Blog 5

I saw the film “Shutter Island” this weekend, and it was great! I was not expecting the plot to turn the way it did. One thing I like about Leonardo Di Caprio is that he has the tendency to choose good films, so the odds of one of his films being good are pretty high. This film was creepy, but not scary enough to prevent you from falling asleep the night after you see it. I feel like a lot of films try to pull off what this film achieved without any success. It’s not really that this film is scary, it’s more disturbing. The content and plot are a little difficult to handle, but nevertheless, I think the film was very well made. The idea of an institution for the criminally insane is thought-provoking for me. All of the patients in this institution were murderers, but they were declared insane as well, so they were taken to Shutter Island to live and receive treatment. The fact that every single one of the patients in this film had killed someone blew my mind. Using insanity as an excuse for killing someone is difficult for me to fathom, but I understand that killing can be the result of psychosis nonetheless… even though it is hard for me to accept.