The investigation continues as Teddy and his partner Chuck search for Rachael Solando, the mental patient who has disappeared on the island. The storm outside is progressively becoming worse which means they will need to move fast if they want to find the patient in time. While Teddy is questioning Dr. Cawley about the treatments Rachael was receiving, he responds by asking, “Do you know the state of the mental health field these days, gentlemen?... War. The old school believes in surgical intervention. Psychosurgery. Procedures like the transorbital lobotomy.” He goes on to explain how the new school practices psychopharmachology, which uses drugs to calm the patients. However, Dr. Cawley has a “radical idea that if you treat a patient with …show more content…
Teddy and his new partner Chuck are going to Shutter Island, a mental institution for the criminally insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient named Rachael Solando who was sent there after drowning her three kids. Upon arrival, the staff gives them a brief tour of the island. When Teddy asks for access to the staff and patient files Dr. Cawley denies, saying that he will need to consult with the board of directors. Throughout the film, Teddy has several flashbacks about his wife and kids and from his time serving in World War II. Later that night, he meets again with the doctors who confirm that he will not have access to the staff files. Now infuriated, Teddy suspects that the staff is hiding something from him and threatens to end the investigation in the morning. However, there is a storm that night, so the ferry doesn’t come to the island. Teddy eventually admits to Chuck why he took the case. He reveals that his wife was killed in a house fire by a man named Andrew Laeddis who was later sent to Shutter Island for treatment. However, there was no record of him ever being at the facility. Teddy mentions another man who used to be a patient on the island named George Noyce, who said they were performing some crazy experiments. Teddy believes that the island is host to these mind …show more content…
Cawley if he has seen his partner. When Dr. Cawley replies saying that he doesn’t have a partner Teddy believes that they are trying to trick him into thinking that he is insane. He later rushes to the lighthouse at an attempt to save Chuck only to find Dr. Cawley. The doctor explains to him that he has been a patient here for two years and this has all been an elaborate role playing exercise at one last attempt to save him. Chuck walks into the room and admits he also works on the island. Teddy denies it at first, but after being shown a picture of his kids, he realizes who he really is and why he is here. His real name is Andrew Laeddis, and he murdered his wife after she drown their three kids. After this happened, Andrew blamed himself and eventually snapped, creating an alternate reality in his mind in which he was the good guy again. Andrew saw signs that his wife was mentally ill, but never did anything about it. Dr. Cawley explains to him that they made a breakthrough a couple of months ago, only for his mind to reset, again taking on the alternate reality. Andrew (Teddy) was a danger to the staff and other patients so if he did not permanently accept reality, right now, he would be lobotomized. In the closing scene of the film Andrew is sitting on the stairs with Dr. Sheehan while the other doctors observe from a distance. Andrew then refers to him as Chuck which means his mind would have reset again and he would be lobotomized. Sheehan then
After losing Wilson one night, Chuck regrets the loss and begins to go ahead with Wilson’s original idea
He loses faith in himself some time after arriving on the island, so he decides to commit suicide by hanging himself over a cliff. Luckily, the tree branch that supported the noose snapped which would mean him falling to his death instead. Chuck then realizes that it's a sign that he needs to live. Before the departure of the island, Chuck doesn't have much faith that he will survive the trip back to civilization since he writes, "Tell Kelly that Chuck Noland loves her" on a rock in case somebody comes across it later on. If he was certain that he'd succeed in the journey back, he would not be doing so since he could tell her himself in person. Shortly after departing, he encounters a whale swimming close by. It is the first living thing that's seen throughout the movie after the crash, other than Chuck himself and his food sources. There are no sound of birds, either. This gives him more faith that he will arrive back to civilization where people are alive. Wilson is the only companion Chuck has on the entire island, and he frequently holds conversations as well as arguments with Wilson in order to stay sane. It becomes his closest and only companion; Chuck stores so many of his thoughts and emotions in the volleyball that it begins to appear alive. He puts all of his faith in the volleyball. This can be shown when he nearly loses Wilson on
They keep moving until they reached Simon and Rae at an abandoned warehouse, and enter, despite being followed now by Dr. Davidoff. Chloe has severely damaged her arm, because a shard of glass while climbing out of a broken window to escape not only that, and they are being shot at by tranquilizer guns, and Derek convinces her to go ahead with Rae while he and Simon distract them. After going back for the dart, Rae convinces Chloe to go to Aunt Lauren with proof. They do so, taking a taxi, and explain about Lyle House, and Aunt Lauren takes Chloe to a hospital, where she is revealed to have betrayed her by drugging her. Chloe is put in a cell just before drifting off, and after waking, contacts Liz's ghost to help her
The volleyball, Wilson, becomes Chuck’s only companion on the island. Wilson is Chuck’s need for companionship personified. Wilson is a part of Chuck as Wilson’s face is made of his blood and is the physical manifestation of Chuck’s mental state. “I know you.” Chuck repeats to Wilson and this signifies that Chuck is aware that Wilson is a part of him while demonstrating Chuck trying to reassure himself of who he is. When Wilson is lost at sea, Chuck is devastated at losing his ‘friend’ and one of the only things kept him sane on the island. Chuck’s palpable anguish evokes sympathy and grief within the responder.
