The movie “Shutter Island” opens in 1954 with U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels and his newly appointed partner, Chuck on a ferry headed to Boston’s Ashecliffe Hospital, an insane asylum on an island to investigate the escape of Rachel Solando, who drowned her three children. After they are denied access to personnel files and the interviews seem coached, Teddy becomes suspicious as to what is really happening at the hospital. As the investigation continues Teddy experiences flashbacks, nightmares, and migraines. Then as a hurricane hits the island, Rachel is found and they are told that they can go back to Boston as soon as the storm clears. Teddy uses this time to explore ward C, which is only for the most dangerous patients and then tries to go
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I am combining both these topics because the two can often co-occur (Tull). Teddy exhibits hallucinations and paranoia, which are symptoms of psychosis. He also experienced memory loss, nightmares, flashbacks, and migraines which are typical for PTSD. I think that the movie represented these two conditions fairly well. I think that they made the audience feel what Teddy was feeling, to a degree, and that allowed the audience to imagine what it would be to have these two conditions and thus I think that the way they directed the movie was very well. The music score was well timed as it enhanced the sense of suspense and the camera work also helped the audience feel the same confusion that the character …show more content…
The only issue I had was with how they portrayed role play, which is usually a carefully controlled therapeutic method, was portrayed as a not-at-all careful free-for-all where they allowed the insane patient to freely wander, despite the chance that he could hurt himself or others. My experience while viewing this film was greatly impacted by my taking AP Psychology. I spent about four hours watching this movie because I was constantly stopping the movie to take notes on the various psychological themes that I found and would not have noticed had I not have taken AP
I am combining both these topics because the two can often co-occur (Tull). Teddy exhibits hallucinations and paranoia, which are symptoms of psychosis. He also experienced memory loss, nightmares, flashbacks, and migraines which are typical for PTSD. I think that the movie represented these two conditions fairly well. I think that they made the audience feel what Teddy was feeling, to a degree, and that allowed the audience to imagine what it would be to have these two conditions and thus I think that the way they directed the movie was very well. The music score was well timed as it enhanced the sense of suspense and the camera work also helped the audience feel the same confusion that the character …show more content…
The only issue I had was with how they portrayed role play, which is usually a carefully controlled therapeutic method, was portrayed as a not-at-all careful free-for-all where they allowed the insane patient to freely wander, despite the chance that he could hurt himself or others. My experience while viewing this film was greatly impacted by my taking AP Psychology. I spent about four hours watching this movie because I was constantly stopping the movie to take notes on the various psychological themes that I found and would not have noticed had I not have taken AP