The same thing, two completely different stories.

Story 1:

Marshal Teddy Daniels’ wife and children died in a fire caused by Andrew Laeddis. He loved his wife and his children deeply. . Through the investigation of Andrew Laeddis, he learned about a mental hospital called Ashecliff, on shutter island. As the investigation deepens, Teddy begins to suspect that there are ulterior secrets on the island.

Teddy’s intuition is right. Shutter Island is a secret mind control laboratory. They use patients with severe mental problems to try to perform surgery on their brains so that they have no feeling and no consciousness. memory, and exploit them militarily.

The laboratory needs a new patient, and through investigation they discover that Teddy Daniels has trauma in his heart. This is Teddy's mental weakness. They created a fake patient Rachel's disappearance and asked Teddy to come to the mental hospital in the name of investigation. He is also accompanied by Dr. Sheehan, a psychologist pretending to be Teddy's investigative assistant, with the purpose of observing his behavior, listening to his description, understanding him, and then destroying him mentally with Dr. John Cawley, the island's chief psychoanalyst. .

After arriving on the island, the people on the island made Teddy take pills falsely called aspirin and eat their cigarettes, which physiologically aggravated Teddy's hallucination problem.

Dr Cawley said Rachel was a mental patient. He drowned his three children but always felt that they were still alive. After careful investigation, Teddy's disappearance was impossible, and he began to realize that Rachel's disappearance might be a conspiracy. When he interrogated a more "sober" patient, the female patient deliberately asked Dr. Sheehan, the accomplice psychologist pretending to be Teddy's assistant, to pour water. Then I took this opportunity and immediately wrote to him "Run". ...Slowly he began to doubt his assistant.

In the cell, he accidentally met George Noyce, a man he once knew. He told Teddy that horrific brain experiments were being conducted in the lighthouse, and told him to get rid of his hallucinations, get rid of trauma, and not believe in himself. Assistant, otherwise he would never get out of this island~

After coming out of the cell, Teddy immediately wanted to go to the lighthouse mentioned by George, and Dr. Sheehan followed him on the grounds of being an assistant. The road to the lighthouse was very dangerous, so Dr. Sheehan left Teddy and ran back to tell everyone that Teddy was about to discover their conspiracy. Teddy did not go to the lighthouse, but met the real Rachel in a hidden cave. She used to be a doctor here, and the psychologists also wanted to turn her into a mental patient and then perform surgery on her. Rachel told Teddy all the truth. Teddy realized their conspiracy and made himself Mental Patient No. 67, but he still believed in his assistant.

Back at the mental hospital, Teddy's assistant disappeared. Teddy suspected that the people on the island took him to the lighthouse for brain surgery. Teddy is going to the rescue. When Teddy arrived at the lighthouse, Dr Cawley was already waiting for him there. The story reaches its climax.

Dr. Sheehan showed up and Dr. Cawley used various forged documents and rational analysis to convince Teddy that he was a mental patient and had been here for two years. He kept repeating that he was here to investigate Rachel. hallucination. Teddy was led to believe that he had killed his wife.

Due to the effect of the drug, Rachel's story combined with Dr. Cawley's fabrication, Teddy had a hallucination. His wife killed three children, and then he killed his beloved wife.

In order to avoid being immediately lobotomized, Teddy temporarily admitted that he was a murderer and a mental patient. But in the end he couldn't let himself live like a monster, so he decided to die...

The movie ends with a lighthouse symbolizing brain surgery...

Story 2:

Teddy is actually Patient No. 66. He used to be a Marshal. Yes, he loves his wife very much. But one day on Saturday, when he found that his depressed wife had drowned her child, he felt great pain in his heart and shot his wife to death.

But as Dr. Naehring, a psychologist like Freud, said, Teddy had a strong defense mechanism in his heart (in the context of Freudian terminology). So Marshal went crazy, Was sent to shutter island.

Marshal loved his wife so much that he carried the tie she gave him every day. He often dreamed of his wife and hugged her. He couldn't accept in his heart that he was the one who killed his beloved wife, so he imagined a murderer like Andrew Laeddis and wanted to pursue him for revenge, turning himself from a murderer into a hero who tracked down the murderer.

