would suggest that there was racism at this time.

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• Picture 4 is a shot of police with riot helmets on lined up this means that the citizens are not happy about things and are rioting.

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• Picture 4 is an establishing shot of Boston so you get an idea of what it looks like.

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• Picture 6 is the first time you see the man talking on the voiceover through the start of this. However you do not see his face, this suggests that he is a mysterious man, they also haven’t told you his name.

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• Picture 7 a close up on the man in the shop handing money over to the mysterious man and the mysterious man sort of telling him off, this suggests that he is some sort of criminal.

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• Picture 8 is a shot of the boy looking at the mysterious man. This suggests that he has a main role in this scene.

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• Picture 9 is a shot of the man holding the little boys hand after giving him groceries and change. Which shows the man to be quite nice and supporting.