Monday 28 July 2014

Shutter Island

Also Known As:
Unknown
Year:
2009
Country:
United States…
Predominant Genre:
Mystery
Director:
Martin Scorsese…
Best Performances:
None
Premiss:
A US Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding nearby.
Themes:
Guilt
Compassion
Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
Unknown
Review Format:
DVD

Silly & Derivative

This film has two basic problems it can never overcome:

  1. The lead actor simply cannot act; making us care little for his plight;
  2. plot-wise, if what we initially think is happening was actually happening, it would have been a far more interesting and more satisfying thriller;
    1. there are no significant insights into human nature to justify this movie's over-length; hence, the vain attempt at overly-elaborate plotting to compensate.

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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.



Jacob Bronowski… (1908 - 74), British scientist, author. Encounter (London, July 1971).


Sleep of Reason:



The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.



Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes… (1746-1828), Spanish painter. Caption to Caprichos, number 43, a series of eighty etchings completed in 1798, satirical and grotesque in form.


Humans & Aliens:



I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.



Terence… (circa 190-159 BC), Roman dramatist. Chremes, in The Self-Tormentor [Heauton Timorumenos], act 1, scene 1.


Führerprinzip:



One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves… There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus - in other words, the party - which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Führerprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism.