SHUTTER ISLAND - Full Length Reaction!
Added 2025-10-01 16:00:13 +0000 UTCHappy October everyone! Here's the full length reaction to Shutter Island. This movie blew me away! I think it's in my top two Scorsese films now (it might be tied with The Departed). I don't want to spoil anything, but everyone was incredible in their roles! Enjoy!
Comments
Such a clever, well-structured film. Many films that try to use the end to Change Everything don't quite hold together, but this one is unnerving and logical the whole way through. The thing that I love the most is that we -- the audience -- don't need to trust any of the doctors in order to believe that they're telling the truth at the end about who Andrew Laeddis is. Because we've followed "Teddy" the whole way and, like Dr. Cawley said, there's nothing HERE. We went through the patient wards, and the staff housing, and the isolated lighthouse, and we don't find any underground torture cellars or hidden surgical theaters or anything else. There simply isn't any secret operation going on. So if the whole conspiracy is non-existent, why would they be secretly drugging "Teddy" in the first place? It was the perfect way to prevent the audience from thinking "They're so good at mind control that they brainwashed Teddy into thinking he was Laeddis!" Because we have already followed the whole investigation the whole way through.
JBK405
2025-10-05 19:17:58 +0000 UTCI believe that the main character's last line to his partner "Chuck" at the end, which was "Which would be worse? To live as a monster or to die as a hero?", was a silent admission that he had broken through his delusions but couldn't live with himself. He willingly chose to go through the procedure by giving them what they wanted to hear (him regressing into his delusions once again) in order for them to authorize the lobotomy. It's very sad.
Archive23
2025-10-03 18:10:45 +0000 UTC
