SHUTTER ISLAND - Movie Review
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As someone who has spent time as a patient in a psych hospital, this movie always disturbed me. The thought of losing it completely is truly one of the worst possible fates
grippy sock vacation! i kept mine
Check out the Soft White Underbelly interview with a schizophrenic recently. That's scary.
I don't think anyone "normal" could ever "lose it completely", because such a person was probably never really "there" to begin with.
@@Suite_annamite what I meant by ‘losing it completely’ was being lobotomized where you are basically a drooling vegetable. Psychiatry in the old days was barbaric.
@@Suite_annamite where did you attend medical college
Keep on randomly reviewing! I'd far rather that than the predictable, awards-driven selection that many MovieTube channels succumb to.
Another well rounded review: I am sure many of us appreciate that you not only review and critique a movie, but you share an analytical perspective which puts your viewpoint of the film into context so we can understand why you have the opinion you do. Always looking forward to your next presentation.
Silence is my favorite Scorsese film. It's a difficult film but I think it was very much overlooked the year it came out.
I loved a atmosphere of this movie, that asylum was so weird and dark. The twist at the end was great too.
I was speechless at the end. I went on to read the book for more!
It's such a great piece of pure filmmaking. Scorsese doesn't even try to hide the "twist". It's just an evocative thing to see unfold. It's an exercise in both cinema and audience expectation so seeking "authenticity" is to look for something that was not intended. Incidentally, the "twist" seems to have been taken from William Peter Blatty's "The Ninth Configuration" P.S. Anyone prefer Casino to Goodfellas?
I prefer The Irishman to both
@@poop_storm that’s a take!
@@Tolstoy111 I just think it has better pacing and sticks the landing a little better, but to be fair I’m not a huge fan of Scorsese’s crime epics to begin with
An underrated Martin Scorsese film. The twist at the end was brilliant. Mark Ruffalo and Leonardo is a pair that wasn’t expected but a welcome one. Definitely a movie that would have been cool to see in theatres had i had the chance
I agree, i really enjoyed this movie.
It's overrated if anything my guy
Have you seen Silence? I personally feel that may be Scorsese’s best 21st century film, and it felt extremely personal to me
Agreed! I'm very curious as to what she makes of it.
one of the best reviews I've watched on youtube ever. Definitely subscribing!!
I love this movie! For me the key point wasn't the reveal that he's a patient, but at the end when he pretends to regress so that he will be lobotomized. During the runtime I became very frustrated with the plot, but then at the very end I realized it's a character study of a man who's in Hell and just wants to be put out of his misery. I only saw it once, but I'll have to revisit it and see if I feel the same about it
I love the random reviews!
you speak so well and you were so honest, amazing! im in cinema and I'm reviewing Shutter Island for a class and this really helped! I agreed with most os the things you said and it was nice to feel validated ahaha
I was waiting for this review!! Good One! I think this is one of Scorcese's underrated flicks. Great plot twist in the end.
This is how a review should be! Endless critics give away too much of the plot while describing their issues. You never take this road since you really have something to say. Excellent review as usual.
seriously the most insightful reviewer on youtube
Yeah, Dana Andrews! Great review. You illustrated all the reasons I found the film wanting.
I don't love every Scorsese film, but I think the key to understanding his work is that he is a great *director*, while his writing is informed by how he absorbed the environment he grew up in, and his background in documentary films, not his mastery of the dramatic form. He seems to edit his films like they're documentaries (at least in some cases), and is great at shaping chaotic material into a cohesive story.
However, he admitted that he and his family did NOT read books when he was growing up, so he doesn't have a literary background. He doesn't seem to focus on theme, or symbolism or other literary devices. This is not a knock against his work, it's just an attempt to put it in perspective.
These are the best film reviews on CZcams! Please please please review some Eric Rohmer films at some point, would love to get your take on his cinematic language
I love this movie happy to see you reviewing it.
I would love to see your thoughts on Midnight Cowboy. One of my favorites.
