During a 10th anniversary rewatch ofShutter Island,it dawned on me that I like that film far and above Martin Scorsese’s other 21st Century fare. But why?
2010 was a bumper year for fans of Leo DiCaprio not being quite sure whether he was awake, sleeping or hallucinating.
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Many of his films, most obviously his Mob dramas (The Irishman, Goodfellas) and biographies of larger-than-real-life people (The Wolf Of Wall Street’s Jordan Belfort, The Aviator’s Howard Hughes), settle you in for lengthy journeys. But Shutter Island’s paranoid subjectivity throws you into the shit along with Leo DiCaprio’s Teddy from minute one, as his investigation into a mysterious disappearance at an asylum for the criminally insane throws up more questions than answers at every turn.