Thread:BeholderofStuff/@comment-33014003-20171115165821

In my mind, Frank Costello is Pure Evil! Throughout The Departed, he is shown to have no honorable or redeeming features in any way, and is given no reason or justification for his actions whatsoever. In the opening scene, he shoots an innocent woman dead and laughs about how "she fell funny". Later on, when Costigan joins his organisation, he has Costigan brutalised and tortured by re-injuring his broken arm to test whether or not he's a cop, and shows no remorse for the pain he inflicted on Costigan. When having a meeting with Costigan, he tells him about a human's severed hand THAT HE KEEPS IN A BAG BELONGING TO HIM!!! He also blackmails Sullivan into trying to find the mole by threatening to have his girlfriend Madolyn raped otherwise. And don't get me started about what he did at the movie theatre!! In the end, any love he had for his men is debunked when he's revealed as an FBI informant who would rat anybody out to save himself. And by the end of the film, almost all of the main characters are dead because of him and his deeds. Throughout the film, he commits various disgusting acts of perversion and violence, shows no remorse for it, and is given no redeeming qualities. And worse? Scorsese implied in interviews for the film that he molested Colin Sullivan at a young age, traumatising the young boy, and meaning that Sullivan works for him purely out of fear. So he's an implied pedophile to top off all his other crimes! How is this scumbag not Pure Evil? 