Reality Bites

Sausage Fingers and I found ourselves in the rare position of having nothing to do in the middle of the day, on a school day and as is the way when you're out of practice, we were at a loss as to what to do with ourselves. I mean we had absolutely no obligations that day.  No contracts to tie off, no packing, no shipping, no paper signing, no selling possessions and with The Lish at daycare, it was like we'd turned back the clock 6 years so we decided to go see a movie like lovers in the Spring, 'cept it ain't Spring here in Ontario...and...oh you get the jist.

We settled on Shutter Island with Leo di Caprio, directed by Scorsese - a movie dream team.   And we were not disappointed.  In fact it gave us so much food for thought that afterwards, we kept missing our turn offs to get home, so engrossed in silent dissection were we, but we came to this conclusion: when reality bites, insanity isn't so bad.  Oh but it gets darker than that, however, in terms of detail, I can only really tell you what the trailer does without spoiling it for you. 

The story revolves around the chase for a prisoner who has escaped from a mental institute for the criminally insane.  Leo plays the US Marshall in charge of the case.  There is only one way on and off the island - by heavily guarded ferry.  The suspense is arresting and Leo is gorgeously disarming as a 1950s police officer.  Golly,  he really is a saucy bit of alright.  I always thought Leo had a face like a fish - eyes on the side of his head, but he's grown into those features since Who's Eating Gilbert Grape and what the hell, he is also a fine, fine actor.

All I will say is that Shutter Island does for insanity and psychiatry what Obama did for America.

Here's another reality that bit - I finally went to get my left foot X-rayed and look what they found (yes that's a broken 5th metatarsal):

The only good thing about this is that maybe I'll get wheeled to the front of the queue on Thursday when I check in to my flight home.