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When U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, what starts as a routine investigation quickly takes a sinister turn. As the investigation unfolds and Daniels uncovers more shocking and terrifying truths about the island, he also learns there are some places that never let you go.
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LibraryThing member comfypants
A US Marshall investigates an isolated institute for the criminally insane.
It's like he made a huge list of things he liked in other movies, and just strung them together. I would have given it just a C, but the song over the closing credits is good enough to make the other two hours worth sitting
Concept: B
Story: D
Characters: B
Dialog: B
Pacing: D
Cinematography: C
Special effects/design: D
Acting: B
Music: A
Enjoyment: C plus
GPA: 2.3/4
It's like he made a huge list of things he liked in other movies, and just strung them together. I would have given it just a C, but the song over the closing credits is good enough to make the other two hours worth sitting
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through.Concept: B
Story: D
Characters: B
Dialog: B
Pacing: D
Cinematography: C
Special effects/design: D
Acting: B
Music: A
Enjoyment: C plus
GPA: 2.3/4
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LibraryThing member Familiar_Diversions
This takes place in 1954. U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels and his new partner Chuck Aule travel to Shutter Island, the site of the Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane. They've been sent there to investigate the disappearance of Rachel Solando, a woman who ended up at Ashecliffe after drowning
Teddy has an additional goal: finding Andrew Laeddis, who he suspects is an unreported extra patient at the hospital. Laeddis was responsible for Teddy's wife's death in a fire, and although he swears to Chuck that he isn't planning to kill Laeddis if he can manage to find him, it seems doubtful that he's telling the truth.
Various details, as well as the somewhat "off" behavior of several of the hospital staff and patients, lead Teddy to believe that the head of the hospital, psychiatrist Dr. John Cawley, is hiding things, and he's determined to get to the bottom of it all. But in a place like Shutter Island, is there anyone, even himself, that he can really trust?
This movie took me two days to get through. It wasn't bad, necessarily, but it took a while to grab my attention. I was uninterested in Teddy and his hallucinations about his wife. Those two needed to get a room, which is a weird thing to have to say considering that she was technically dead.
The story picked up as Teddy gained more and more reasons to doubt the motives of everyone around him, but when the biggest twists were finally revealed, my reaction was something along the lines of "that's it?" I kept waiting for something else to be revealed, but no, that really was it. The setup was...a pretty big stretch. I did think, however, that Teddy's final line was excellent and chilling.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)
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her three children.Teddy has an additional goal: finding Andrew Laeddis, who he suspects is an unreported extra patient at the hospital. Laeddis was responsible for Teddy's wife's death in a fire, and although he swears to Chuck that he isn't planning to kill Laeddis if he can manage to find him, it seems doubtful that he's telling the truth.
Various details, as well as the somewhat "off" behavior of several of the hospital staff and patients, lead Teddy to believe that the head of the hospital, psychiatrist Dr. John Cawley, is hiding things, and he's determined to get to the bottom of it all. But in a place like Shutter Island, is there anyone, even himself, that he can really trust?
This movie took me two days to get through. It wasn't bad, necessarily, but it took a while to grab my attention. I was uninterested in Teddy and his hallucinations about his wife. Those two needed to get a room, which is a weird thing to have to say considering that she was technically dead.
The story picked up as Teddy gained more and more reasons to doubt the motives of everyone around him, but when the biggest twists were finally revealed, my reaction was something along the lines of "that's it?" I kept waiting for something else to be revealed, but no, that really was it. The setup was...a pretty big stretch. I did think, however, that Teddy's final line was excellent and chilling.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)
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I love movies that you can watch over and over again, and see it in a different light, with a different perspective, each time. Movies that show you something new nearly every time you watch them - that's the mark of a great movie. Shutter Island is one of those movies, in my opinion.
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Publication
Paramount (2012)
Original publication date
2010