Shutter Island

This past week I watched the movie Shutter Island starring Leonardo DiCaprio.  This may be one of my favorite movies of all time.  For those of you who have not seen the work of art, DiCaprio is a U.S. court Marshall that goes to an island full of the most mentally insane patients in the U.S.  He requests this case specifically because a man by the name of Andrew Laeddis set his apartment on fire and killed his wife.  DiCaprio or Edward Daniels in the movie starts to think that everyone that is working on the island is crazy and trying to make him stay there forever.  It turns out that Edward Daniels is in fact crazy himself.  He is Andrew Laeddis and killed his wife because she drowned their three children and he made up this story in his head to forgive himself. 

When this film ended, I sat there with my mouth open for about fifteen minutes straight.  I could not believe what the producer had done with this.  Throughout the entire movie the audience is convinced that DiCaprio is a U.S. court Marshall and that he is a sane person stuck on an insane island.  When the film reveals that he is the crazy one, it is like your mind begins to have a brain freeze.  This director of this film did an amazing job piecing it together and created a great work of art because of it.