Shutter Island
Great film, great pacing, another amazing Dicaprio performance, the run he goes on from 2010 to 2012/13 is one of the best in cinema history and him doing both shutter island and inception in one year is magnificent. I do think this role is a testament to him, reflecting his paranoia, fear, delusion yet sanity. He gives you just enough to believe his delusion but not enough for you to totally believe he is insane. He really is quite clearly the number one actor of his generation and honestly for me (as a huge Al Pacino fan) might be the best ever. I believe that from shutter island and inception up to now with OBAA, OUATINY and the revenant to name a few cements him in that conversation putting him at least top 3. The film itself is brilliant and on rewatch you see a lot more and begin to put the pieces together more so than on recollection. The idea of the island is creepy in itself and provides an already scary basis, knowing they cannot leave on top of some of the patients makes a really tense film and of course the last 30 minutes is definitely for me, the best part of the film, the idea they gave Andrew the whole run of the island is CRAZY and coupled with him being the 67th patient is bizarre, but my favourite bit from the film is the very ending, ‘is it better to live as a monster, or die as a good man’ - his sanity was semi restored but now he has accepted it how is he suppose to live knowing what he knows about himself. Brilliant film one of Scorseses best.