5/10/2023 0 Comments Shutter island de dennis lehaneThe vessel of these anxieties is Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays Teddy Daniels, a United States marshal taking a ferry ride out to the island to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Scorsese uses his considerable formal dexterity his intimate, comprehensive understanding of how sound and image work together to create meanings and moods to conjure a tingly atmosphere of uncertainty and dread. At first everything is fine, or at least not quite right in a way that seems agreeably intriguing. Like Shutter Island in the opening scenes, the full dimensions of the catastrophe come into view only gradually. Sadly, that something turns out to be the movie itself, directed by Martin Scorsese and adapted by Laeta Kalogridis from a peculiar contraption of a thriller by Dennis Lehane. The wail of strangled cellos accompanies shots of the titular island, a sinister, rain-lashed outcropping that is home to a mental hospital for the CRIMINALLY INSANE! The color scheme is lurid, and the camera movements telegraph anxiety. I’m sorry, that should be OFF THE COAST OF MASSACHUSETTS! IN 1954! since every detail and incident in the movie, however minor, is subjected to frantic, almost demented (and not always unenjoyable) amplification. “Shutter Island” takes place off the coast of Massachusetts in 1954.
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