10/10
Best Film of the Decade...
9 March 2020
Warning: Spoilers
68% on Rotten Tomatoes, really?

This movie has multiple meanings but at times it is hard to explain the meaning because you can't find the words to describe it. So I'm going to try and keep it easy to understand.

At the beginning we see our main character, Teddy Daniels a.k.a. Andrew Laeddis (as we find out towards the end) throwing up on a ferry saying it's because he is seasick, but now I get it. He is throwing up because he so horrified by his past, his wife killing his three children by drowning them and him shooting her in the stomach that he gets sick every now and then. Ben Kingsley's character says that Dr Sheehan is overseas, which we find out is actually Andrew's psychiatrist for Shutter Island. His disguise name is Chuck Aule and he tries to play the part as Daniel's buddy in this new situation.

Close to the introduction of the film, we see the cops handling rifles when Daniels gets out from the ferry, this is because he is a dangerous patient and we have no idea when he is just going to get mad and kill somebody. He has had a short temper ever since the death of his wife and his three children. When you first watch the movie, you don't realise why the cops could be handling the rifles when Teddy is around, that is the genius of Scorsese. Second time around, you notice something odd about the way people act around Andrew, they're scared of him, they try to act civil around him but the freak out!

The one scene where Teddy and Chuck are interviewing patients and he comes across that one female that seems fine, he asks her, "Have you ever seen a patient called Andrew Laeddis?" she answers back, frightened, "Nope, never heard of him" and runs out crying, that is because she is legitimately afraid of him.

And if you pay real close attention the name that Teddy gives his wife, Rachael Solando and the detective name he gives himself Teddy Daniels spells out the real names of the two. R A C H A E L S O L A N D O D O L O R E S C H A N E L T E D D Y D A N I E L S A N D R E W L A E D D I S

Definitely check this movie out, my favourite film of the 2010's and by far one of my favourite psychological thrillers. Grade: A+
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