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==Boston setting==

[[File:Departedtrailerbostonskyline.JPG|right|300px|thumb|A still from the theatrical trailer: the incorporation of the Boston [[Back Bay]] skyline into the gun reinforces the film's thematic use of Boston's heritage and culture.]] Born to an [[Irish-American]] family in the Boston neighborhood of [[Dorchester, Massachusetts]], [[William Monahan]] (who adapted the screenplay from ''[[Infernal Affairs]]'') incorporates the culture and history of Boston heavily into the film. The first images are news clips from the [[Desegregation busing#Boston, Massachusetts|busing riots]] of the 1970s, over which Costello muses about the city's troubled racial history. Several times, Dignam refers to Billy as "lace curtain," a term used primarily in the Boston metropolitan area by working-class Irish-Americans to disparage upper-middle class Irish-Americans who have "strayed from their roots" in their attempt to better themselves.