"Shutter Island " is simply a masterpiece..

Rating: 10/10 (23 April 2020)

The shutter island.(2010).

Cast by : Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark ruffalo, Ben kingsley, Max Von Sydow and Richelle Williams.
Directed by : Martin Scorses
Synopsis: Shutter island is a 2010
American neo-noir psychological ..thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Laeta Kalogridis..Released on February 19, 2010.In which Leonardo DiCaprio stars as U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels, who is investigating a psychiatric facility on Shutter Island after one of the patients goes missing. Mark Ruffalo plays his partner officer; Ben Kingsley is the facility's lead psychiatrist; Max von Sydow is a German doctor; and Michelle Williams is Daniels's wife.
Review:
It is one of the best movies made by director Martin Scorsese. It is perhaps the best movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Honestly speaking, it is one of the greatest films of the decade.
"Shutter Island" is simply a masterpiece. The beginning of the movie suggests a very basic plot of a detective story, possibly a thriller. As the movie progresses, the plot becomes bigger and bigger with more and more complexity added to it. The way this happens is incredible. The placing is really good. That is what makes the movie so interesting. And, even though the movie gets more complex, it is not difficult to keep up with the major plot points. And, the final twist is one of the best plot twists I have ever seen.
In 1954, federal marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) arrive on Shutter Island, a treatment facility outside of Boston for the criminally insane, to search for an escaped murderess. Haunted by past images from Nazi concentration camps and visions of his dead wife (Michelle Williams), Teddy has another, more personal reason to visit the island. Unfortunately, he soon discovers that there might be far more sinister things going on, and that doctors Cawley (Ben Kingsley) and Naehring (Max von Sydow), may be involved in some kind of hideous experiment. But even if Teddy can find proof, will he ever get off the island?
Teddy has a dream where his dead wife Dolores tells him that Rachel is "still here." Believing that Rachel had help escaping, Teddy interviews the other patients in her group therapy sessions, but learns nothing. Marooned in a shelter during a storm, Teddy tells Chuck that the arsonist who killed his wife, Andrew Laeddis, should be at Ashecliffe, but is seemingly missing. Teddy also reveals that he interviewed a former Ashecliffe patient named George Noyce, who told him that Ashecliffe is conducting illicit experiments on political subversives. Chuck worries that the men have been lured to the island and are being set up by Cawley.
Teddy learns that Ashecliffe has 66 patients, believing Andrew Laeddis to be the 67th. When Rachel Solando turns up alive, Teddy interviews her, but fails to understand a seemingly delusional story she tells him about "swimming in the lake." Teddy suffers a migraine and dreams of Rachel, three dead children, a scarred man he believes to be Andrew Laeddis, and Dolores, who tells him to find Laeddis. Teddy wakes up and goes searching for Laeddis with Chuck in Ward C, where Ashecliffe houses the most dangerous patients. Teddy attacks one patient, and follows a voice until he finds a badly scarred George Noyce, who tells Teddy his investigation is fake and to leave Dolores behind. Noyce also tells Teddy that Laeddis is being kept in the lighthouse.
Disturbed by Noyce's words, Teddy becomes suspicious of Chuck and heads toward the lighthouse alone but cannot reach it due to the high tide. In a nearby cave, Teddy finds an older woman he believes to be the real Rachel Solando.
The movie is dark and psychologically engrossing. Yet it does have a short lived and very brief happy moment with the tiny plotline involving Dr. Cawley's motives. That's all I can say without getting into complexity. Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo and Ben Kingsly have given some of the great performances till date. I don't have anything that bugged me. So no mixed or bad aspects of the film
Conclusion. On the whole, for me, it's the movie of the decade. The decade is almost over, and still I have not got any movie in the league of "Shutter Island". It's a very engaging and thrilling movie. It's one of those films I consider to be an all time great