Los ojos de Julia(Julia's Eyes)

"Los ojos de Julia(Julia's Eyes)"(2010/Spain)

Synopsis

After the death of the blind Sara, who hung herself in the basement of her house, her twin sister Julia suspects that she was actually murdered. Julia has a degenerative problem in her eyes and is losing her sight and she temporarily moves with her husband Isaac to Sara's house to arrange her funeral. Julia goes to the Centro Baumann for blinds where Sara frequented and she learns from the others blind users that Sara had a boyfriend. Julia is chased by a mysterious man but the police inspector Dimas does not believe on her. Julia follows the last steps of Sara trying to find the identity of her secret lover. Julia is surrounded by deaths and weird events while she loses her sight.

Julia was convinced that someone had killed Sara. Although she was worried that she might be blind, she tried to find Sara's killer.

This movie had a quick and lively tempo until half of the story and I was interested to speculate who the killer was. But the other half, the story was just like any other mystery movie with the presence of a madman. 

While Julia had a surgery and a bandage on her eyes, the screen didn't show Julia was talking with. The audience felt uneasy as if they feel almost like the blind character. The camera work of the scene was the best in this movie!

In Sara's house the killer was exploring opportunities to kill Julia and when he cornered her in the living room, she switched off the breaker to hide from him. He used the flash of camera to find her. This scene reminded me of the ending of the movie"The Silence of the Lambs".

The killer died the same as other crime movies and Julia realized how her dead husband loved her so much. Although  the surgery failed , she seemed happy because she could live with the eyes that her husband had given her.

My rating:★★

SHUTTER ISLAND

"SHUTTER ISLAND"(2009/U.S.A)
Synopsis
It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy's shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.

Teddy tried to solve a mysterious incident in the island which is isolated from the rest of the world. But he was a patient of the asylum before and he still seemed to suffer from a mental illness.
Teddy was being tested whether he was already completely cured from his mental illness and if he is not he has to be taken to surgical lobotomy.
It was difficult for me to distinguish which scene he was sane and which was not. But in the last scene Teddy said that "Which is worse to live as a monster or die as a good man."  I believe he was definitely sane from the beginning until the end and he chose to die as a good man.
My interpretation of the ending is something like this but I think there are some other interpretations.
This movie is perfect for first-class suspense story and the music is also cool too. Several soundtrack of this movie was composed by John Cage. ( His music is quite unique and he was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde.)　 His music added suspense to the movie.

My rating:★★★★