Shutter Island is a movie directed by Martin Scorsese. The film’s main lead is actor Leonardo DiCaprio as a mentally troubled patient that has trouble with his identity named Andrew. He suffered from PTSD from World War 2, specifically the killing of surrendered Nazi soldiers which is a war crime. During his investigation of the facilities, he is also plagued by visions of his wife, Dolores and his children as well. This makes him an unreliable protagonist. We don’t know what’s real and what is not because of the details he made up. In the end it was revealed that he is Andrew and has been institutionalized for two years. It was also revealed that his mentally unstable wife drowned their children then he killed her. To cope with his guilt he invented an elaborate story of him being in the island trying to find Rachel.
The ending can be interpreted as him accepting that he murdered his wife and is also responsible for the death of his kids. He willingly tricked Chuck so that he would signal Dr. Crawley that he regressed in order to be lobotomized because his pain is too big.
I really enjoyed the film because of the horror movie vibes it gives off. The opening scenes where Shutter Island is introduced was scary. The island was introduced like if it was going to be the setting of a horror film. The ominous weather and the loud tense music helped add to the vibes. The part in which Teddy was in facility C is nan example of how the film was designed to have horror movie vibes. It reminded me of the video game Outlast because of the asylum setting.
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