Shutter Island

Everyone feels a little crazy sometimes. Maybe the guy in front of you in line at Burger King seems to be dealing with the concept of a menu for the very first time. Maybe everyone is showering praise on a film you just don’t like. Or maybe you’re having vivid dreams of your dead wife interspliced with flashbacks to a traumatic experience liberating the Dachau death camp at the end of World War II. If so, you may seek treatment at a mental health institution, but, uh-oh, it’s only 1954 and that means standards of care at asylums are . . . uh, let’s say substandard. Especially if the facility in question is the one featured in Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese’s 2010 psychological mystery-thriller. This gothic institution for the criminally insane may seem benevolent at first, but soon you’ll hear whispers of illegal experiments, people being lobotomiz ...