Wild, but Not Crazy Enough: Scorsese's Shutter Island, by Alan Miller

from Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island

It's good news that somebody, let alone a director of Martin Scorsese's calibre, has finally recognized the highly cinematic creepiness of the Boston Harbour Islands. The opening scenes of Shutter Island reminded me of school excursions to those islands, which have the feel of a mid-ocean archipelago, rather than land sheltered by a harbour. Thankfully, no school excursion ever went as badly as the one on the film. I always got off the island.

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Michael Miller