The Departing Sarah

The Faithful Departed, originally uploaded by andebos.

Sneaking into movies has never quite been my thing and last night would prove no otherwise. My good friend Sarah is enjoying her last few nights before leaving Boston, possibly for good, and returning to the west coast. Thursday night was her "farewell and goodbye" party, Friday morning she joined the boys for breakfast downtown, and last night her and I travelled out to the burbs of Somerville to watch The Departed. We faced a dilemna when we realized Stranger Than Fiction was also opening....our solution was solved with the perfect schedule of show times, as our movie got out we would depart and sneakily enter the next movie with the line awaiting to go inside. If you've seen The Departed then you understand why we had little desire to see another movie immediately afterwards, especially if you're a Bostonian. The movie, portraying aspects of Whitey Bulger and fellow crime associates, was packed with intensity right to the last minute. The score was excellent, the twists and turns, characters, acting, analogies, references, everything was well done and it's the first movie where Leo impressed me. A worthwhile movie to view with my friend as she "faithfully departs," but not to purgatory, unless you consider that to be Seattle, then maybe. I'll miss Sarah as she is one of those once in a lifetime, one of a kind, girls and friend. Nonetheless, I do believe she will return after she finishes what lies ahead of her.

"Now I got that feeling once again. I cant explain, you would not understand. This is not how I am. I have become comfortably numb."