Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Run time: 138 min
In the 50s, a woman is missing from Shutter Island, a remote island off Boston, where a Civil War-era fort has been changed into an institution for the criminally insane. The noir Arkham Asylum based on the novel fof the same title from Dennis Lehane, brought to the screen by the one and only, Martin Scorsese.
To this island travel U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo). They are assigned to investigate the missing woman. How come she is gone from her locked cell and why do the institution looks spooky with people who seem to withheld secret information? What is actually going on in Shutter Island? Is there a secret experiment going on? Or is there something more?
Teddy is a clueless character, coming to the island with heavy baggage, the death if his wife in the fire and his memory of liberating Dachau concentration camp in the World War II where he see inhumane things happened.
Soon, like peeling onion layers, mysteries resolved and everyone is treated to a twist that will makes them scratch their head because this film will not just give you the easy answer because they have to fit the unfit puzzle.
Uncertainty is the key to understand this film. Martin Scorsese has successfully tease viewer's sense and take it to the endless maze. Bits by bits the viewers know more about the mysteries surrounding Shutter Island, the lines between sanity and insanity, reality and delusion began to merge.
It doesn't mean bad, since by leaving things uncertain, the director best known for Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, has proven he still has an edge in making good movies. The lensing is powerful and the editing is tight, leave no wasted time and space at all, thus make the story not draggy.
As for those who doesn't like to think, this film is confusing and not interesting at all but for those who wanted to see top notch directing and acting with twisted plots in the spirit of The Machinist, Mulholland Drive and Memento, this one is a must see this year.
If you think this film is mind boggling, wait until you see Triangle, an underrated film from 2009 which will left you dumbfounded for days and has more twist than this one.
Run time: 138 min
In the 50s, a woman is missing from Shutter Island, a remote island off Boston, where a Civil War-era fort has been changed into an institution for the criminally insane. The noir Arkham Asylum based on the novel fof the same title from Dennis Lehane, brought to the screen by the one and only, Martin Scorsese.
To this island travel U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo). They are assigned to investigate the missing woman. How come she is gone from her locked cell and why do the institution looks spooky with people who seem to withheld secret information? What is actually going on in Shutter Island? Is there a secret experiment going on? Or is there something more?
Teddy is a clueless character, coming to the island with heavy baggage, the death if his wife in the fire and his memory of liberating Dachau concentration camp in the World War II where he see inhumane things happened.
Soon, like peeling onion layers, mysteries resolved and everyone is treated to a twist that will makes them scratch their head because this film will not just give you the easy answer because they have to fit the unfit puzzle.
Uncertainty is the key to understand this film. Martin Scorsese has successfully tease viewer's sense and take it to the endless maze. Bits by bits the viewers know more about the mysteries surrounding Shutter Island, the lines between sanity and insanity, reality and delusion began to merge.
It doesn't mean bad, since by leaving things uncertain, the director best known for Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, has proven he still has an edge in making good movies. The lensing is powerful and the editing is tight, leave no wasted time and space at all, thus make the story not draggy.
As for those who doesn't like to think, this film is confusing and not interesting at all but for those who wanted to see top notch directing and acting with twisted plots in the spirit of The Machinist, Mulholland Drive and Memento, this one is a must see this year.
If you think this film is mind boggling, wait until you see Triangle, an underrated film from 2009 which will left you dumbfounded for days and has more twist than this one.
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