Movie Review: Shutter Island

Last night Mike and I watched the movie "Shutter Island". It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a U.S. Marshal assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from a mental hospital. There are several twists in the movie and once you get to the ending, there's one final big twist. Or is there? Once you've seen the movie, Google "Shutter Island Ending" and look at all of the different theories on what the ending might actually mean!

Here's the IMDB synopsis:

It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy's shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.

My favorite line in the movie is delivered by Leonardo DiCaprio near the end of the movie: "Which would be worse, to live as a monster or die as a good man?" This is a great movie - definitely throw it into your Netflix queue if you haven't already seen it!