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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.Shutter Island is a thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The film is based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane. Production started in March 2008. Shutter Island was originally slated to be released on October 2, 2009, but Paramount pushed the release date to February 19, 2010.Production took place in Taunton, Massachusetts to film World War II flashback scenes of DiCaprio's character, a former soldier. Scorsese filmed the scenes in old industrial buildings in Taunton's Whittenton Mills Complex to replicate Dachau, a World War II concentration camp seen in flashbacks. Extras portraying the Dachau prisoners were called back to reshoot a scene in July, due to the film of one scene being damaged due to an improperly sealed film shipping container. Scenes were filmed at the old Medfield State Hospital in Medfield, Massachusetts. Originally, scenes were going to be shot at the old Worcester State Hospital, but the filming would have gone on during the demolition of the surrounding buildings, so filming was impractical. Peddocks Island was used as a setting for the story's island and East Point, in Nahant, Massachusetts for the lighthouse scenes.Filming ended on July 2, 2008.[8] Additional footage was filmed in Los Angeles and wrapped in July 2009.

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio
Ben Kingsley
Mark Ruffalo
Michelle Williams
Patricia Clarkson
Emily Mortimer
Ted Levine
John Carroll Lynch
Elias Koteas
Jackie Earle Haley
and Max von Sydow

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Shutter Island: Movie Review & Free Download Link

Author: VishalVikas

 

Martin Scorsese makes movies as if his life depends on it, never skimping on ferocity and feeling. From Mean Streets to The Departed, Scorsese's crime films turn the genre on its empty head, shaking out the clichés to uncover the violence of the mind. His latest, Shutter Island, sizzles with so much nerve-frying suspense that it's hot to the touch. The time is 1954. The place is Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, located off Boston Harbor on a remote island that's locked as tight as Alcatraz. A Category 5 hurricane is brewing as U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his partner, Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), ferry in to capture Rachel Solando, a killer of her own children who's escaped from her cell. The Gothic terror kicks in when the storm literally breaks down walls and the patients run amok, along with their darkest secrets. See it twice and double your fun. Just don't expect your head to stop spinning.

Peter Travers reviews Shutter Island in his weekly video podcast, "At the Movies With Peter Travers."

Cinema is in Scorsese's DNA, so movie lovers can play a game finding references that extend through film noir (Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past), horror (Val Lewton's The Seventh Victim), war trauma (Karl Malden's Time Limit), phantasmagoria (Sam Fuller's Shock Corridor), Hollywood's version of asylum life (Anatole Litvak's Snake Pit) and the terrifying real thing in Frederick Wiseman's landmark documentary Titicut Follies.

Get more news, reviews and interviews from Peter Travers on The Travers Take.

You don't need to know any of these films to appreciate Shutter Island, since Scor­sese reshapes them into something uniquely his own. But those references tip you off that the director is hunting bigger game than thrills. Set in a time of lobotomy surgery, radical drug experiments, mind-control conspiracies, Cold War paranoia and A-bomb dread, the film demands that you stay alert if you want to stay ahead of the bombshell climax. No hints, figure it out yourself.

DiCaprio, in his most haunting and emotionally complex performance yet, is the vessel Scorsese uses to lead us through the film's laby­rinth. Adapted from Dennis Lehane's novel by Laeta Kalogridis (Pathfinder), the twisty — maybe too twisty — script lets us know Teddy is a hard-drinking World War II vet with a quick fist. And flashbacks to his strained marriage to Dolores (Michelle Williams) show equal trauma at home. But mostly we see Teddy during his four days on Shutter Island. Seasick on the ferry in, Teddy tries to get to know his new partner (Ruffalo is reliably superb). The byplay between these two gifted actors rewards careful attention.

On the island, the marshals meet Ashecliffe's head man, Dr. Cawley, played by Ben King­sley with just the right blend of wry wit and menace. To Cawley, everyone is a potential patient. His eyes seem to be everywhere. The great Max Von Sydow has the role of Dr. Naehring, who brings with him the aura of Nazi threat. It doesn't take long for Teddy to figure nothing is what it seems.

It takes a hurricane to knock down barriers. Teddy's meeting with the patient Noyce (the excellent Jackie Earle Haley) shakes him, as do his two encounters with the murderous Rachel, played by two exceptional actresses, Emily Mortimer and Patricia Clarkson. DiCaprio's scene in a cave with the terrific Clarkson is one of the film's dramatic highlights. It puts the audience in Teddy's position, caught between reality and hallucination.

With the help of cinematographer Robert Richardson, production designer Dante Ferretti, music supervisor Robbie Robertson and editing whiz Thelma Schoonmaker, Scorsese holds us in a vise-like grip. The climactic scene won't be the only thing that leaves you shattered. Scorsese makes dark magic in this mesmerizing mind-bender. No one who lives and breathes movies would dream of missing it.

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