Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?

Rating: 8/10 (19 October 2015)

Well, pretty much good, better, best and worst has been said about this movie in 950+ reviews and it's kind of rare that reviews are somehow divided because as it happened after watching this movie my friend and I was totally engrossed and left the theater not knowing what really hit us. Because we were not prepared for anything like this from Scorsese or Dicaprio, we know they both are capable but not on this scale. At the same time two other friends outrightly rejected this movie as anything but great. So, that's how the audience would be divided you either liked it or you hate it. Also, those who don't like it much doesn't mean they don't get this movie or they don't know how to decide the movie, I believe they don't want something this hard to take it easy. They must enjoy comedy and light tragedy, but not something of this scale. Because I know my friends they can't digest dark movies with lots of emotions, emotions that involve tragedy, not some dog got killed and like that. And, by GOD from first shot to last shot this movie getting bleaker and bleaker until the last line which not only sums up the entire movie, but, it was so sad and bleak that I couldn't able to get off the seat even after it finished for few Min's.
Making a tragic and dark movies is one thing, but making people feel the atmosphere, hopelessness, emptiness, the coldness, the suffocation feeling is not everyone's cup of tea, but Scorsese nailed it and you can almost start feeling yourself in that asylum and confined in that wall, you could almost feel the wet and cold walls of that Island and couldn't help yourself but look for an air to breathe.
Mind that I didn't say a word about the story or what that movie is all about. It's about the human mind and complexity of human relation.
Also, most important if you watch this movie as simply like Paranormal activity kind of horror, then you will wouldn't get the point or movie at all. At the same time if you don't give attention to the overall atmosphere, the time period, especially the dialog then you would definitely miss the movie and that's happening with my friend they totally missed the point because they watched it unprepared like any other horror movie genre. But, this movie is not a horror movie in a sense, but, it's scary to the core, not jump scary, but you would question the life of human and what human is capable of.
Each and every dialogue are weighted and worth every second, but few of the dialog just stayed with me.
When Warden told Teddy: If I was to sink my teeth into your eye right now, would you be able to stop me before I blinded you? Teddy said give it a try with a look. My goodness, that shows the true human nature.
But the best one as per me is the one before credit rolls.
When Teddy finally realized who he was and why he was here and his real identity, he looked at Chuck and said: Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?