Shutter Island
Up until Shutter Island, I had difficulty confirming the ingenious of Martin Scorsese. I admit that I haven’t seen all his movies, have been a big fan of Casino and been questioning why Departed was so long since I saw it on the white screen. So with mixed reviews and the possibility of an unnecessarily lengthy movie I have taken my seat in the movie theater to see Shutter Island.
Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio”s character in the movie) is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.
From the moment I saw Teddy Daniels trying to fight off seasickness on the ferry to the island, I sat on a floor of needles. Alert, disturbed, cornered, curious and extremely uncomfortable I have watched the movie to see the main character dissolve into one of the most complicated plots I have witnessed since the Game, the Sixth Sense and the Others. I couldn’t relax until the credits. The world of the insane is an unbelievable complicated maze and it takes great talent to break into it with a single shot. Scorsese takes his genius and pours it over the amazing performance by DiCaprio to explain how, why and where a world we are all frightened to observe and analyze exists without any definite exit.
There will be moments when your hands will sweat with the expectation of a scene that will never come about. You will most probably solve the equation towards the 3/4 of the movie, but you will still leave it a little perplexed and curious.