Shutter Island Film Analysis

The vision Christopher Nolan had for The Prestige (2006) was to add to the outbreak of street magician film, whilst playing a large dramatic subplot equal in grandeur to the magical performances within the film. In the final sequence of the film, I will analyse how the cinematography and sound resolves the plot so that it summarises the themes present in the film, whilst also invoking a response from the audience. Nolan predominantly uses close up shots, non-diegetic sound (music) and dialogue collaboratively to convey the dramatic, personal subplot of the characters and their relationships, whilst appealing to the audience bringing forth an emotional response from the audience. The heavy, slow, dramatic atmosphere of the ending sequence uses various techniques to summarise and uncover the underlying mysteries of the events throughout the film and consolidate themes introduced during the exposition.

Analytical Thesis: Get Out is a psychological thriller that analyzes the racial issues in modern America through the use of visual rhetoric: such as film noir, symbolism and metaphors.

The film Shutter Island depicts the story of a World War 2 veteran Andrew Laeddis and his experience with mental illness, specifically portraying the memory phenomena of repressed and recovered memories also known as dissociative amnesia and dissociative fugue (Kikuchi et.al. 2010). The illness is triggered by a psychologically traumatic event, which included discovering his wife had murdered his three children, and in response, he killing his wife (Kikuchi et.al. 2010). Additionally, the portrayal exhibits many of the criteria for a diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (Friedman et.al. 1994). The DSM-V now classifies dissociative symptoms as an additional subcategory of PTSD diagnosis, however, the film concentrates

Sixteen candles was written by John Hughes, this movie was his first 1980s teen movies. Hughes was inspired by Molly Ringwald, to write the screenplay. As, he was finishing up writing the screenplay for Mr. Mom and National Lampoon’s Vacation, Hughes' agents at ICM gave him a stack of photos of young actors. When he was going through the stack he noticed Molly Ringwald, then began write the screenplay for the Sixteen Candles. John Hughes finished the script over a single Fourth of July weekend. Hughes also was so impressed with Anthony Michael Hall's performance in National Lampoon's Vacation that he created the role of Ted “The Geek” just for him. Michael Schoeffling got the role of Jake Ryan, as the leading male because of his good

Though there are often set social constructs in high school formed through a need to conform, the actions of the students are in reality the reason the psychological hierarchy and norms persist. Students rely on stereotyping and prejudices in order to take away power from some and empower others. Once the groups have been formed through the appraisal of superficial appearance, athletic ability, and social charisma they are relatively set in stone and have set a protocol for social interactions. The prejudices originate from three distinct perspectives, motivational, economic and cognitive. Motivational perspective states that humans form prejudices once they are motivated to view their own ingroup more favorably than outgroups. In the movie Heathers, the popular

The movie “Gone with the Wind” is about a rich southern girl named Scarlett O’Hara and her life hardships set during the time-period of the Civil War. In the story, Scarlett is forced to watch helplessly as her family’s wealth and lives fade as the confederacy loses the Civil War. Even though, the movie is mainly centered on the dilemmas of Scarlett’s love life, there are many historical accuracies that immerse the viewer in the southern mindset as well as the timeframe. The portrayal of class structures and the confederate attitudes before the Civil War are both accurate and engaging details that the movie successfully implements. In the film, these examples are displayed mainly through the dialogue and setting.

The film, the Untouchables, was directed by Brian De Palma. It was set in the prohibition era, which was right at the start of the 1920’s. Prohibition can be described as a law that made selling and manufacturing alcohol illegal. By putting this law into effect, it actually increased the amount of crime and violence throughout cities in the US. This was ultimately due to the rise in organized crime, also known as gangs. In the movie specifically, it was centered around the rise of the Mafia in Chicago. By looking at the production of the movie, we can see how during prohibition, the Mafia controls everything and the violence ultimately it leads to.

Groundhog Day is a movie about a meteorologist, Phil, who has to travel to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to cover the annual Groundhog Day celebration. Before traveling to the festival, Phil predicts that the blizzard scheduled to hit the area was no longer a threat. However, the blizzard does hit the area and, worst than the blizzard, is Phil realization that he is stuck in a time loop where he relieves the same day, February 2, over and over (Gilbert, 2013). This paper will focus on analyzing four reoccurring scenes that take place in a restaurant.

Film noirs describe pessimistic films associated with black and white visual styles, crime fiction, and dark themes. Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 film noir directed by Billy Wilder. Sunset Boulevard presents many themes that are common with the genre film noir, but also introduces some differences from the typical movie in that genre.

