Shutter Island case study

The film chosen for this case study is "Shutter Island". Shutter Island, released in February 2010, is a psychological thriller directed by Martin Scorsese. The film is based on the 2003 novel, also titled Shutter Island, which was written by Dennis Lehane. The theories I will be relating to this subject analysis will come from Kelly’s, Gestalt’s, and Freud’s theories. The story is set in Boston in 1954. The main character is Teddy Daniels will be the subject in this case study. Edward Daniels nicknamed Teddy is a U.S Marshal and war veteran, who we are led to believe was left heartbroken when the love of his life, his wife Dolores was killed in a fire in their apartment started by a man named Andrew Laeddis. Teddy is haunted by the memories of his wife as well as graphic World War 2 visions that inhabit his dreams on a regular basis. Little can be known about Teddy’s life prior to his wife’s death other than that he is a reformed alcoholic who refuses to touch a drink. When he is first introduced to us it is the year 1954 and Teddy and his partner are investigating the unexplained disappearance of a patient in Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane on Shutter Island located in Boston. Teddy has extreme trust issues and later in the movie becomes paranoid that everyone is trying to cover-up the truth about what is really happening on the island. This is Teddy’s identity from his own viewpoint, which is later revealed to all be a delusion in his own mind. Teddy Daniels whose real name is Andrew Laeddis is actually a patient at the asylum, admitted after murdering his wife two years ago; his supposed partner all along was his doctor, who was attempting to cure him of his insanity. The theories I will be relating to this subject analysis will come from Kelly’s, Gestalt’s, and Freud’s theories. From a psychoanalytic Perspective little information can be analyzed of Teddy based on his childhood, but there are other elements of Sigmund Freud’s