Shutter Island

Weird. Not weird like Memento, weird because in the middle I was really confused and wasn't sure about anything. Films that can make you do that are real psychological thrillers- they mess with your head in the best way with hopefully no lasting damage.

Leonardo DiCaprio stars and once again firmly reminds everyone that you should judge based on each performance and that actually he is a better actor than he was in Beaches and Titanic. Yes, he has recently made some rubbish films (Wolf of Wall Street, The Revenant) but overall he has made a lot of awesome and really cool films. Paired with Mark Ruffalo (who is featuring a lot on the blog at the moment and I apologise for that but I had no idea that he was in any of these films so it's just coincidence that he is featuring as much as he is) and opposite Ben Kingsley (who typically is the evil guy) they investigate an asylum on an Island after a woman disappears from it.

Neo Noir style film and once again a completely different type of neo-noir film to anything else seen on the blog over the years. Not like Sin City but also not like Batman Begins and I love that about it. What this blog is doing is opening up the world of film and the world of every genre bringing every individuals interpretation and creativity to the blog and to the world. Taking Psychological to a new level, not psychotic where everyone is completely crazy, just the ability to confuse you constantly until the end where everything makes sense. You have to watch this film all the way to the end in order to actually understand this film.

Ability and talent in abundance shines throughout this film from start to finish. No one person is to take the credit for this film, every bar set by one actor was met and extended by another. Whatever Leo can do Mark can do but whatever they can do Ben can also do. By the end of the film I was left trying to work out if anything was real but after thinking about it and trying to logically connect everything that had happened in the film I realised that yes, half of it was real and that by the end everything is explained. This is a film that you could watch over and over again just to make sure that you have understood everything and, if we are being honest, just to admire the talent on display.