2011-11-30
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:★★★★
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I think that Teddy wakes up to the reality that he is actually Andrew Laeddis. However, Andrew is smart because when Dr. Sheehan sits with him on the steps that next morning, Andrew knew that the doctors and Warden are observing his behavior. The thing is, his guilt and pain are still so heavy that he knows he cannot live with them and rather than live with the knowledge of his pain, he chose to pretend that he is still Teddy and let them lobotomize him so that he can finally be free of his burden. He definitely wants to die as a good man. Great review Yuki! :)
ReplyDeleteI watched the movie a year and a half ago, but I'm very impressed the story.I was shocked that the lobotomy surgery really existed in the past. However, the fact made this story into a more mysterious and fearful.
ReplyDeleteYou and I are the same interpretation of the ending! Thanks for your comment:D