Fantastic thinking movie

Rating: 9/10 (31 October 2016)

To hold to narratives in your mind at once and never knowing which way the outcome will land. What a great movie to be able to keep both narratives plausible almost to the very end, and still knock it out the park with the final narrative.... Teddy knowing what his final choice really is, and choosing it in order to live with himself.
I loved how the director kept us thinking with the Dachau scenes that the our Marshal could just be suffering from PTSD and could still interweave the moral discussions of lobotomy versus active mental illness treatment. Loved the film, and has to be one of the best thriller movies in its genre. Up there with the likes of Memento and Usual Suspects.
If you like thinking movies and can watch this movie through the lens of Freudian-type psychology (i.e. dream like images representing subconscious thought) then the whole film becomes magic. Loved it.
Any movie that you can/need to watch twice (and is as enjoyable as the first watch) is worthy of a rating above 8, in my book.