Comments on: SHUTTER ISLAND Review [Warning, Spoilery Talk Follows the First Paragraph]

By: eiii...

eiii... — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:36:39 +0000

Di Caprio’s first persona is in fact the real one. When he was talking to Chuck or the Doctor at the last part of the film, he asked him if it was better to live a monster or die a hero. When Dicaprio stood up and walked down the stairs, the Doctor (Chuck) called him “Teddy”. After the scene when he introduced himself as his doctor, never in their conversation did he call him “Teddy”. Instead, he called him Andrew, the name they want to instill in his mind. Furthermore, the name “Teddy” is even the last word uttered in the movie. Therefore, Teddy is telling Chuck to do the heroic thing, take the risk and expose the misdeeds inside the asylum for he chose to die as a hero than live as a monster.

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By: jim

jim — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:48:53 +0000

Well to be honest I figured out Rachel was his lover very early, but the part that I liked the best about this movie is that this was not the main mystery; Scoresese led me on to believe that I had the problem solved and then he threw a twist and showed that yeah maybe I was right but that was not all there was to it…The final line by Dicaprio is genius and in the end it made the movie 100 times better for me anyway.

By: Peter Hall

Peter Hall — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:35:39 +0000

Michael, the hypothetical I was talking about was a reference to Teddy's conversation with Rachel when he's in the cave and what she tells him is going on on the island.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:41:17 +0000

“introduces a hypothetical that completely rejuvenates the film. It hits like a cold shower, jolting the viewer back into the intrigue of the Marshall’s undertaking.”

I’ve seen the movie, and have no idea what this refers to. I really didn’t like it, and thought it was an obvious, disappointing snoozefest from start to finish. But I’d really like to know what this hypothetical is.

Anyone?

By: fred

fred — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:31:21 +0000

Yes John, he chose the lobotomy as an alternative to living with feeling he was a monster. That was the reason for the throw away line. I think a lot of people missed that and felt he genuinly had fallen back into his delusion rather than the pretense he was creating.
I felt that the film did a pretty fair job of holding forth other possibilities as to what was going on. It hinted at him being dead and also of being a victim of brain experimentation that had left him a violent escaped killer. Kudos to the casting of Von Sydow and Kingsley, as well as the rest of the cast.

By: John

John — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:13:56 +0000

I could see it either way, but I think he did choose the lobotomy. Otherwise, why include the line at the end- “Is it better to live a monster or die a hero?”

To me, that was a clear implication that it was a rational process that he’d made, to hold onto his Teddy Daniels persona. If that wasn’t the case, I see no reason for that line to be in the movie.

By: Matt J.

Matt J. — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:34:27 +0000

He did’nt “choose” the lobotomy folks…he was never going to get better. Thats what was so sad about.