I wished that I had gone to see this film in theaters. I was too scared off by the trailer. 🤦🏻♂️ Great film! 👏
I watched this and then your old review from 13 years ago! popped up lol
You should review Steven Spielberg's first feature Sugarland Express. It's quite random too 😉😁
Silence and The Irishman both felt extremely personal. Silence felt like a reflection of his own views on Christianity, a topic he’s been exploring most of his career but this time not only taking us along his journey, but challenging us in ours. And The Irishman felt like his encore to the genre he knows best and not coming off as another Goodfellas repeat (unlike Casino). Really hoping Killers of the Flower Moon holds up.
I also eagerly await "Killers of the Flower moon".. 👏
YT keep teasing us and teasing us.
Your reviews are so informed and honest. Thanks so much for the content
I very much enjoy Scorsese's non gangster movies like Hugo and King of Comedy. Your reviews are well thought out and i really enjoy your take on films ( loved the Persona video).
Thank you for reviewing that masterpisce
I think it is a rather chilling psychological thriller, although I think you have a sound point with the casting of DiCaprio. I would have loved to see someone like Bill Pullman or Edward Norton in the lead.
Bill Pullman already played the character in Lost Highway! 😆
Silence and The Irishman are two of the most personal films Scorsese has ever done.
Scorsese usually isnt for me but this movie I really like and I've come back to it many times.
I've only seen two post-2000 Scorsese movies: "Silence", which I liked quite a bit, and "Hugo", which I _haaaaaated_ . A tribute to Georges Melies should be done in the Melies style (Karel Zeman's "Fabulous World of Jules Verne" for example). "Hugo" just looks like another over-the-top Spielberg special effects fest.
I love it. I love the mood & atmosphere, & I find it to be an emotional experience thanks to DiCaprio's performance. I also love Gangs of New York & Hugo as well. Scorsese I think is more of an emotional filmmaker than he is given credit for.
Nice guitar in the back
I love the atmosphere and haunting nature of the movie!
I am really curious about your thoughts on Silence from 2016. To me that is one of Scorsese's best movies.
I'm just thankful it wasn't another gangster movie.
I remember it feeling like a Nolan film when I saw it, I find these sorts of things enjoyable but I’m not as much of a fan of Marty’s more humourless films like this compared to his films which have more colourful characters.
It was an interesting movie!
Top 10 Scorsese for me.
Shutter Island was never one of my favorite Martin Scorsese movies, but overall i do enjoy this movie.
Great review Maggie and take care and stay safe 👍.
The first time I watched it when the twist happened i literally said "wait, what???" And when i watched it the second time i figured out the twist
This is a movie I’ll always remember because I skipped school to go see this with some friends. DiCaprio is who made us wana go too see this movie you can say what you want about him but when he’s on then screen butts are in the seats.
Can u do a aftersun review?
Careful you may not like what you hear😅
I am going to have to disagree with you with your comments regarding Goodfellas being his last movie that "came from the soul". I've commented this many times, but I would love to see your review on The Age of Innocence. In my opinion and from what I've taken away from interviews, that is definitely one of his most personal movies and for me, one of the most perfect book adaptations I've ever seen. The movie had perfect casting and perfect set-design/costumes from veterans of the industry.
Surprised you weren’t a fan of this one, I’ve always loved Shutter Island. I’ve seen it many times and I love it more each time I see it.
I was wondering what your thoughts were on Guadagnino’s Bones and All. I’m aware that you were not a fan of his previous work, nor was i. He is clearly talented but his films always ring empty. I have yet to see Bones and All but a number of my friends who were not found of this man’s previous works seemed to actually like this one. So, what were your thoughts on the film? We’re you planning a review?
Pretty solid if you don't have bloated expectations...you are right, though, could have been a rather small budget movie.
Hi beautiful. That movie is genius.
In the end you don't know wether the people in charge of the Island is gonna give him the Lobotomy or make him become a member of the doctors, as if they recognise he's kind of genius.
More so, you never get to know the truth!
I have a theory about the movie. Not sure how many people subscribe to it, but I don't think there's anything in the movie to contradict it, here goes: Ben Kingsley was lying to Leo. The whole thing was a crooked experiment, a scenario of his to claim a test subject..
