Shutter Island

     

Shutter Island2010

Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Rating: R
Runtime: 138 minutes

Shutter Island is a novel by American writer Dennis Lehane, published by Harper Collins in April 2003. A film adaptation was released in February 2010. Lehane has said he sought to write a novel that would be a homage to Gothic settings, B movies, a… more »


Warden:
Did you enjoy God's latest gift?

Teddy Daniels:
What?

Warden:
God's gift. Your violence.

[Daniels looks at him blankly]

Warden:
When I came downstairs in my home, and I saw that tree in my living room, it reached out for me... a divine hand. God loves violence.

Teddy Daniels:
I... I hadn't noticed.

Warden:
Sure you have. Why else would there be so much of it? It's in us. It's what we are. We wage war, we burn sacrifices, and pillage and plunder and tear at the flesh of our brothers. And why? Because God gave us violence to wage in his honor.

Teddy Daniels:
I thought God gave us moral order.

Warden:
There's no moral order as pure as this storm. There's no moral order at all. There's just this: can my violence conquer yours?

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