[Corresponding to reaction formation in the Freudian context]

Teddy also transformed the memory of his wife’s murder of their three children into a phantom patient, Rachel. In fact, it was not Rachel doesn't want to admit that she killed her child, but Teddy doesn't want to admit that his wife drowned his child.

[Corresponding to projection in the context of Freud]

Teddy also often dreams about the original Nazi concentration camp, dreaming about murder, dreaming about pain, dreaming about Death~

Teddy uses the pursuit and investigation of Rachel and Laeddis to ease the strong contradiction between his love for his wife, the morality of not killing, and his own murder of his wife. Love, denial, remembrance, and pain are constantly entangled and escalating in a mind that has lost its mind. It constitutes the most touching, compassionate and delicate aspect of the movie.

During this period, Teddy also had various hallucinations to rationalize his pursuit and investigation.

Dr. Sheehan has been Teddy's psychiatrist for two years, hoping to slowly help Teddy come out of his hallucinations through role play.

When Teddy's pursuit and investigation endanger the safety of the people on the island, at the lighthouse, Dr. Sheehan and Dr. Cawley try to tell him the truth about his murder of his wife. Teddy was convinced and recalled the painful scene of killing his wife.

Soon after, Teddy returned to his hallucinations. The psychoanalyst on the island was afraid that his defense mechanism would cause harm to others, so he took him to lobotomize...

The first story is a thriller full of conspiracy. Teddy, as a strong and persistent detective, explores step by step. The climax of the story occurs in the questioning of a profound question: When all rational analysis and evidence lead to the conclusion that you are a madman, do you trust your own memory or the evidence of "reality"? What is memory? Should you rely on your own memory when judging evidence?

Story 2 is a story full of compassion and tenderness. The deep love for his wife and the cruel fact of killing his wife made Teddy struggle painfully between hallucination and reality.

The beauty of the second story lies in the use of carefully designed dreams to deeply analyze and express Teddy's heart, and to interpret Freud's theories on defense mechanism, dream, hallucination, and trauma.

The most beautiful thing about the Shutter Island movie is that one movie can be two completely different conflict stories based on different "beliefs". The film's balanced presentation of both stories supports each story with so many facts that no one story is truly the "truth."

Or the two stories are originally "truths", and it is through the subjective intervention of the audience that the two truths absolutely become one story.

And all this, two-way, absolute opposition can only happen on an isolated island, and any outsider can expose the "truth". It can be said that using Shutter Island as the title of the movie is most appropriate.

I have always felt that how to tell a story is the soul of a movie, and shutter island’s two-way narrative method of guiding the story is like a miracle in the history of film. By creating the conflict and conflict between the “two stories” Contradictions re-open up the beauty of new movies

More than that, Mahler's "Quartet for Strings and Piano in A minor" appears many times in the movie to describe Freudian "memories" Or "hallucination". Mahler and Freud were both Austrians in the early 20th century. The music not only matches the narrative content in content (Mahler's seven sisters died in childhood, and he never lost his beloved four-year-old daughter Maria). (recovered from the pain), and the time and place are consistent. The originality of the film not only has an understanding of the story and psychology, but also has a deep understanding of classical music, which is really amazing.

There are also several scenes in the movie that are very classic:

Teddy dreamed that his wife was at home and forgot to go out the window, "the wife died in the fire" (Story 1 perspective) , he hugged his wife tightly, ashes fell from the sky, and his wife was slowly burning to ashes like a piece of paper. The message of reluctance, love, tenderness, and burning to death is expressed in a beautiful way.

Teddy imagined the scene in Dr. Naehring's office, where Rachel was covered in blood and killed three children. The smoke that fills Teddy suddenly solidifies, creating not only a contrast of stillness, but also a contrast of spatial depth.

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And Leonardo DiCaprio’s outstanding performance…

And the interior decoration of Dr. Naehring’s office full of nineteenth-century Viennese style…

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The more you think about this movie, the more interesting it becomes.

The last thing I want to ask is, yes, as shakespeare said

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts

Even if a person has only one role in a period of his life, is he only playing out a story?

The same thing, two completely different stories.