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Shutter Island takes place on Shutter Island which houses the Ashecliff Hospital for the Criminally Insane, in 1954. A U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels comes to the island to investigate the disappearance of a patient.
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Plot. In 1954, U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his new partner Chuck Aule travel to Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane on the inhospitable Shutter Island, Boston Harbor, to investigate the disappearance of Rachel Solando, a patient of the hospital who had previously drowned her three children.
Shutter Island is a novel by American writer Dennis Lehane, published by HarperCollins in April 2003. It is about a U.S. Marshal who goes to an isolated hospital for the criminally insane to investigate the disappearance of a patient who is a multiple murderer.
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One movie that reserved a tranquil space in my mind is ‘Shutter Island’. ‘Shutter Island’ frankly was the first movie that made me question my thinking and judgement, and consider the medium of films seriously. It was released the same year as ‘Inception’, with Nolan‘s mindbender receiving a mile wider acclaim despite its narrative and structural f...
Starting with the first scene where we are introduced to Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) who is suffering from a bout of sea-sickness and complains about water. Notice how we are given no background whatsoever and are straight up brought to this scene, signifying the character’s weakness, a very odd beginning to create a doubt in the viewers’ min...
Fire and Water play a significant role in the movie with the former drawing Teddy towards the truth he made up and the latter forcing him to accept the real truth, the one he had buried. In the scene where we are first introduced to Dolores, we see her back burning like a lump of coal when she turns around and starts moving away from Teddy, symboli...
There’s an interesting scene towards the end, when Teddy blows up the car. He is persistent on finding the truth and completely disregards Dolores, and uses a memento of her love to torch the car. The car does explode, with brilliant contrast to his own ever-amplifying implosion, and his mind brings his daughter and Dolores in the same frame for th...
Overall, ‘Shutter Island’ is a terrific film and one of the most intelligent films of this decade overloaded with symbolism that justifies Scorsese’s immortal stature. The narrative according to many critics is weak but it is an adaptation and has a moral responsibility to stick to its source material but Roger Ebert rightfully said “You may read r...
Feb 1, 2010 · Off the coast of Massachusetts is rather grim, gray, and forbidding Shutter Island, a penal colony for the criminally insane. Federal marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule are sent there to find a woman prisoner who has apparently disappeared. But how and where did she go? The island is heavily guarded, as is the twice-weekly supply ferry.
Apr 1, 2003 · U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down upon them. But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. And neither is Teddy Daniels.
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