25/04/2020
Movie Review: Shutter Island
Shutter Island is 2010, American film, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Laeta Kalogridis, based on Dennis Lehane's 2003 novel of the same name. It stars Leonardo Di Caprio, Mark Ruffalo, Michelle Williams, and Ben Kingsley as central characters.
Two US Marshals are on board a small boat, traveling to the Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane on Shutter Island in Boston Harbor.
To the colors, or the lack of them in every set. Grey, black, white, brown, taupe..and the sudden, blinding brilliance of brick red, spring green, and sunset orange.
The background music, sometimes ventures into the plot: whether it is the note of old gramophone records: or that hauntingly beautiful song at the end, in Dinah Washington's voice, "This Bitter Earth."
The movie, apparently, 'became Scorsese's second highest-grossing film worldwide' and he remarked, apparently, that he would get double the box office returns, because the viewer would have no choice, but to see it twice, to understand the plot.
In the end when he learns the truth along with the audience,
1. He relapses again and continues to reject reality. He still believes that the fantasy world he has built around is the truth and that everyone at Shutter Island is part of a conspiracy
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2. DiCaprio accepts the reality but cannot live with the horrors of it. So, he acts as if he is still living in the fantasy world so that he gets lobotomized.
Such a perfect movie. An amazing breathtaking Psychological Thriller with a plot twist. Leonardo DiCaprio never fails to deliver. This is recommended as 1 of the top 100 movies u must watch.