So why was Dr. Cawley disappointed when Chuck shook his head saying the experiment didnt work? In the end, Leo's character snapped out of his insanity but decided to be lobotmized by acting like he relapsed. Watch the ending again
Oh he was definitely lying to Teddy the whole time, starting with the fact that he was playing along with Teddy's delusions in the first place. That's like convincing a kid that Santa Claus exists, and then being completely shocked that he still believes Santa Claus.
Does anyone here who has commented know that this movie is based on Dennis Lehane's novel of the same name, published in 2003? Scorsese didn't write this story; Dennis Lehane did.
Your point being?
I like Dennis Lehane’s other novel Mystic River a lot better. The film adaptation with Sean Penn is pretty mediocre, but the book is one of the best thrillers I’ve ever read.
excellent presentation...you in top form here.
mother: "when are you going to find a nice girl?"
joe pesci "'m gonna marry you mom."
Thoughts on Scream 6 ?
Excellent, as always. I thought this movie was bouncing off the walls bad, with laughable performances. "Overwrought" is the mot jus.
I love Shutter Island 🕺
One of my all time favourite Scorcese films.
Ex-veteran? How can you stop being a veteran?
This film is Top 5 Scorsese.
Wow. I thought this movie was excellent. Scorcese's best post-2000 movie.
Good review. Di Caprio is mediocre and has certain limits on what he can achieve. This is a great b-movie inspired Twilight Zone episode. If someone treats it this way it's really enjoyable.
That was Scorsese’s intention in making it.
@@FrancoisDressler Agree.
What do you think about Silence? I know it's from the 2010's, not the 2000's. But that's honestly my favorite Scorsese film. I still haven't seen The Last Temptation of Christ or Casino though. But I don't think there's anything I'll ever see from him that will too Silence and I'm not even religious, I don't believe in God.
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I really liked this film , cult classic
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I have only seen this film once when it first came out. I remember it being hard to get through. I distinctly remember the cliff climbing scene being my breaking point. I need to watch again.
I know people joke about this being a Nolan movie, But for me this literally became a Mandela Effect phenomenon
I genuinely believed this was a Nolan movie for the longest time and in a discussion about Nolan movies with some friends I said "Well I think Shutter Island is one of his best"
To find a very confused expression in all of their faces
'Mandela effect' aka I Forgot: The Conspiracy
This is top 5 Scorsese. I love this movie so much. The ending is heartbreaking. Leo pretends to revert back to Teddy just so he can get the lobotomy. This is a masterpiece. You’re completely wrong on it.
Is the whole film snob thing just an act,or are you like that in real life too?lol...don't get me wrong,I very much appreciate you and your reviews but that's how it sometimes comes off as.
It's not my favourite. But scorese is stretching himself, in contrast to wolf of Wall Street were he was on automatic pilot
I didn't buy the central premise that a dude with no prior schizophrenia would descend into such a profound delusion, ptsd or not. Even the trauma of losing your family doesn't send people into psychotic breaks but rather suicidal depression. Also what is up with all the anagrams?
The anagrams are the result of doctors who have too much time on their hands.
It's been a while since I watched this movie and read the book, and while I did like the movie at the time I remember thinking it would have been better with pretty much anybody besides Leo in the lead role. This is a part that requires layers and depth, and DiCaprio is the opposite of that.
Shutter Island is if Martin Scorsese directed an M. Night Shyamalan script.
You really nail explaining what Leo is good at. As to Shutter Island, I enjoy watching it but I can see how it's lesser Scorsese in terms of concept, theme, dialogue, care, etc. but those last 30min work well for me. I'd be interested in reading the Lehane novel it's adapting to see how indebted to it Scorsese was.
My biggest problem with this movie is the twist, it wasn’t surprising at all. The whole time I was thinking oh man, I really hope the twist isn’t gonna be what it ended up being. It was disappointing to me
Leo was great in this movie, what are you talking about?? 🤦♂️
I’m in disbelief on some of the Leo hate I wouldn’t of been in the theater if that mf wasn’t in it
He really wasn’t
Maggie, when you have some free time to watch a movie please hit this. Tabu 2012 Directed by Miguel Gomes Synopsis: Aurora had a farm in Africa, at the foot of Mount Tabu…
I think that you'll adore it. It's a Portuguese masterpiece but English narrated.
