Brilliant Psychological Thriller

Rating: 9/10 (26 August 2016)

This little gem was worth an immediate Second Viewing, just to pick up on all of the "little things" that I missed the first time.
It's easy to just throw around the name "Martin Scorsese", and assume that the movie is going to be good. But the truth is that... sometimes... Scorsese is absolutely brilliant.
I haven't read the novel upon which this film is based, so all of my comments are based upon Scorsese's interpretation... not the novel, the Film.
The beauty of "Shutter Island" is that there really is no resolution at the end of the film. Was that really a guy deluding himself, trying to escape from the horrors of his own life, or was he still trapped inside of a drug-induced hallucination? Nobody knows.
He obviously knew, at the very end of the film, that by speaking to his "partner?", he was basically telling everyone that he had not been "cured." Was that a "request" to be lobotomized, so that he would never have to remember the horrors of his life again, or was it an acceptance of the fact that he would never escape from the island? Everyone assumes the former, but Scorsese leaves the question open.