Shutter Island
Very musically driven. Teddy doesn’t see himself as on the same level as the patients.
Why is the holocaust such a topic to keep going back to for terrible filler to stories? Is it because it was a real event and there could not ever be something so terrible someone could imagine.
Paralleling that the Nazis are the same as us.
Rats flooding from the inside of the island. Signifying death?
We are all the same. The dispicable acts of our enemies are mirrors of our own darkness within
So after thinking it was one movie you are led to come to the conclusion of how they come to a breakthrough. This whole movie is teddys dellusipn and Teddy is really Andrew. An idea that has been used before. It wasn’t as huge of a surprise as they would want it to be. It might have actually been more of a twist to keep it with what was originally being set up. The idea that you know you are being setup for a twist has you asking the questions that lead you to not be surprised by tge ending but almost guessing it aside from a few details here and there.
I did like the movie. Thought it was well done and looked good. The actual twist and questionable part of the movie came at the end with this line,
What would be worse. To live as a monster or die as a good man?
Leaves you to ask if he wasn’t on purpose playing as if he had regressed again. The fact that his mind so badly wanted to erase his past would male his new solution of a labotomy a permanent change in reality you can’t break from. Shutter
