re: Question about the Departed (SPOILER ALERT I guess)

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I never understood why the old women in the hallway shunned Damon right before Wahlberg kills him.

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because he wanted to be part of that class SO much and did all sorts of evil shite to get there

and he lives with them now, is in the clear (by his perception), and is free of the mob's influence, and...he's still a piece of shite to them

it's a subtle invalidation of all the bad shite he had done

kind of like the ending/reveal of gangs of new york but much more subtle