Shutter Island by Martin Scorsese (director of The Departed, Raging Bull etc) is a thriller based on Dennis Lehane’s novel. The movie was recently released in Bombay and I had few friends recommending me, but, by the time I had the time to watch it, it disappeared from the theatres.
Last night I saw the movie at my place, and slept the entire night thinking about different kind of delusions.
Now, the movie is not that you may understand fully in a first watch and apparently you may also have many questions. But, without revealing the plot, I would rather suggest you see the movie and then confirm your doubts, if you have any.
The movie begins slow pace and then builds up several characters, plots, twists and turns. It goes with Scorsese’s characteristic style of a fast paced thriller with fair amount of brutal scenes especially where dead bodies of children are lying cold or when the children are afloat dead on the river-bed.
Special mention of few scenes which will make you jump from your seat – When the actor sees several rats coming from a cave and does the least expected thing of all, or when he calls his friend from the edge of a cliff and you may wonder whether somebody will push him from behind, or when the paranoid patients run and scurry around in the mental hospital, at the same time the movie becomes really dark and gory.
Finally, here’s the catch for you – The whole story after you see it will make you wonder about the Wow factor and how in the world did Scorsese pull out and weave such a convoluted plot with so many turns and different characters.
Watch it; you would sleep with some hallucinations, in the end.
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