Shutter Island

Alone in Bad Company: A Dissection of Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island

Shutter Island
Leonardo DiCaprio as Teddy Daniels

Martin Scorsese has seen it all. After a two-score year long journey in which he had experienced the highs and the lows of the business, the director has frequently been hailed ‘America’s greatest living filmmaker’ in recent years and was finally even awarded the elusive Academy Award for Best Achievement in Directing for The Departed in 2007. Quite an accomplishment, a few might say, for someone who seems to be out-of-time in the Hollywood industry for various reasons.

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