My mind and my heart were simply filled up with emotions all over the place when I finished watching it.
The only thing I remembered about this movie is how for like 2 years there was a trailer for it before every movie I saw.
Something about "Shutter Island" felt like a clumsy DePalma movie. As if Scorsese was busy being giddy because he reverse-engineered the entire movie from that biiiiig reveal at the end.
Found the movie, like much of Scorsese's filmography, overrated. I'd absolutely agree that Scorsese reached his peak with "Goodfellas" and hasn't recovered since.
Although I do have to say that of all of his movies, "Cape Fear" would be my first choice for a rewatch. The ending is deservedly cathartic. Which isn't usually the case with ol' Marty.
@@TackJorrance yep, "Casino" is the sole consequent exception of a worthy Martin Scorsese picture. "The Departed" and "Silence" were decent films, but nothing to shout home about.
This was just a generic thriller with a twist that’s pretty much given away in the trailer. It’s just a reskin cabinet of caligari.
Thanks. I'm totally with you on this one. I put off watching this one a bit because I had problems with this too. Definitely a lesser work from a master.
I usually love DFL, but the first two minutes of this video is sheer buzzwords.
This movie is awesome. You have no clue.
You could take any Shakespeare play and rip it to pieces. Once again, you are wrong.
The shocker had me questioning reality. I remember paying for an item after watching the film and mistakenly giving the cashier a nickel instead of a dime. When she caught my mistake my minded whirled wildly and I thought, 'Oh no! A dime is no longer a dime!' So, yeah, my mind got bushwhacked.
What was Scorsese's last great movie? His first run in the 70's, Mean Streets to Raging Bull, gave way to a lost period in the eighties. Then he announced his resumed reign with a quintessential 90's flick, Goodfellas. It's a rebirth of a sort, because all Scorsese's previous great films were essentially character studies, whereas Goodfellas invests its strength in its theatrical ideas: Scorsese expresses giddy joy at accessing a cinematic self awareness that previously took second place to his raw portrayals of humans at war with themselves. His following film, Cape Fear, is a personal favorite. It's pretty campy, which earns it a lot of knee jerk criticism, but the camp is merely a sugary coating overlaying a complex allegorical structure. The surfeit of ideas flowing beneath that film's surface rarely gets matched. Just think dreams and you'll be on the right track.. Most of all, it's a movie about the creative process. I always thought Scorsese was attempting to channel Hitchcock's Vertigo when he made it. Age of Innocence deployed a similarly powerful allegorical structure, though I don't remember it very well. After that I believe Scorsese stopped grabbing the bull by the horns and taking it for a ride. Oh well, we all get old if we live long enough...
Off-topic: just finished watching Seven. Thanks for bring it up so much on your channel. I'd only watched the movie once before as an adolescent. Enjoyed it then, but moved on quickly. My favorite structural detail in my second viewing involved the visual contrasts between light and dark. The movie's content is incredibly dark, yes, but scariest stuff, the Truth, is saturated by scalding light. The easiest way to clue into this compositional metaphor is by watching our sleuths navigate the darkness. They pierce it with their flashlights because they're fellow truth-seekers unwittingly enclosing on the most terrifying truth of all: the darkness exists inside ourselves.
Great stuff! A new favorite! 10/10. Another quintessential 90's movie. Inspired The Matrix visually, don't you think? Also, Nolan's Gotham noir-scape (Chicago) feels redolent with Fincher's bleak New York. And, like you said, The Batman leans heavily on Seven for story structure. Guess black coats and black capes became the same thing after Seven. Also, Mel Gibson's Satan owes something to Kevin Spacey's bald pate.
