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Shutter Island
USA 2010
produced by
Bradley J. Fischer, Mike Medavoy, Arnold Messer, Martin Scorsese, Chris Brigham (executive), Laeta Kalogridis (executive), Dennis Lehane (executive), Gianni Nunnari (executive), Louis Phillips (executive) for Phoenic Pictures, Sikelia Productions, Appian Way/Paramount
directed by Martin Scorsese
starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Jackie Earle Haley, Ted Levine, John Carroll Lynch, Elias Koteas, Robin Bartlett, Christopher Denham, Nellie Sciutto, Joseph Sikora, Curtiss Cook, Raymond Anthony Thomas, Joseph McKenna, Ruby Jerins, Tom Kemp, Bates Wilder, Lars Gerhard, Matthew Cowles, Jill Larson, Ziad Akl, Dennis Lynch, John Porell, Aidan Cole Mitchell, Drew Beasley, Joseph P. Reidy, Bree Elrod, Thomas B. Duffy, Ken Cheeseman, Steve Witting, Michael E. Chapman, Keith Fluker, Darryl Wooten, Michael Byron, Gary Galone, Gabriel Hansen
screenplay by Laeta Kalogridis, based on the novel by Dennis Lehane, music supervised by Robbie Robertson, cinematography by Robert Richardson
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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US Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonadro DiCaprio) and his new partner Chuck
Aule (Mark Ruffalo) are sent to an island that houses a high security
hospital for the criminally insane, run by Dr. Cawley (Ben Kingsley) and
Dr. Naehring (Max von Sydow), to investigate the rather inexplicable
disappearance of an inmate/patient, Rachel (in different incarnations
played by Emily Mortimer and Patricia Clarkson), who after having drowned
her children is deemed extremely dangerous. Thing is, she can't have left
the island, but the institution's security personnel have so far failed to
track down even the slightest clue of her. The other thing is, Teddy and
Chuck, when investigating, experience more and more resistance from
Cawley, Naehring and the stuff as such to actually support them.
Eventually, we learn that there's a deeper reason why Teddy even came to
the island, because he suspects the pyromaniac who killed his wife
(Michelle Williams) being a secret inmate, and his wife appears in his
nightmares to kind of guide him, nightmares that also stem from when he
joined the liberation of the concentration camp in Dachau back in World
War II. That's why he also wants to find another inmate, George Noyce
(Jackie Earle Haley), who has information that the institution on this
very island conducts human experiments, just like the Nazis did in Dachau.
But before his investigations lead to anywhere, there's a power outage due
to a hurricane, and all hell breaks loose on the island as pretty much all
inmates escape their cells to wreak havoc, and Teddy and Chuck can only
try to do their best to stay out of harm's way while continuing their work
- which leads to Chuck falling off some cliffs to his death, while Teddy
finds Rachel in a cave, who tells him she was actually a doctor in the
institution, but since she questioned the methods applied here, she was
demoted to patient status to hush things up. Eventually, everything comes
together in Teddy's mind, and he's looking for an opportunity to confront
Doc Cawley with the truth - but is instead confronted with his own truth,
and it's not pretty ... Now I have to say up front, I did not
enjoy the resolution of this movie, it's as clichéed as it's forced and
seems a bit like an easy way out. But apart from that, Shutter Island's
pretty much a masterpiece, the writing's sharp and never ceases to push
things, the camerawork is excellent and only helped by great locations,
the directorial effort shows a master director still on top of his game
after over 40 years in the business, and the cast is top notch for sure.
And despite the letdown at the end, this is still essential viewing!
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