February Book vs Movie: Shutter island

This one is not for the faint-hearted. This month, let's discuss this well-loved psych thriller (4.11 on goodreads) & its 2010 movie - Shutter island.

Where & when:
Location: Oak Eatery, Mall level 2/691 Manukau Road, Royal Oak, Auckland 1023
Time: 11am – 1pm, Sunday, 18 February 2024
What to bring: $3 to cover the meetup fee and an open mind. Since we're using the café’s function room, please order some food or drinks. Let's make it into a brunch & book party!

What we’ll discuss:
We’ll be guided by a list of questions, then the floor is open for discussion. We can talk about anything and everything – the plot, the characters, the writing style, the movie, the cast, etc. If you'd like, you can also bring your favourite paragraph/plot to share with the table. Here, you can let your imagination run wild – do you agree with the way that the author/screenwriter organises the plots? How would you tweak it to make the book/movie even better?

Book/movie synopsis:
The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island, despite having been kept in a locked cell under constant surveillance. As a killer hurricane relentlessly bears down on them, a strange case takes on even darker, more sinister shades—with hints of radical experimentation, horrifying surgeries, and lethal countermoves made in the cause of a covert shadow war. No one is going to escape Shutter Island unscathed, because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. But then neither is Teddy Daniels.

Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21686.Shutter_Island

Cancellation:
If you cannot make it, please cancel your RSVP 24 hours ahead of time so that we can adjust the brunch booking. Thank you.

I look forward to meeting you all!