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  I. Locus  Inmate Billings, stripped to the waist, his body aged taut like a dancer’s, wraps arms around a thrashing DiCaprio and mounts him, mashing screaming cop face against the dripping chain link fencing of a badly lit stairwell.   II. Quotatio
  III. Orientation  Adapted for the screen by Martin Scorsese and Laeta Kalogridis in 2010, Dennis Lehane’s  Shutter Island  is set in 1954, eight years after the United States’ most recent iteration of federally-enforced relocation—some one hundred
  IV. Exposition  Thankfully, several twists later, we are given the straight dope: DiCaprio’s investigation of the disappearance of an institutionalized woman, leading to the discovery of her facility’s experimentation with psychotropic drugs and id
  V. Concessions  Still, we love Leo and we need the police and we are terrified of these places that we build and our only definitions of rape require the assailed to be visibly overpowered by a shuddering, half-naked man panting into an ear.
  VI. Revisions:  For  Shutter Island  to have truly succeeded, appropriate funding and media hype would have been secured for the production of a sequel, a work of such simultaneous depth and immediacy, all viewers, near and far, would be in the pro
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