Shutter Island - new Scorcese film trailer

Well I agree, although about 40 mins in I did start to think this guy might be mad, might actually be a patient I never knew the true extent of it, i.e. that it was ALL a fantasy in his head and that nothing was real. Plus they kept throwing about the consipiracy story amongst the clues. so I had that in the back of my mind also.
 
I actually liked the twist. It wasn't really a twist as such as I guessed it almost immediately, but I wasn't completely sure it wasn't something else.

I'm sure for people expecting some sort of conspiracy the ending was disappointing, but I really liked it as a simple portrait of one man's madness. Also I really loved the feel, the music and the beautiful yet bleak, sometimes chilling, look of the film.

As for the ending.

I think he'd slipped back into the charade, but more because he wanted to. There was definitely some choice to it at the end, even if it was unconscious choice.
 
It's SUPERB. If you like the look of the trailer, you'll very likely adore the movie. Very different to what Scorsese's been up to recently, but in the best possible way.
 
After finishing reading the book and then watching the film last nite the film butchered the book, cut out a whole mystery and changed it quite a bitthey edited out alot of reasoning to the mystery of the film, obviously there was to be cuts as its only a 2 hour film but they could have just made it an half hour longer and explained some stuff, I was worried that it wasn't going to make sense. The book was a brilliant read, the film was alrite.

If you havn't read the book you'll probably enjoy the film more, but to those that have read the book don't bother with the film, you'll be let down.
 
I read it as he actually hadn't regressed and as such he could remember what he'd done, but he'd rather be lobotomised and "die a good man" than leave the island "as a monster" knowing what he's done.
 
I just got back from seeing this. It was such a well put together film! Not a single dull moment, a different incident pointing to different conclusions the whole way through it. I, like many others, guessed the main part to the twist, but nowhere NEAR had all the back story to it solved.

Very enjoyable film. 9/10.
 
I saw this at the cinema again today. Have to say I liked it even more the second time knowing the whole plot. Certain scenes and acting choices just made so much more sense and so had far more impact. The film actually went up in my estimation. I think it's fantastically made, and acted.
 
Afraid to say that it bored me silly - I too foresaw the 'twist' quite early on and wasn't impressed with the story or script. Scorsese's direction was pretty heavy-handed too.

On the plus side, the cinematography was great and the score pretty good too.
 
This is what I picked up, too.

When he started talking about dying as a good man, his psychiatrist was a bit stunned by it (obviously because it was out of character for his imaginary character). Furthermore, why would be voluntarily get up and walk with the doctors? He was clear what was going to happen; because of his guilt/anger/sadness, he didn't think it was worth living a normal life.
 
Just saw this today, but like a lot of these films, I'd figured out the end about 10 minutes into the film, just not how they were going to do it.

Not a bad film nonetheless.
 
I think also...
he could never give up his invented version of events because that would mean accepting that his wife was the murderer, not Rachel
 
I saw it yesterday and really didn't see the twist coming - probably partly because I so didn't want it to be true. I was still waiting for it to 'twist' back again and him to blow their lies wide open when the credits started.... :p

But I keep thinking about it and remembering bits which make more sense now, and I think I'm going to go and see it again, to see how it all fits together when you know what is going on.

I came out of the cinema last night not being sure how good I thought it was, but I'm still thinking about it now and really want to see it again, and it now seems like one of the best films I've seen in ages.
It's captured my imagination far more than another Government conspiracy would have done....
 
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