Review, Shutter Island:

I bought the book and I was planning on reading it before I saw the movie but that didn't fall through like I was hoping and I watched the movie first. To be honest I haven't even started reading the book, with working in retail full time I find little time to be able to even read it, blah. I was told by everyone who saw it that they liked this movie a lot so again I was looking forward to see it. The movie starts out with Marshell Teddy Daniels riding on a ferry with his partner Chuck Aule to the mental institution for the criminally insane on Shutter Island. They were informed that a patient named Rachel has escaped from the institution and they need to figure out what happened and where she is. The one thing I have a problem with this movie is when they were driving up to the hospital they played very hard, dark music. Yes we know that their going to a scary hospital do they really need to play very intense music to let us know that their going to a bad place? I think the music was going a little over board to make us scared.

They get to the hospital and start interviewing all the patients and workers to find out where Rachel escaped too. Teddy starts having migraines so the chief gives him aspirin to help his headache. Once Teddy gets to the institution he begins to have illusions about his Wife who was killed two years prior. He figures out that there was no way that Rachel could escape from her room with no shoes and with bars on the window without having any help. Teddy soon realizes that everyone that is working at the institution is acting very weird so he decides to get to the bottom of it and searches the whole island where he sees a flickering light coming from a cave. He climbs up and finds a woman living in the cave and she tells him that she's Rachel and she escaped from the hospital and that she wasn't a patient there she was a doctor. She later tells him that the main doctor, Dr. Cawley does tests on all the patients which screws up their brain and leaves them unable to fend for themselves.

He gets back to the hospital and tells the doctor that he figured everything out and he's not going to get away with what he's doing. Dr. Cawley tells him that he is not Marshell Teddy Daniels and he's really a patient at Shutter Island and he's been here for two years for killing his wife since she drowned all their kids. He suffers from a form of multiple personalities and they thought if they let him live out his "other" life he would come to terms with who he really was and his other life was just a little fantasy that his mind lived in. After watching this movie it made me start to think about all of our fantasies and how crazy we really are for having them. I mean if we let our minds wander we can think up some crazy shit, I know I have. It also shows that nothing and no one is normal nowadays. We are all crazy and we all have things that were into that makes us weird or a little off our rocker, we just need to decide whether to accept our craziness and embrace it. I choose to embrace it and show the world how crazy I am cause I'm not ashamed it's who I am and it makes me ME. I give his movie 4 out of 5 Skulls.