…of who’s-the-madman-and-who’s-the-physician, who’s-the-subject-and-who’s-the-object, lunatics-taking-over-the-asylum pictures…have you watched The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari again recently?
This granddaddy of all such cinematic visions is particularly pertinent to Shutter Island, I think…
Jacquers Tourneur’s Out of the Past, too. Scorsese said that the viewer is never quite sure where they are in Out of the Past. Same can be said about Shutter Island. Okay…time to watch Dr. Caligari.
Haven’t seen this in about ten years. I need to pick up that DVD.
Scorsese did use the term “The Cabinet of Dr. Scorsese” when referring to his latest in a recent interview.