or the victims from the perpetrators. Since the start of his career, director Martin Scorcese has explored people and violence with films like "Taxi Driver."

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but at the end of the day it is what Martin Scorcese does best and that is portraying something about humanity and human nature and who we are as people."

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With "Shutter Island" Scorcese navigates the shadowy, occasionally invisible line between reality and imagination: "It was revealed to be many different realities and, without giving away too much, there are certainly different levels with the characters."

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Mr. SCORCESE: Well, I think primarily because so many of us have come from immigrant families.

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He describes them as a witty parody mix of Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver and early Jean-Luc Godard gangster movies.

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Mr. SCORCESE: So yeah, it's a very interesting - and right outside - two blocks away - it was America.

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