I think we've missed a lot of things

Rating: 9/10 (29 May 2016)

I've re-watched this movie and this time i was focusing on details given I had already known the ending. First of all how great is that fake Rachel played by the nurse? She was asked by Dr. John Cawley to play the role and when Laeddis treated her like a real patient and invented a story about a Communist subversive, even though she paused and share an eye contact with Cawley, she just improvised and did it splendidly. The eye contact is just one of many other clues we could've missed. Throughout the entire movie there are so many clues that Scorsese puts in some of which are other's defensive measure, like this one : when Leaddis was interviewing that beautiful nurse in the cafeteria, she had this syringe on the table. And before, Leaddis's reaction against that patient , he was angry and made an hypothesis about wife,kids, besides he knew exact way to provoked this patient. I strongly recommend you to re-watch this film but this time try not to focus on DiCaprio performance but other people's reaction. Finally, in the morning after Leaddis was lucid, again. This time Dr. John Cawley was so convinced that he was cured. But when he saw Dr. Sheehan shaking his head. Dr. Sheehan was disappointed too "we gotta get off this rock, Chuck. Get back to the mainland...". Here's the catch "you know this place makes me wonder...which would be worse? To live as a monster or to die as a good man?" Dr. Sheehan suddenly knew, knowing the truth is too painful.