Sunday, March 28, 2010

Shutter Island

Shutter Island is Scorsese's latest film which was released this year. It is a psychological thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The film is based on the 2003 novel Shutter Island written by Dennis Lehane. The film is set in 1954, DiCaprio plays a US Marshall called Teddy Daniels. He has gone to the Ashecliff Hospital for the criminally insane on Shutter Island to investigate the disappearance of a woman patient. He soon starts to find things out and starts to get suspicious. He starts to think that the hospital are performing operations on its patients in order to control there minds. Teddy then goes to the lighthouse where he is told that the operations are taking place but instead he finds only the head psychiatrist Dr. John Cawley (played by Ben Kingsley) who reveals a big twist in the film.

Shutter Island is the fourth film Scorsese has used DiCaprio as the lead role the others are The Aviator, Gangs of New York and The Departed. Here is the link to the film on IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1130884/

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