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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 428442" data-attributes="member: 23">Shutter Island (2010)

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This was one of three previously-unwatched films hurriedly added to my watchlist last night. Shutter Island would probably have been my second or third choice, but for the fact that it&#039;s the only one with a &quot;Leaving Prime in X days&quot; warning. So in I dived with minimal knowledge of the film. All I knew was that it starred Leonardo DiCaprio and the premise was about two men sent to find a missing psychiatric patient who was missing. This was the best place to start.

It took some time for me to understand what the voice of the film would be. It felt surprising that some way into the film it wasn&#039;t clear into which genre it fell, nor where it was trying to take us. It seemed almost sluggish and, fearing it was going to feel this way for 2+ hours, I briefly wondered about stopping watching (I must confess to also being a little bothered that DiCaprio repeatedly mispronounced the word &quot;escaped&quot; as &quot;excaped&quot;). Somehow, though, I couldn&#039;t check out. Partly because I&#039;d invested time in it and it was too late in the evening to watch another. But partly because I needed to find out where it was going.&nbsp; I&#039;m very glad I persevered.

Because most of the people on the island were either orderlies in white, patients in hospital clothes or psychiatrists in suite, it also took me a while to fully realise this was a period piece rather than just heavily stylised. Not everyone can pull off a Fedora, but DiCaprio just about got away with it whilst Mark Ruffalo looked illegally good in his (I&#039;ve never previously thought of him as a particularly attractive man, but that hat paired with an amused smirk upon arrival at the island and meeting its various inhabitants tipped the balance).

To say much about the film would be ruinous to anyone who hasn&#039;t yet watched it, and I&#039;d hate to deprive someone else of the opportunity to see it unspoilt. I can say that the performances are terrific, the film kept me guessing with each shift. And it messed with my head a fair bit (but I&#039;m too polite to write down the actual term I used to describe it after watching).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 428442, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]Shutter Island [/SIZE][/B](2010) [IMG width="925px"]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimages3.alphacoders.com%2F993%2F99309.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=f4b35e2e26d38fe9f29ba6607fd6edaae5998e3e1f27a9192bfe870dc46549b9[/IMG] This was one of three previously-unwatched films hurriedly added to my watchlist last night. [I]Shutter Island[/I] would probably have been my second or third choice, but for the fact that it's the only one with a "Leaving Prime in X days" warning. So in I dived with minimal knowledge of the film. All I knew was that it starred Leonardo DiCaprio and the premise was about two men sent to find a missing psychiatric patient who was missing. This was the best place to start. It took some time for me to understand what the voice of the film would be. It felt surprising that some way into the film it wasn't clear into which genre it fell, nor where it was trying to take us. It seemed almost sluggish and, fearing it was going to feel this way for 2+ hours, I briefly wondered about stopping watching (I must confess to also being a little bothered that DiCaprio repeatedly mispronounced the word "escaped" as "excaped"). Somehow, though, I couldn't check out. Partly because I'd invested time in it and it was too late in the evening to watch another. But partly because I needed to find out where it was going. I'm very glad I persevered. Because most of the people on the island were either orderlies in white, patients in hospital clothes or psychiatrists in suite, it also took me a while to fully realise this was a period piece rather than just heavily stylised. Not everyone can pull off a Fedora, but DiCaprio just about got away with it whilst Mark Ruffalo looked illegally good in his (I've never previously thought of him as a particularly attractive man, but that hat paired with an amused smirk upon arrival at the island and meeting its various inhabitants tipped the balance). To say much about the film would be ruinous to anyone who hasn't yet watched it, and I'd hate to deprive someone else of the opportunity to see it unspoilt. I can say that the performances are terrific, the film kept me guessing with each shift. And it messed with my head a fair bit (but I'm too polite to write down the actual term I used to describe it after watching).[/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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