Shutter Island

This movie’s ending is a case study in how to read movies. If you consider what was said before, what was done before, and the basics of the character’s journey, there is literally only one way to read the movie’s final moments. Everything up to that moment builds to the finale is designed to feed a specific end point, and it helps the movie as a whole that everything up to that point is incredibly well done. Scorsese had one early foray into big budget filmmaking with New York, New York, wh...