He regrets letting Carlson shoot his dog and wished that he had done it himself. Just like the dog, Lennie is also shot through the back of the head. After Lennie kills Curley’s wife, he follows George’s orders and runs back to the Salinas River; knowing that trouble would arise. George ends up shooting Lennie through he back of the head, knowing that if he left Lennie alive the other men would
With his conscious mind playing front line at this point he interviews patients at the mental hospital about this new found riddle. A turning point in his battles was his encounter with a man by the name of George Nyce, an inmate who knew him personally before his role play. After the storm ruined the island, Teddy went searching through Ward C for Andrew Laeddis, and
After the shooting Teddy’s entire family was depressed and unable to focus on anything important. Teddy wants to find the gang that killed his sister and get revenge, by killing them or torturing them. One night Teddy goes out in seek of revenge of the killers of his sister. He ends up finding them and watches them for a while, because he figures out the pattern of the police patrolling the neighborhood. He has to
Chuck ends up developing this type of character development when he is reunited with Kelly. He expects everything to go back to normal after he will be with Kelly. His relationship with Kelly changes after he finds out that she had moved on with her life, has children and is married. Chuck understands that, just like time, you must move forward. On the island Chuck has a volleyball companion named Wilson. He becomes emotionally attached to this object to keep himself less alone on the island. After Chuck loses Wilson in the ocean, Chuck feels
When this happened no one, not even his best friend from kindergarten gave him any sympathy or companionship. Also at the house when he realized that the people were on a loop and started to drive off the island, the actors made him think he was insane rather than acknowledging that he is actually catching on to them. His “wife” even betrayed him, which forced him to physically threaten her when she advertised the product placement. She even admitted that the show was going too far because they didn't take that much action into the threat of her life. They were more concerned that their cover wasn't blown so they could continue with the
Lennie immediately grabbed a gun he kept hidden in his room and approached the room where he heard his wife. He opened the room door and to his surprise he found a man in a ski mask raping his wife, suffocating her to death. Lennie reacted fast and shot a bullet through the intruders head, however, he was too late to rescue his wife. As Lennie approached her he received a hard hit from another intruder on the back of his head causing him to lose consciousness. Throughout the entire film Lennie is on a search to find the other man responsible for raping and murdering his wife, but he has trouble doing so because of his injury that makes him constantly loose his memory.
Shutter Island portrays multiple mental illnesses in the main character as well as in supporting characters. One might call it an abnormal psychology “goldmine.” It takes place at a water-bound psychiatric facility, Shutter Island, housing the criminally insane. The plot is about a man who refers to himself as Teddy. He believes he and his partner are detectives, on the island, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. He is also in search of a patient named Andrew Laeddis, who Teddy believes murdered his wife. The detective becomes paranoid that the facility is treating the patients unfairly and performing experimental lobotomies. The delusion goes on for several months, Teddy never realizing he is actually a patient, until he is brought back to reality at the climax of the movie. His delusion ends. He realizes he’s a patient for a very short amount of time before he goes back to believing he’s a detective. The delusion starts all over again. Throughout most of the film, viewers see his delusion as a reality, until the twist at the end when it is revealed that he is actually a patient.
Additionally, this fluctuation of faith can also be seen through Chuck Noland in Cast Away. When Chuck Noland reaches his lowest point of hopelessness, he attempts to commit suicide. As time progresses, his faith in seeing Kelly again slowly diminish because Noland is aware that “she had to let [him] go” (Zemeckis, Cast Away). He realizes that she probably thinks that he is already dead and thus in a sense, Noland knows that he has already lost her. Like Pi, Noland also loses his motivation of surviving, as he believes Kelly has moved on with her life and begins to believe that he is going die alone on this island.
For this reason, they find it necessary to fabricate stories to explain happenings in the house. As the night progresses, they consistently dig themselves into a deeper hole of lies. The situation eventually gets terrible when Ken tries to hide the gun so Charley can't find it to shoot himself again. On his way to putting in the closet, Ken trips over Charley's slippers and discharges the gun
Shutter Island, directed by Martin Scorsese, contains an intense and intriguing plot line especially when viewed from a psychoanalytic perspective. Edward “Teddy” Daniels, a US Marshal and WWII veteran travels to an isolated island to investigate a case of a patient who has run away from Ashecliffe Hospital. Alongside Teddy is his partner Chuck; they both investigate the disappearance of Rachel Solando—a criminally insane patient who was admitted after drowning her three children. Before fleeing the mental institution,
Plot twists are creatively applied to Shutter Island. Presented at the start of the film, when Teddy Daniels arrives on Shutter Island, Teddy Daniels is a U.S Marshall. This conveys that he is solving the case of a missing patient who had escaped. Most importantly, he is searching for the killer of his wife, Andrew Laeddis, who is supposed to be a patient on the island. To start the paranoia, Chuck Aule says “What if while you were looking into them, they were looking into you?” Chuck identifies the paranoia to unconsciously throw the audience off guard and Teddy Daniels then seeks to discover the disturbing truths of the institution. As the truth is clarified, the plot of the film seems to be apparent. As the core plot of Shutter Island is to find out “Who is 67?” said by Chuck Aule, it is not until the end that everything is clarified. Teddy Daniels is in fact the missing “patient 67” who is Andrew Laeddis. He then is disturbed with the truth that