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Shutter island
Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 7:11 pm
by alhoon
Nice movie there.
Without giving too much out, there was a USS article about an Asylum with ghosts and Icepick therapy.
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 5:43 am
by lostboy
Agreed great movie.
Certainly gives some nice inspiration for Dominia and some lovely plot devices as well.
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 7:32 pm
by Dimitri Mazieres
I saw it yesterday. It was entertaining, but I felt somehow disappointed. After "The Departed", I expected more from a Scorsese/DiCaprio movie. Also, I felt that the plot twist wasn't particularly original, when you take into account other movies (I was going to mention one in particular, but it might be spoiler-y).
Anyway, it's not a waste of time, but I think it won't be awarded any Oscars
Oh, and for a moment, I thought I was going to see an adaptation of the first adventure from Bleak House
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 5:58 pm
by Nukdai
was it a plot twist? and did he know in the end
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 5:16 am
by Ail
Well.... I was reading the plot on wikipedia. Too close to Basic Instintct 2 on some respects, not original there.
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:47 am
by brass
I've got to say I enjoyed it. Not a bad actor in the bunch and I wasn't expect much but was pleasently surprised. Good stuff for gas lighting material.
Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 6:04 am
by Rotipher of the FoS
Nukdai wrote:was it a plot twist? and did he know in the end
And on a related note, did the
doctors suspect he was shamming, and go through with the procedure anyway...?
Re: Shutter island
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 12:11 pm
by Gonzoron of the FoS
I'm only 3 years late to the party. Caught this one over the weekend. Very nicely done. Agreed that it oozed Dominia flavor. Went on a bit long toward the end. I didn't even consider that
Re: Shutter island
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 3:32 pm
by Dark Angel
Gonzoron of the FoS wrote:I'm only 3 years late to the party. Caught this one over the weekend. Very nicely done. Agreed that it oozed Dominia flavor. Went on a bit long toward the end. I didn't even consider that
Well, it is nice to know I am not the only one "late to the party". Shutter was great, knew something was coming (but not to that extent).
Re: Shutter island
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 1:37 pm
by Joël of the FoS
Didn't see the movie, but read the book, which was cool. Indeed, some atmosphere bits were quite cool.
Joël
Re: Shutter island
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 9:31 pm
by Rotipher of the FoS
Gonzoron of the FoS wrote:My only other quibble: would he really be locked away as dangerously insane for what he did? under the circumstances, I think it was almost understandable. Certainly a temporary insanity plea would have worked. I wondered if that defense didn't exist back then, but wiki says it was actually quite popular in that time period.
I'm not sure if the character in question was locked away because
but because the horror of what happened that day drove him to imagine he was someone else, altogether. It's his delusion
and the dangerous extremes to which he went while playing it out, not his prior crime, that got his committed.
Re: Shutter island
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 7:23 am
by Gonzoron of the FoS
Ah, that makes sense, Roti...
Re: Shutter island
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 6:51 pm
by Le Noir Faineant
Read the book, too. The questions formulated by Roti get answered there, pretty much - because it's more of a Kafkaesque experience, than a coherent novel.
As in, you know...
