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Shutter Island
Several chapters into Shutter Island, I decided - oddly - that I wanted to see the movie first as the book was sitting oddly with me. I knew from reviews that the ending was messed up but I didn't expect that.
I'd call Shutter Island a movie that's incredibly well done - well acted, well written, well directed - but not, necessarily, a movie that I enjoyed. Don't get me wrong - I loved the movie. I didn't enjoy it. I went in expecting a horror movie and I got a punch to the brain. It was one of those rare movies where I don't really mind being messed with in terms of what I was expecting to get. I sussed out pretty quickly that 'Teddy' was probably one of the patients on the island (knowing it was a warped ending, I put two and two together when they were talking about the missing woman and her fantasy in order to cope with what she'd done) but it was breath taking to see how much of it was all in his head.
And when it unraveled it did it big time.
The gut puncher though was Andrew as 'Teddy' at the end, after he'd come out of his state of being this hero, saying to Chuck/Dr. Sheehan "Whether it's better to live as a monster, or die as a good man" as he heads, peacefully, towards his ending. The lobotomization that he, as his fictional self, had tried so hard to uncover Shutter Island doing on men and women.
Like I said, I loved this movie but I sure as hell wanted it over with as it played havoc on my brain. I don't know if that makes sense but it's the only way I can truly describe how I feel about Shutter Island.
This is one of those movies where I think I need a hug afterward and I'm only partly sure I know why I want a hug.
I'd call Shutter Island a movie that's incredibly well done - well acted, well written, well directed - but not, necessarily, a movie that I enjoyed. Don't get me wrong - I loved the movie. I didn't enjoy it. I went in expecting a horror movie and I got a punch to the brain. It was one of those rare movies where I don't really mind being messed with in terms of what I was expecting to get. I sussed out pretty quickly that 'Teddy' was probably one of the patients on the island (knowing it was a warped ending, I put two and two together when they were talking about the missing woman and her fantasy in order to cope with what she'd done) but it was breath taking to see how much of it was all in his head.
And when it unraveled it did it big time.
The gut puncher though was Andrew as 'Teddy' at the end, after he'd come out of his state of being this hero, saying to Chuck/Dr. Sheehan "Whether it's better to live as a monster, or die as a good man" as he heads, peacefully, towards his ending. The lobotomization that he, as his fictional self, had tried so hard to uncover Shutter Island doing on men and women.
Like I said, I loved this movie but I sure as hell wanted it over with as it played havoc on my brain. I don't know if that makes sense but it's the only way I can truly describe how I feel about Shutter Island.
This is one of those movies where I think I need a hug afterward and I'm only partly sure I know why I want a hug.