Shutter Island Makes Many Surprising Twists And Turns

Rating: 10/10 (29 October 2011)

Shutter Island is a best-selling novel by Dennis Lehane.A film adaptation was made by director Martin Scorsese that stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Teddy Daniels, Mark Ruffalo as Chuck Aule, Ben Kingsley as Dr. Cawley, and Max von Sydow as Dr. Naehringwas.
The film opens in 1954 as World War II veteran and current federal marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck, ferry to Shutter Island, a water-bound mental hospital housing the criminally insane. They have been asked to investigate the disappearance of Rachel Solando ,a patient admitted to the asylum after she murdered her three children. As Teddy quizzes Dr. Cawley, the head of the institution, he begins to suspect that the authorities in charge might not be giving him the whole truth, and that a terrible fate may befall all the patients in the spooky Ward C -- a unit devoted to the most heinous of the hospital's inmates. Complicating matters further, Teddy has a secret of his own -- the arsonist who murdered his wife is incarcerated on Shutter Island. Driven to confront his wife's killer, and stranded on the island because of a hurricane, Teddy must unravel the secrets of the eerie place before succumbing to his own madness.
The movie is a brilliant and intelligent one.It keeps the viewer guessing to the end and then it miraculously makes the guessing somewhat pay off.It tries to make a fool out of you but in the end it should be categorized as a flashy thriller and a smart one as well that maybe far comparable from any magic trick about what is real or what is delusion and what is monstrous or what is decent.Overall,it is one engaging and highly entertaining movie.