For the Criminally Insane
June 7th – June 14th
I spent the good part of the week at the 10th Annual deadCENTER Film Festival. Commentary on what I watched during the festival can be found in those posts. Somehow I did mange to watch something else. I don’t know how.
Shutter Island — It’s Scorsese. So it’s not bad. And I liked it better than The Departed. But I certainly didn’t love it. Part of that is certainly due to knowing in advance about the plot “twist.” In the end, it seemed Shyamalan (twist ending) meets Tarantino (cinematic pastiche) via Hitchcock (cinematically Vertigo-ish). I even liked some of the quirky touches–the rear-projection, the continuity errors, and the bombastic score. But the true test of a film like this is how well it plays upon second viewings. It’s just that it left me so unexcited that I don’t really see myself watching it again. It’s good enough that I’d recommend it, but not good enough for me to remember it.
