Shutter Island

mind games with twists and turns

Director                         : Martin Scorsese

Starring                        : Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley,  Michelle Williams

Based on novel           : Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

For those who love      : Fight Club and Memento

If you adore the works of Martin Scorsese with his golden boy, Leonardo DiCaprio and happen to love twisted movies, well, Shutter Island is a must watch. To be honest I didn’t find any interest in watching it until my friends forced me to tag along with them. Once the movie started, I couldn’t get my eyes off of the screen. The movie is actually based on a novel by Dennis Lehane, so if you’ve read it, you’d already know. But if you haven’t, you’ll experience what I experienced.

It starts off from two U.S Marshalls, Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio) and Chuck Aule (Ruffalo) on a ferry heading to an island where lies Ashecliffe prison/asylum for dangerous criminals, Shutter Island . They were sent off to investigate the whereabouts of a missing patient, Rachel Solando. Suspicion arouses the Marshalls due to the oddity they found. How could such a patient flee from a high security prison/asylum on a faraway island? They begin their investigation by questioning the prisoners and the staff, roamed around the premises and found even more oddities. Teddy Daniels felt some kind of conspiracy was happening and that the head doctors might have been hiding something from them. The mystery and conflicts deepen as a hurricane hit, leaving them trapped on the island. The two Marshalls continue their search of truth as the mystery goes on and on. What is actually happening on Ashecliffe? Can they solve the mystery and get out of the island?

The duet of Scorsese/DiCaprio plus amazing screen adaptation, this is a movie you would not want to miss. The Director of Photography made the movie’s atmosphere dreamy in a Gothic sense and the musical score was full of suspense. Be sure to keep your eyes on the screen so you wouldn’t miss a single thing.

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