Giosue' Agius

The recurring theme and element of ''water, sea, drowning and rain'' is predominantly strong in this movie, I was surprised at how much the world of Shutter island was full with water, even when he's dreaming and awakes in a ''sweat'' - the water that is in contradiction with the burning fire assosciated with the death of the main character's wife. It is nothing short of art and a masterpiece. One cannot excpect less from a Scorsese film. Briliant casting as well, Leonardo DiCaprio establishes himself as an ''actor'' in this film, in my opinion DiCaprio's best film to close the 2010 decade. Meanwhile Ben Kingsley, no matter what role you give Kingsley he is always a shining beacon, a professional actor. I've never been dissapointed by Kinglsey apperances in movies, if anything Kingsley has that quality of a charistmatic shine, that always elevates the movies that he takes part in, even if he is just playing a supporting role.

We haven't had this kind of intriguing show in years, the masses have been thirsting for ''Stories'' and the show does the characters massive justice. The Production is glorious, unlike anything we have seen these last 15 years. Although it certainly is a wide-reaching show, it is by no means a blockbuster show, financially successfull and filled with ''laser beams effect'' - while the visual effects are glorious, the stories and the progression of each episode, leaves you yearning for more, not through ''cheap cliffhangers'' and tongue and cheek, but through the amazing world the production has created that thus the audience is never bored with it.

This movie sucked - although it has great actors and I don't blame the actors, I blame the writing, the screen play and the direction the movie takles. While watching it, there is a constant sense of the movie trying to shove feminist ideas down my throat. - I get it, it's a feminist movie, but the movie doesn't have to shove it down my throat every five minutes. If the movie had taken a subtle approach to feminism, I would have appreciated it more, you don't need to ''Spoon feed me the idea or the message of feminism'' - the protagonists and the characters make constant blunt remarks, it's not even a challenge. A mystery must be ''challenging'' and the characters constantly being blunt about feminism isn't mysterious, nor challenging at all to recognize. A mystery needs to provoke a challenge to the audience, not ''downplay or downscale the feminism and the mystery and try to spoon feed it to the audience'' - While being in the audience I felt like some idiotic individual being fed feminist lines by the characters, as if ''the directors thought that the masses are so ignorant, that they need to literally be spoon-fed certain political ideas'' The movie makes the audience look like an ''Idiot'' basically and that is not a wonderful feeling to experience in cinema. The movie needed more challenge, more mystery and also needed to be ''Subtle about the feminist question'' - if they managed to tie in the complexities of feminism with the mystery of the movie, it would have made a better movie. Don't get me wrong, I'm not an anti-feminist, I'm just dissapointed in the way feminism was portrayed and delivered to the audience. The only reason i gave it one star is because I couldn't give it zero stars. The character of Sherlock Holmes is pretty much destroyed, and the feminist rhetoric shoved down our throats make the ''Feminist idealization'' more important than the ''audience's intellectual capabilities'' - In simple words, the audience is insulted while the movie's feminist idealization is elavated beyond the audience, such that the audience can no longer relate to the characters but literally ''Hate the characters in the movie'' The movie is a mess and doesn't do ''Enola'' justice, I didn't see great detective skills being displayed by Enola. This could have been a great movie with a great preface for an idea, sadly it turned out to be a dissapointment. The only reason why this movie has ''Holmes'' in the title is because the movie-makers trying to use the name of Holmes for profit-making. Not only was the audience robbed of their intelligence in this movie, but they where also robbed of their money and expectations.