No disrespect intended for Mr. DiCaprio, but - although he is a good actor - he is not suited as a leading man. That he is one is perplexing to me. I guess audiences overlook his lack of screen presence because he's handsome or something. He made a good Jack Dawson because Jack was, frankly, not meant to be much more than a "type". That said, Kate Winslet overpowered him in every scene. He seems so out of his depth in most of Scorsese's films - especially _Gangs of New York._ An exception: _Wolves of Wall Street._ That film played to his strengths as a character actor. So did _Once Upon a Time in Hollywood._ But without the strongly written quirks, he just lacks the requisite screen presence. When playing Howard Hughes, I did not for a moment buy his portrayal of OCD. Or inventive genius. Or playboy. Or gemaphobe. Again, the supporting cast just ran all over him. Most lead parts just don't seem to have the right ingredients to utilize his talents. Instead he is stuck in the traditional leading-man death-spiral of underwritten roles that require the natural charisma of a Nicholson, a DeNiro, or a Beatty to really pull off. Or maybe I'm just blind to what Scorsese and everyone else sees in him.
I would agree with you about his career, but I believe he got something of it back with Silence and The Irishman
I revisited this one also. I was not into it. Your point about cutting the budget in half was so on point. All the technicolor dream sequences and memories were just too much. Add that to DiCaprio's overacting and you get one really campy but not very fun movie.
I really liked the movie but it did feel more like a David Fincher film and didn't really feel like a Scorsese film. It does feel like a bit of a one and done movie though.
@CWS and TKP 66-02 I hate how Scorsese is synonymous with Crime Dramas and people think he only direct those kinds of films. They are overlooking straight classics (The King of Comedy, The Aviator, Silence, etc.)
You have a way of reviewing something that is utterly brilliant and making it sound like a Saturday morning cartoon. You are soooooo off base. I am speechless.
It’s in my top 10. I still have a lot more movies to get through, but the atmosphere of Shutter Island is one of my favorites. I would say atmosphere & character likability is the biggest factor when it comes to rewatchability. That’s why I love Hateful Eight, No Country for Old Men, Banshees of Inisherin & can watch those over & over again. Other movies like Top Gun, Ford v Ferrari, Whiplash have that adrenaline factor that make them so good. Not every great movie has to be a 10/10 in every category. Sometimes they just need to be really good at 1 or 2 things & that can be better than a movie that is an 8/10 across the board. Put me in an atmosphere I like with people I like & I will keep coming back. I loved all the characters in Shutter Island almost as much as I loved all the characters in Banshees of Inisherin-one of the best casted movies of all time imo.
this was a big miss for me too. if this movie didnt have any twists-if it was really about two marshals trying to find a missing person on an island-it would have been leagues better. I will say this movie is GORGEOUS-RR really outdid himself here and hes my favorite cinematographer.
and i always say the best scorsee/dicaprio movie is catch me if you can-spielberg got to what marty was always trying to do.
@@TackJorrance I called the twist when they didnt explain the bandage on leos head at the beginning then spent the rest of the movie saying 'theres no way scorsese would do something that dumb'
Minute-to-minute, it's just not that good. And the twist felt a bit cheap to me, IIRC.
Leo is not a good actor, he is better as the joker/joke in/of films.
There's clearly so many things wrong with this review in the way it "analyzes" the film. But to say that Scorsese has never been personal ever since Goodfellas and also out of touch is a preposterous thing to say. She couldn't be more wrong. Have you see The Irishman or Silence for that matter? Half of the things hse talks about are nonsese and rather critiquing the film itself, she goes on a tangent to say the things she wishes should happen. That's not the right mindset for reviewing a film. E.g. Leo DiCaprio would've been more a better theatre actor than a film actor. What nonsense and random observations. Unbearable!
Someone is hurt
buh huh, cry more
@@pyro380 Thank you. I will.
Very boring movie. The end, with dead kids in water is on the verge of parody. Cinematography is great.
Compelling theme, decent cinematography/photography, OKish editing, suboptimal actors and a very bored and uninterested director for a basic script.
It tried to be the sixth sense but failed miserably.
Terrible film.
Kinema
Shutter Island feels fake and really contrived and the war things were just tasteless.
@CWS and TKP 66-02 You just proved to me what kind of people who admires a contrived mess like Shutter Island.
@@sandorx4 people with brains? Oh man, what a tragedy