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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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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.
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.
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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...
Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane’s 2003 psychological thriller, investigates how a person’s mental state can shape their perspective of reality. The prologue opens with an excerpt from Dr. Lester Sheehan’s diary dated May 3rd, 1993.
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Jan 21, 2010 · In a masterful departure from the Boston-based hard-boiled mysteries, bestselling author Dennis Lehane offers an atmospheric psychological thriller set in a 1950s asylum for the criminally insane.
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