Teddy Daniels falls under some of the great Scorsese Characters

Rating: 10/10 (12 March 2010)

This was truly a great performance from Leonardo Dicaprio. To bug out through the entire movie, and at the end you bug out even more. Brilliant entertainment. Teddy Daniels is Dicaprio's first type cast role. As we seen throughout his career now, at least once a movie he is going to freak out. Shutter Island is an Hour and Forty minutes long, throughout that time it's an acid trip for Teddy Daniels. Hallucination, Walking nightmares, fights, arguments. He is like the Dark Randal McMurphy or the even darker Travis Bickle.
As for Scorsese. He certainly threw a lot of homages in there, at least from my eyes. It was shot similar to The Exorcist: The Beginning. Now of course Shutter Island wipes the floor. But it was also not hard to see the comparisons to One Flew Over The Kuc Koo's Nest.
Scorsese just does it again, this time with Leonardo Dicaprio. At first the collaboration was a little green. But it is shaping to be a classic combo.