Watching Shutter Island. It's pretty good. It reminds me a lot about how I felt playing The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles DLC. Being on an island of crazies, unable to leave, drives you crazy, especially when there is a conspiracy against you. Something not right on the island. TES IV was really among the best games ever, it's terrifying. Slowburn bone chilling analog horror. And it's a true story too. All of it. But I digress...
The way the movie progresses is great. As the secrets of the island are uncovered, and as Marshall Daniels slowly loses his shit, the environment descends from the idyllic (the lower campus for the functional crazies, and the psych guy's house) into the chaotic (the rainstorm and the pandemonium following the power outage) and finally into the downright otherworldly and hellish (the catacomb-like maximum-security ward, which reminds me also of the underworld of Dark Souls as well as Bosch's view of the underworld). The movie always keeps you on your toes as to what's real and what's fake, only revealing the truth at the end which I will not spoil. When Daniels returns to the main area of the island it is the same, but also different -- it is now dilapidated, jaded, and cloudy due to the storm. The reality of what goes on beneath the surface.
The movie is a bit "woke", trying to act like Dachau was a "death camp" and not just a plague-ridden, starving work camp (much of Germany even outside the camps was close to starvation). Talking about Nazi medical experiments... As if the Japanese weren't much worse in that regard. The Mengele stuff is mostly made up, like Dachau this is even something many mainstream holocaust historians accept. But it is mostly compelling thoughts on the Lobotomy era. I think a lot of the conspiracy guys on here would like this movie
The way the movie progresses is great. As the secrets of the island are uncovered, and as Marshall Daniels slowly loses his shit, the environment descends from the idyllic (the lower campus for the functional crazies, and the psych guy's house) into the chaotic (the rainstorm and the pandemonium following the power outage) and finally into the downright otherworldly and hellish (the catacomb-like maximum-security ward, which reminds me also of the underworld of Dark Souls as well as Bosch's view of the underworld). The movie always keeps you on your toes as to what's real and what's fake, only revealing the truth at the end which I will not spoil. When Daniels returns to the main area of the island it is the same, but also different -- it is now dilapidated, jaded, and cloudy due to the storm. The reality of what goes on beneath the surface.
The movie is a bit "woke", trying to act like Dachau was a "death camp" and not just a plague-ridden, starving work camp (much of Germany even outside the camps was close to starvation). Talking about Nazi medical experiments... As if the Japanese weren't much worse in that regard. The Mengele stuff is mostly made up, like Dachau this is even something many mainstream holocaust historians accept. But it is mostly compelling thoughts on the Lobotomy era. I think a lot of the conspiracy guys on here would like this movie
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