Nice twisted movie

Rating: 10/10 (1 March 2010)

Martin Scorcese really surprised me with this film. Having a patient who thought of himself as a state Marshall trying to find a woman who has a name much like his dead daughter. The twists and turns in this film made me think that the staff of shutter island were the patients portraying themselves as the staff. Gaurds, orderlies, nurses, even Ben Kingsley as the head director of the asylum. But what got me going was the fact that a few of DiCaprio's past memories kept clashing within himself giving away small clues which made re-think the story altogether. I loved how Martin used some very exquisite Avante Garde' memory flashbacks to the second world war or his home, being with his wife. But the fact that made me think he was the patient, was the good Doctor Rachel Solondez. When he found her in a cave who was portrayed by just a nurse. This was what done it, when she started to explain the procedures of psychotropic drugs being used on patients. And how using orbital lobotomies to sullen the insane people so they can be controlled better, how she explained this was too factual almost as if she was telling him too much in detail. And also the fact that the staff on the island tried to keep away from the caves because of the so called poison ivy or other plant life. This is pretty much a lame excuse for finding someone on a remote island. I loved this movie, what a great refreshing approach from a great director of mob films. the attention to clue details was astonishing. A must see.