Shutter Island

[certainthings]

I watched it. I have spoilers, especially for the ending ... okay, pretty much all for the ending.

I enjoyed it. Mostly. But uh. I hate when they promote movies like that and voice over guy is all, 'With an ending you'll never see coming. Ever. It will shock and awe you. For realz,  yo.'

Because then ... the ending doesn't do that at all.

Leo's character being a patient? Not surprising.

Having Kate Winslet dreaming the whole thing? That would've surprised me.

Having Leo's character be an alien who was making all those people crazy? That too probably would've surpised me.

Having the whole thing take place in the belly of a whale? Might be suprising.

Right. So, I actually figured out not that long into the movie what the ending was but even when they revealed that he was in face a patient, I kept on waiting for something else to happen, for something more because surely that couldn't be all there was to it.

And a small part of me is still a little bit convinced that I missed something and there was a surprise, shock and awe, holy shit that just blew my mind - ending.

Comments

[onlywordsnow.livejournal.com]

Well, see, I didn't get the perception that he was actually a patient at all. I think that the point is that once you're on the island, you never get off of the island, and that he was tricked into believing he was a patient. Ruffalo's character, in my opinion, was sent on the boat because from the beginning the characters had two different details. Ruffalo's character was from somewhere other than where DiCaprio's character was told he would be from. I think that it is all plausible, both scenarios, but manipulation is a bitch.

[certainthings.livejournal.com]

I love this theory so very very much. I think I might adopt it.

[onlywordsnow.livejournal.com]

I'm game. The theory has a lot of character, I think.