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Shutter Island Analysis
Shutter Island is an American neo-noir psychical anfractuous film proceeds during the 1940’s to the late 1950’s. This film presents Leonardo DiCaprio role playing as a disoriented man trying to maintain his reality into inception. We were led to believe that Leonardo DiCaprio was a U.S. marshal under the name Teddy Daniels. Mr. Daniel along with his new partner Chuck Alue were sent to Shutter Island to investigate a disaperance of Rachel and patient 67. Throughout the film we will encounter a dubious thought on Mr. Daniels and his true persona. This film starts off by Teddy Daniels and Chuck on ferryboat to shutter island, an island containing a federal mental institution for insanity. As they arrived to the facility they meet with deputy …show more content…
He tells Teddy and Chuck that a patient named Rachel escaped the night before their Yepes 2 arrival. Dr. Cawley goes on saying that her purpose for being in Shutter Island is for drowning her three children, and pretending it had never happened. Mr. Daniels and Chuck tour throughout the rest of the institution, while government officials are on the search for the missing patient. There was a lighthouse on the other side of the island gated and with armed guards which got Teddy’s attention and got him to question his surroundings. Furthermore, Teddy suggests that his purpose is to interview staff and patients. Therefore he starts to question about the night Rachel escaped. Then he later appears in Rachel cell and finds a loose handwritten notebook paper saying “The law of four, and who is patient 67?” Nether the less the staff and officials were less than useful at the interview. One of the nurses tells Mr. Daniels that Rachel’s Psychtrist Dr.sheehan left for vacation while she’s still is missing. This angered Teddy and he starts to feel suspicious about this …show more content…
This made Chuck feel anxious so he tried to manipulate Teddy so he won’t have a clue on what’s actually happening. Teddy is curious to figure out what’s going on in the lighthouse, he asks Chuck to tag along but Teddy notice that chuck is being suspicious when he tries to talk to him to go with to the lighthouse. Teddy climbs down the cliff to search for chuck and he encounter with a woman name Rachel a doctor in the facility who found out too much and they concocted a story that he killed her kids. Teddy realized that Dr. Crawley planted an imposter Rachel to fool Teddy that he was on a mission to find the missing Rachel. She says there is a secret government program to test on new drugs on patients to torture

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