Teddy Daniels is a US Marshall summoned to investigate a missing patient in the infamous Shutter Island. The said place was a prison cell to the most dangerous criminals with mental illness. Together with his partner, he should find Rachel, who drowned her own children to death, and lock her up again in her cell before she commits another gruesome murder. But this task proves to be a challenge, as Teddy’s own dark past taunts him. He started seeing her dead wife again, who was killed in an arson of their own apartment and his past as a soldier during World War II with the death camp and Nazis, keeps on playing like a movie in his head. To make matter worse, he suspects that the doctors in the island conduct illegal medical operations and experiments with the mental patients as specimens. And he started to question his sanity and reality when he believes that he was also drugged with the pills, liquor and cigarettes that causes his hallucinations and drove him in the brink of losing his own mind as he try to uncover the secrets and conspiracy in Shutter Island. Or so it all seems.
The tandem of Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese in this movie defined what a thriller and mystery movie should be. It should have an intriguing storyline and gripping plot, creepy and sinister cinematography, intelligent script and superb acting. This movie will make you think, to fit all the pieces of the puzzle and grip the edge of your seat as you too will doubt everything that you have seen and heard on what is real and what’s not. Not until there was another point of view you will realize that that is already the truth, weather you want it or not, you just have to accept it, just like what Teddy sadly did at the end.
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