Shutter Island Mental Illness

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Shutter Island
Desmond Delaney
Brown Mackie College

This film called Shutter Island, tells a story that happened in 1954; officer teddy and his partner chuck were sent to investigate the site of a missing women killer from a mental hospital. The hospital is located on an island called Shutter Island. It is mainly admitted to those who have mental illness. But under calm exterior, seems to hide many secrets. Teddy does not think he is mentally ill but through the movie it shows that he is mentally ill by the flashbacks he has with his wife, also the flashbacks he has with his children and the interaction he had with George Noyce.

I think disorder was accurately portrayed in this film. For example, teddy always has a flashback and hallucinations in his head about his deceased wife. Teddy seems to have created a made up character in his head named Andrew Laeddis who is allegedly responsible for killing his wife. Teddy is driven by his revenge on Andrew that he could not see that this was all a game and he was the main player in it. It first starts off when he stays the night on the island and dreams about his wife and she is telling him that Rachel Solandro, then she starts to fade away and starts to bleed from her …show more content…

The reason it comes off as strange is because throughout the movie the little girls continues to say, “You could have saved me you could have saved us all” (Scorsese, 2010). Then he cries and said he tried but it was too late. When he said that then it became aware that he had knew the child prior to this investigation and if that was a real investigation he couldn’t have knew those children because he had never met anyone there and have never been on the island before. That was obviously a clue that he was mentally ill and towards the end of the movie it shows that the little girl was his daughter and his wife had killed her and his two other

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