Shutter Island
Shutter Island is Martin Scorsese doing his thriller thing. It is based on a Dennis Lehane novel as if that means anything to you. Lehane did a few novels that have been turned into movies perhaps you’ve heard of Mystic River or of Gone Baby Gone. He’s a man of New England, and Scorsese is a man of New York. How does this affect any thing? I don’t know but my review is suddenly going off the rails into a different reality…
Shutter Island is about two federal marshals conducting a manhunt on the eponymous island mental institution looking for an escaped patient. She was supposed to have disappeared without a trace. The wardens have no idea what happened.
Unfortunately, it may take you awhile to figure out what the twists and turns in the movie’s plot. Or if you’ve watched a lot of movies, you’ll expect the unexpected.
Scorsese works in a genre that seems out of his interests. But, he did do the Val Lewton retrospective for Universal. And he does bring some of the extraordinary creepiness that was trademark of Lewton. In fact, the strangeness of the film reminded me of The Curse of the Cat People. It’s not what it seems which was the same for both films.
One thing: don’t watch with your psychiatrist mom she’ll know everyone’s crazy and complain that it’s just like work.
3 of 5 stars.
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Ha ha ha man mom is hilarious.