Review Shutter Island

Hey, Assalamualaikum masih lagi di bulan ramadhan yang ke 21, masih lagi berpuasa dan menahan lapar dan dahaga. This is the last weeks of the July, next month we'll celebrate Aidil Fitri and I haven't really done much except buying new baju raya, jaga kedai di Hypermarket Kulai, be a babysitter for my beloved, nephew Ariff Zafry and helping my mom by doing household chores.

Semalam masa jaga Arif, I tengok movie dekat NTV7, Shutter Island, mulanya malas nak tengok, sebab start lambat sangat pukul 11:00 malam, lepas tu nanti mesti habis lambat pukul 1 pagi, nanti susah pulak I nak bangun sahur, konon-konon tunggulah iklan baru tutup tv, but then, iklan dia sangat la sekejap, tak sempat nak pergi toilet, cerita dah main balik kat tv, tengok info, macam best, sebab I memang peminat cerita seram, tapi takut tengok sorang-sorang, plus, cerita ni tak lah seram ada hantu pun, just macam hallusination, psycho, thriller, mental macam tuh je, so tak da hal la tengok sorang-sorang, tuh Arif pun ada, tapi dia tidur la..ahahha..

Tapi sebenarnya tengok movie nih sebab ada Leonardo di Caprio, rasanya movie ni macam baru sebab dia nih dah kurang handsome dari masa acting dalam Titanic dulu, Ahahaha...

Mula-mula tengok cerita nih, tak da la suspen mana pun, mula-mula cerita terus ada kapal besar dan dua orang Marshal sibuk nak siasat kes seorang perempuan yang hilang atau melarikan diri dekat sebuah hospital mental di sebuah pulau, salah seorang marshal tuh, tentulah si pelakon utama Leonardo di Caprio. Malas pulak nak cerita, so I dah copy paste siap-siap sinopsis dia di sini.. :) suka tak? ehehhe...

"In 1954, two U.S. Marshals, Edward "Teddy" Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner, Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo), travel to the Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insaneon Shutter Island located in Boston Harbor, as part of an investigation into the disappearance of patient Rachel Solando (Emily Mortimer), incarcerated for drowning her three children. Shortly after arrival, a storm prevents their return to the mainland for several days. Daniels finds the staff confrontational: the lead psychiatrist, Dr. John Cawley (Ben Kingsley), refuses to hand over records of the hospital staff; Solando's doctor, Dr. Sheehan, had left on vacation after her disappearance, and they are barred from searching Ward C and told that the lighthouse on the island has already been searched.

Daniels starts having migraine headaches, waking visions of his involvement in the Dachau liberation reprisals, and disturbing dreams of his wife, Dolores Chanal (Michelle Williams), who was killed in a fire set by arsonist Andrew Laeddis (Elias Koteas). In one dream, Chanal tells Daniels that Solando is still on the island, as is Laeddis. Daniels later explains to Aule that locating Laeddis was an ulterior motive for taking the case.

As Daniels and Aule continue their investigation, they find that Solando has been found by the staff with no explanation. With neither the staff nor patients helping, Daniels decides to break into Ward C, and eventually meets George Noyce (Jackie Earle Haley), another patient. Noyce warns Daniels that Ashecliffe is performing questionable experiments on its patients, and sends the incurable to the lighthouse to be lobotomized. As Daniels leaves, Noyce asserts that everyone on the island, including Aule, is playing in a game designed for Daniels.

Daniels regroups with Aule and they make their way to the lighthouse, but as they attempt to traverse the cliffs, they become separated. Daniels finds a woman hiding in a cave, claiming to be the real Rachel Solando (Patricia Clarkson). The woman asserts she was a former psychiatrist at Ashecliffe until she discovered the experiments with psychotropic medication in an attempt to develop mind control techniques. When she attempted to alert the authorities, she was committed as a patient. Leaving the woman, Daniels finds no sign of Aule, and returns to the hospital. Dr. Cawley claims that Daniels arrived alone, with no evidence of Aule ever being there.

Determined but confused, Daniels returns to the lighthouse and breaks into it. At the top, he finds Dr. Cawley waiting for him. Cawley explains that Andrew Laeddis is actually Daniels himself, "[their] most dangerous patient", incarcerated in Ward C for murdering hismanic depressive wife after she drowned their children. According to Dr. Cawley, the events of the past several days have been designed to break Laeddis' conspiracy-laden insanity by allowing him to play out the role of Daniels, an anagram of his name. The hospital staff, including Dr. Sheehan posing as Aule and a nurse posing as Rachel Solando, were part of the test, and the migraines that Laeddis suffered were withdrawal symptoms from his medication. As memories of reality overwhelm Laeddis, he faints.

Laeddis awakes in the hospital, under watch of Dr. Cawley and Sheehan. When questioned, Laeddis tells the truth in a coherent manner, which satisfies the doctors as a sign of progression. Nevertheless, Dr. Cawley notes that they had achieved this state nine months before but Laeddis had quickly regressed, and further warns that this will be Laeddis' last chance. Some time later, Laeddis relaxes on the hospital grounds with Dr. Sheehan, but calls him "Chuck" and says they need to get off the island. Sheehan nods to an observing Cawley, who gestures to the orderlies towards Laeddis. As he is about to be taken away, Laeddis asks Dr. Sheehan, "Which would be worse? To live as a monster, or die as a good man?". Dr. Sheehan is visibly surprised at how rational and relevant this question is, and after being taken aback for a moment he calls out "Teddy?', but Laeddis ignores him, quietly walking away with the orderlies to be taken to the lighthouse and, finally, lobotomized."

Last kali, rupanya Leonardo tu pun salah seorang pesakit mental kat situ jugak, sebab dia depress, isteri yang dia sayang dah bunuh 3 orang anak mereka... Macam tuh la cerita dia...Ekot kan hati I bagi 4 bintang, movie ni best, sebab jalan ceritanya kita tak dapat baca, teka atau buat andaian sendiri..so harap filem melayu dapat buat movie macam nih,...movie melayu tengok thriller pon dah tahu ending dia macam mana, kan tak best cam tuh...but, I still watching movie melayu, support la sikit-sikit. :) 

Nilah kawan dia "Chuck" konon-konon Marshal jugak, rupanya itu doktor yang merawat dia.

Happy watching guys.