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Films

The Departed

Eric Wills reveals how Nietzschean morality is displayed in Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning movie.

“We are all on the way out. Act accordingly.”

In his recent film The Departed, Martin Scorsese presents us with a conflict between Martin Sheen’s conventionally moral policeman and Jack Nicholson’s amoral gangster, each of whom has his own informant working undercover on the other side. Frank Costello (Nicholson) finds his protégé, Sullivan (Matt Damon), in church, and he tells him to kneel to nobody. He encourages him to join the police and be his informant.

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