Review of Shutter Island (2010) by Samuel H — 09 Nov 2014

Am I real? Or is everything around me is true, who am I? Yup these are some weird doubts that pricked my mind after watching this 2010's Psychological thriller ''Shutter Island'', initially this movie seems to be moving from neurotic to the psychotic, but it's only at the end we come to know that Edward Daniels aka Andrew Laeddis (DiCaprio) is suffering with some serious psychotic illness.

This film is about the formation of new identity in order to disclose the previous unpleasant events happened; the movie begins with US Marshal Edward Daniels and his investigation partner Chuck Aule come to the Shutter Island (an isolated mental asylum for criminally insane) on the investigation of disappearing in-patient Rachel in the course of his investigation he never get the proper cooperation that he expected from the Hospital authority, this make him to think that something is wrong in that place meanwhile his hallucinated image of his wife tells that Andrew Laeddis the one who was responsible for killing his wife is also in the same island, he also tries to find him, in the course of finding him he also encounters some unexpected characters like George Noyce and ''the real Rachel Solando'' from them he learns that the hospital is conducting the experiment on the patients in a very barbaric way using the method of lobotomise and even he is under their experiment, knowing this he comes to the lighthouse the place where he believed that operation takes place and there he finds Dr.Cawley who tells Daniels that he is not in any kind of investigation he is been in that island from two years under the treatment for killing his bipolar wife who killed their children, and his real identity is not Edward Daniels instead he himself is the Andrew Laeddis, and his so called partner Chuck was his doctor who treated him and the entire plot was the part of their treatment to make him cure, he initially don't believe these and faints, when he is woken up he accepts the truth that he is Andrew Laeddis, but after sometime when he tells his Doctor whom he believed as his parter about escaping from the island they think he is not cured and they decide to lobotomise him and at last with the statement of "Which would be worse? To live as a monster or to die as the good man'' he goes to be lobotomised.

The entire tricky plot is so interesting that every bit of the movie is very curious, the must watch flick for every Psych-thriller fan, it's been neatly made without any flaws to be found (though some could be exempted) DiCaprio is fabulous with his performance, his neat portrayal of an investigator and the psychotic patient were mind-blowing, Mark Ruffalo and Ben Kingsley are the best overall its curious plot holds you up to the end, the cinematography and the unique BGM's are some other +point of these movie.