I Believe

Shutter Island

I went in thinking it was gonna be another bad Leo DiCaprio movie, but I was pleasantly surprised. He still does the Leo "cramped" face where it looks like his eyebrows are gonna

exchange spots but that one performance was much more interesting than all the other ones I've seen so far. It's kind of a typical story where the main character is stuck in a world that is completely created by his mind. He is convinced that he is a US Marshall investigating this strange asylum- island where "crazy" criminals and such have been sent to have their mind treated, away from the world's judgement. He investigates the disappearance of one of the patients... Nothing works out and after 2 hours of pure delirium, going around in circles with clues that lead to nowhere, it turns out that he is another one of those crazy ex-murderers but he was refusing to admit the truth to himself, creating a second dimensional world around him. Eventually he realizes that he's just trying to escape the truth though. The world he built, the people he created, everything was just so that he could remain happy, safe from that terrible reality. Away from the fact that he killed his wife, who previously had killed their children.... Very cliche, but at the same time... there's a part of real in this.

The part of truth is this one: There are some people who are just absolutely convinced that whatever they do is motivated by righteousness and that they are never to blame for anything that happens in their life nor in the lives of the people surrounding them. That's a great way to live, because no matter how much they use people, deceive people, hurt people, they will never feel like they're to blame in any way. "It's not my fault, this and that happened". "It's not my fault, that person did that". Etc. Etc.

For example (an example I know only too well cuz it relates to my first boyfriend), a man who cheats on his girlfriend for months. He loves her (or so he says) but he cheats on her for various reasons. When she finds out about that fact, she is of course angry and disappointed in him, she feels sad and betrayed. But the man, because he thinks he is right in everything he does, finds nothing else to say than : "You don't understand, this was in our best interest". Well I personally didn't stay with such an irresponsible man, just because I am a bit smarter than this. But let's take another example.. that of a quite stupid girl who's desperately in love with a similar kind of man and thus despite all his hurtful and selfish displays of miserable and spiteful behaviour, she decides to stay with him. But of course, if she has a minimum of a conscience, she'll start getting suspicious and might suspect him of having affairs on the side. This leads to that and they end up breaking up... but the reason of their separation is not that he is an abject moral-free monster. Rather, he blames it on her saying "you couldn't trust me so what kind of love goes without trust?".

Now I don't know if I am the only one to realize the irony here or if this kind of man is just stupid, or just so complacent in the self-image they have made of themselves... but I find absolutely incredible that such beings can be so self-centered, so focused on their own irrational and egoistical attitude that they wouldn't realize the truth and would find a way to blame it on others constantly. And not just blame on others, but also use others for their own benefits. Constantly. And if things don't turn out the way they want, it'll once again be the others' fault. And if they can't receive what they want, it's the others who are selfish. Etc. Etc.

A never-ending cycle of selfishness and a life without responsibility.
But I want to believe that there's a balance to all things.
And when that balance hits, what will be left of those people?... Good question.

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