Sammy Kate’s Reviews > Shutter Island > Status Update

…the doctor explains that the schizophrenic female patient [that escaped] doesn’t simply hallucinate — she builds intricate, self-reinforcing stories to explain her reality, adding detail after detail until the listener is overwhelmed and stops questioning the logic altogether. [paraphrase of long quote]

The island is already its own character—shrouded in fog and mystery, it seems to watch you as you arrive..