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is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face. Shutter Island
Leonardo DiCaprio is a federal marshall sent to an ‘insane asylum’ because one of the patients has disappeared. He and his partner uncover a conspiracy – the institute is not just for housing the criminally insane, but the doctors are also performing testing with the patients in order to make them feel no pain – perfect soldiers.
Some of the testing includes drug ingestion which causes hallucinations, and our hero has been having quite a few hallucinations in his time there.
As they explore the island, searching for the missing patient, they uncover more and more proof that what they’ve been told about the experiments must be true. However, since there’s only an on-demand ferry to get on and off the island, will our hero ever get off or will he be captive because he’s learned the truth?
There’s a good twist to the movie, one that I had already guessed, and I was hoping for another twist to the twist but it didn’t happen. You’ll find out at the end.
It was a good movie, albeit a little slow moving. But well done. Go ahead and rent it. I’d watch it again.
The Fourth Kind
This movie is about some strange goings-on in Nome, Alaska. Strange as in alien abductions/dream sightings/insomnia that get wiped from your memory except under hypnosis, and even then, the memories are so scary that the dreamers react violently.
This movie is based on truth and throughout the movie they show actual film footage of Dr. Taylor (who documented the interviews) and was interviewed, along with some of the townspeople whom she hypnotized.
The movie kept my attention. As a matter of fact, half-way through the movie, I started believing that alien encounters actually existed – especially when I saw all this footage. At the same time, seeing the footage not only made it believable, but was a source of irritation to me when the real doctor was shown alongside the actor (Mila Jovovich) who played her.
By the end of the movie I started thinking that the Dr. was a nut case and that none of this was true. However, that doesn’t explain anything that happened.
Decide for yourself. Rent the movie.