Shutter Island

It's been so long since I've seen a high-impact-psychological thriller this catching!

I've just arrived from having watched Martin Scorsese's "Shutter Island" at the movies and I must tell you that it's tremendous and really good.

It's based on the novel by Dennis Lehane, who already wrote other novels which were adapted for cinema as "Mystic River" and "Gone, baby, gone" and has Leonardo di Caprio playing the main role. He's fantastical, as his fellow cast members: Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sidow and Michelle Williams.

The movie is dark, dense and long (2 hours 20 min, but you won't notice...), not at all a walk in the park... in fact, it's quite the opposite: the story develops on a prison for lunatics located on an impossible-to-escape island, 18 km from Boston during the 1950s...

But I won't tell you more, or I'll kill all the intrigue...

Just one thing: di Caprio may date the model of the season and change her for another as he ages... and this not because of this good looks, but simply because he is "a big star, maybe the big one..."