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Movie projectors have shutters that regulate the output of light and cameras have shutters that regulate the intake of light. So it is, then, that Martin Scorsese’s “Shutter Island” takes on a reflexivity reminiscent of the work of two of Scorsese’s idols, Alfred Hitchcock and Michael Powell. ==I — PC ==

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