Being isolated leads people to be mentally unstable and come up with outrageous conclusions making them believe they need to create another reality. In Shutter Island and Black Swan isolation heightened the main characters need for a better life. Andrew Laeddis needed his relationship with his wife so much he chose to ignore her attempts of suicide “After she tried to kill herself the first time, Dolores told me she... she had an insect living inside her brain. She could feel it clicking across her skull, just... pulling the wires, just for fun. She told me that. She told me that but I didn't listen. I loved her so much.” this was said when Andrew finally accepted reality of the trauma he has experienced. In Black Swan however Nina’s mother refused to let go therefore isolating Nina from experiencing important aspects of life, Nina’s mother Erica stop her from growing up by not allowing her to choose what her room looks like, Nina was in her mid-twenties and her room was pink with several stuffed toys and dolls, in the centre of the room a small single sized bed with pink covers, looks as though a six year old lived there. Nina’s room reflected Nina’s mind set, she was physically isolated because her mind wasn’t the mind of a dancer in her twenties she was treated like she was twelve and she knew it, “It's called privacy, I'm not 12 anymore!” Nina

Paradise Now is a 2-hour film released in 2005, it depicts a perspective alternative in a highly controversial topic of suicide bombers or also known as a ‘martyr’. The movie takes place in Palestine during the Israeli occupation and illustrates the mundane life and frustration felt by the main characters Said and Khaled due to the oppression experienced during the conflict. A key feature that is also portrayed is the reasoning, and almost justification of an attack on that level. However, the perpatrators can be seen showing feelings of hesitance and even inquisitiveness in relation to the afterlife that they are promised and whether violent resistance is the last option. This paper, will discuss how “Paradise Now” provoked my views and

Understanding mental illness for the average person can be challenge or even unattainable. Unknown aspects from each individual illness grasps differing urges that are unrelated to the majority of people. The film industry, however, is used as a productive machine of creating empathetic relationships between its audience and the people being portray in the film. A combination of the film industry and the implementation of characters struggling with mental illness delivers a provoking message to an audience of people willing to learn the situations of all people. The movie A Beautiful Mind manages to fulfill the dramatic effects of a film and the realities within an individual suffering through mental illness.

In “The Departed”, which takes place in South Boston, State Police are tasked with bringing an end to Irish American organized crime. One of the stars of the movie is the great actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who plays undercover cop Billy Costigan. The cast is packed with high demand actors; one of them being Irish mob boss, Jack Nicholson, playing Frank Costello. Costigans counterpart is Colin Sullivan, played by Matt Damon. Both men just-graduated from Massachusetts State Police Academy; Sullivan is on the side of the mob, and joined the police force to be an informer for the mob boss. There is a key interplay between each man, and the people they are trying to deceive. The stakes are high, as each operative becomes entrenched in their double life,

Comparing Dennis Lehane 's "Shutter Island" and Martin Scorcese 's adaptation is like comparing a one punch knockout to a 10 round fight. Lehane 's 10 round fights keeps throwing these punches and kicks which gives you details and time to think about what is happening, but Scorcese quickly knocks you out, which is a complete surprise. Lehane gave the characters and the plot too much detail while failing to pose the right question at the end. Just like a ten round fight, it fails to have that strong punch and leave a lasting impact; both of which are important in a psychological thriller.

The word 'trauma' is defined, by Merriam-Webster, as a deeply distressing or disturbing experience. It can leave a wound not only physically, but mentally on a person. Trauma on a person can be a long term painful experience. After a traumatic experience, a person may re-experience the trauma mentally and physically. These re-experiences are medically called triggers according to the mental health centre in Rockville. These triggers on the person can be extremely painful. The brain can learn to avoid these re-experiences by forgetting what the initial experience was. This can lead to consequences such as, depression and amnesia, where the brain can block the reason for the persons' trauma which can lead to the consequence of death. These traumatic experiences happen within all four movies where the characters' mind has trained them to forget or to see what their trauma is from. Shutter Island is a prime example of post traumatic disorder. Teddy Daniels, leading up to his post-traumatic disorder, experienced numerous triggers. The triggers are from Teddy serving in war, avoiding the fact his wife was depressed, with her killing their three children resulting in Teddy killing his wife. This leads him to cut out the real world and creating his own world/limbo that allows him to hide from what happened to him. From his painful war experiences in the death of wife and children, Teddy’s mind trained itself to trick itself into what really happened, to a fake story that he would be