Shutter Island Explained | Classic Explained Episode 17
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ม.ค. 2022
- Thank you for voting! Shutter Island Ending Explained / Shutter Island Explained / Shutter Island Movie Explained is Episode 17 in the Classic Explained series. I love this movie and I'm really glad it was so highly voted, so here is my analysis and explanation of the movie and the ending. Hope you like it!
Shutter Island starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, Mark Ruffalo, and Michelle Williams, directed by Martin Scorsese is a 2010 psychological thriller horror movie. Tune into this Lucas Blue Explained to find out the meaning of Shutter Island. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below. I would love to discuss!
This is a spoiler-filled Shutter Island Explained video by Lucas Blue.
Let me know your thoughts about Shutter Island or any of your favorite psychological horror films in the comments below. I love hearing the opinions!
Outro Song: Let Go
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Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio - Mark Ruffalo - Ben Kingsley - Michelle Williams
Hope this offers some new insights! What were your theories and ideas about Shutter Island? I would love to discuss!
Man, I'm not even going to talk about the movie, I just really want to say thank you for all the content you make. I've seen many movie breakdown channels and I haven't yet found something like yours. You do really have an unique and acute way of articulate and present your argumentation and yet leave a space for the viewer to formulate their own. So, for all of that, once again, I thank you and I hope more people find your channel because They're sure missing out on it.
When you consider the storm and how teddy is told it’s just part of his psychosis it’s pretty clear the doctors are attempting to drive him insane.
As the daughter of a mother with a severe mental illness (my mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia and medicated herself with alcohol before she died) I can confirm what you said about those of us who have or have had family members with severe mental illness will feel more empathy toward the people in these institutions. I think experiencing it up close with a family member is the only thing that will give a person true empathy and belief that they are real people with real emotions. They are not one-sided monsters but humans who are multi-faceted with conflicting emotions and ideas, just like regular people. They experience the world differently but they still experience the world. And in a way, don't we all experience the world differently? Growing up with her has certainly molded my views of the world and how those people are treated by those who don't truly understand them. Thank you for your interpretation.
I really enjoyed your thoughts about empathy in this film, I never considered those ideas being tied to the theme(s) of this story. Awesome work as always, thanks man!
this is one of my favorite movies of all time
Very interesting interpretation, but i have to disagree with you in regards to teddy not actually being a ww2 vet and us marshall. His skills in firearms is very high where else would he get all that training. Martine Scorsesce makes it abundently clear that teddy knows how to fight and is clearly proficient with firearms where else would he get this training. Everything else in the breakdown is spot on. Great video
You talk about the conversation with Chuck in the mausoleum as not making sense for either side, but I think it does make sense for the "Teddy is really Teddy" side. Chuck is trying really hard to gain Teddy's confidence, and you can tell that he is succeeding throughout the film. When Chuck disappears, Teddy is looking all over for him, risking his life climbing down the dangerous cliff and braving to swim the evil water to reach the lighthouse. George Noyce and Cave-lady Rachel warn Teddy about him, but he doesn't listen and thinks that he has really found a true friend. The speech that Chuck gives at the mausoleum ("What if when you were looking into them, they were looking into you?") really makes Teddy feel like Chuck is on his side and that they are a team trying to solve the mystery of this island together. Now as for the "Teddy is Andrew" side, I agree that it doesn't help the cause at all to feed his delusions when they insist that all they're trying to do is bring him back to reality. I wish that Teddy would've brought that up at the lighthouse, and I doubt that Sheehan would've had a half-decent answer.
Absolutely loving all of these!
Excellent, Lucas!
This movie makes you choose between the human level of mental illness and the clinical realities of the treatment. The first time I watched I was rooting for Leo and against the hospital...after watching this I feel a little foolish 😅
yet another banger
YOU'RE CORRECT, ALTHOUGH I DO BELIEVE HE WAS IN WWII.
I didn't even know the ending was a question, at least not the roleplay part. He was in WWll though and a US Marshall as well. He was sent there because he was dangerous both by being crazy and having those skills. I've also always had issues about the ending because while I yeah he's sane and doesn't want to live with the burden of what he's done by not proving the treatment a success he's condemning a lot more people to lobotomies and I know the character isn't really thinking of that but I always get this Beatrice Horseman flashback when he says it.
love this so much. all of what ive learned in dialectical behavioral therapy is that yes, AND. the idea that two seemingly opposing ideas can both be true. and there are third and fourth ideas too. i think the ambiguity allows for there to literally be two stories being told at once. one where there is a huge conspiracy in the mental health care system that's exploiting our most vulnerable AND one where people are desperately trying to help someone and move away from that exploitation. because in life, both happen. just like people who commit horrible acts also loved someone, experienced joy and pain, we're once innocent children who were most likely horrifically abused. all people contain good and bad. everyone. it is so hard to see this in others, but most of all ourselves. because acknowledging the bad seems to negate the good. YES, AND... bad doesn't negate good. are some people never coming back from their wrongdoings? but we should still try, just in case we're wrong. we should keep searching for ways to better ourselves and humanity. i loved this movie, it really encapsulated what gaslighting feels like, bc in both scenarios he was gaslighted to some extent. so much to say about this film. thanks for your take.
Great analysis thank you. I think the last line really summarises a general movie theme about the truth being harder to accept than the lie. In many films, like this, the character chooses to be happy in the fantasy as opposed to unhappy in reality. I think a film which one can make MANY direct parallels with (in theme, characters and structure) is MOMENTO, it's almost uncanny.
I like the breakdown but you’re 100 percent wrong about his background not being Military or a marshal.
This is my favorite review on this film as it considers the possibility of both the role-play and brainwashing takes on it. Every other one that I've seen doesn't even want to acknowledge the fact that an alternate take exists. I also agree that the scene with George Noyce is crucial to the understanding of the film, and they obviously kept the dialogue ambiguous in that scene so that it could go either way. On the brainwashing-side, the "You can't search for Laeddis and discover the truth at the same time" line could mean that Laeddis doesn't exist (being an anagram that Dr. Cawley created along with Rachel Solando), so there's no truth to find there. The role-play side insists that he IS Laeddis (and that Noyce is well-aware of that), but if that's the case, then why didn't he just come out and say it? Also, everything in that conversation aligns perfectly with what Teddy told Chuck about Noyce. He even brings up Dedham, and Noyce doesn't say "What are you talking about?", so that makes me think that Teddy really did meet and become friends with him at this other prison. Well-done on this video Lucas. I'm impressed!
This is perfect
I just saw this movie for the first time. I was convinced that the ending was just what you described but went looking here to see if anyone else felt as I did. Thanks for the analysis.