"Shutter Island" is a suspense film adapted from the novel of the same name and completed by the famous American director Martin Scorsese in 2010. Like many suspense films, the ending is chosen as a major reversal of the whole film, such as Hitchcock's Psycho. Both "Psycho" and "Shutter Island" are about split personalities, but "Psycho" allows the audience to experience it through an objective perspective, while "Shutter Island" shows us from the beginning to the end through the subjective perspective of the protagonist the inner world of a schizophrenic. Director Martin did not continue his best gangster theme this time, but chose such a psychological thriller. At the same time, he is very loyal to the original work. Except for the final scene at the end, other parts have almost not made too many deletions and changes to the plots in the original work.
The story background of "Shutter Island" was chosen in 1954. This is a very iconic era. In 1945, World War II, which lasted for 6 years, ended; in 1952, the United States began to try the hydrogen bomb test; since the 1950s, the two major factions of psychoanalysis in the world, "psychoanalysis" and "biology", launched There was a fierce struggle, and psychotropic drugs, and treatments such as lobotomies, began to appear. Before and after World War II, both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany continued to conduct various secret human experiments. The story of "Shutter Island" takes place in such a "dark and chaotic" social background.
"Shutter Island" mainly tells that the protagonist federal law enforcement officer Ted and his new partner Chuck go to a "Shutter Island" guarding severely mentally ill patients to investigate, tracking a man named Rachel who had drowned his three children. the escapee. Ted's real purpose in going to Shutter Island is to find Redis, the arsonist who once killed his wife, but during the investigation, he found that the people on this island are not so simple, they seem to be secretly making human bodies for patients Experiment, and the place is the lighthouse. Ted eventually makes his way to the lighthouse, only to find Dean Cowley waiting on the top floor and tell him the truth: he is Redis, and he deceives himself and divides him because he can't accept the fact that he killed his wife who drowned his child. Come out with different personalities and fantasize about the same story every stormy day. So the entire island was ordered by Dr. Cowley and Sean, the chief physician who played Chuck, to help "Redis" act the story, in order to prove how unreliable and unreal his fantasies were, and also Want to prove the important role of the "psychoanalytic" school. Ted did eventually come out of his fantasy, but he still couldn't accept the fact, so he finally chose to perform a "biological" "lobotomy".
The biggest success of "Shutter Island" lies in its setting of suspense. On the surface, it is talking about the hero's reasoning and solving cases, inquiring about the human experiments of people on the island, but in fact it really talks about a person with schizophrenia hallucinations How to escape from yourself, be unwilling to accept reality, and feel guilty about your sins. All the clues in the film are foreshadowing the actual truth, so there is no so-called conspiracy theory at all. However, the audience can easily be substituted into the surface of the film narrative during the movie (for the first time), and regard the island as a conspiracy. The subtext and sound effects that appear many times in the movie are also very easy to mislead the audience. . In the same way, the movie reflects the psychology of the protagonist "Redis" and his subjective feelings from beginning to end. He forced himself to see the Shutter Island as a spooky and conspiracy place, just as the audience saw the darkness in the picture. Boundless, like a stormy island. The whole film is creating an illusion, at the same time weaving and paving a hidden truth that can really explain everything reasonably, and promote the development of the plot through the contradiction between the truth and the subjective illusion. The film succeeds in doing this, but this is precisely what has been criticized by many people, because the focus of its creation is to "create an atmosphere of suspense", but the real plot (that is, the truth of everything) becomes secondary.
There are a lot of clues in "Shutter Island" that revolve around the truth. For example, at the beginning of the movie, Redis and Sean's boat is filled with handcuffs for escorting prisoners, indicating that this is a boat for escorting prisoners; Redis and Sean are in Sean's clumsy movements when he handed in his gun at the entrance of the hospital showed that Sean was not professional; when he entered the hospital, he saw a patient who was helped by chains on his feet, compared with the free patient he saw at the end, showing Redis' subjective fantasy. , also highlights the hospital's actual humanitarian care for patients, trust and care for patients, which is repeatedly mentioned in the film; Rachel's ward is in the male ward, and she walked barefoot into the stormy thorn forest It's also impossible, but Redis deliberately fantasizes that it has something to do with the unspeakable secrets of the mental hospital, which to a certain extent promotes the continuous development of the plot and sets up suspense; the guards are very The slack and boredom show that this is a lie; Redis asked Rachel during the investigation of the first young psychopath, and he replied, "Such a slut should be poisoned", Redis became dissatisfied and then continued The boy was uncomfortable with the strokes of paper, because he subconsciously knew that Rachel's image was his wife, and it also showed that Redis knew the boy very well; the woman was very uncomfortable after hearing the name "Redis" The panic shows that she understands that Redis himself is too addicted; Redis and Sean go to Dean Cowley and others for a meeting and overhear Dr. Cowley and executives arguing about whether to handcuff patients after a power outage The question of getting up shows that Dr. Cowley is full of sympathy for the patient; when the lightning comes, Dr. Sean's dizzy Redis' expression on medical leave is full of worry and concern; the "Redis" in Redis's dream looks like Fierce, perverted, and sitting in the "German" doctor's room, the same seat, all show Redis's deep abhorrence, remorse and escape for his crimes; The guards almost beat him to death after hitting him, showing the hidden violence in Redis, which is the same as Redis saying "you try" to the "biological" violent guard, and beating Xiao after learning the truth Exactly the same; Redis standing on the edge of the cliff and seeing the smoke on the ground blowing in the opposite direction of the wind, as well as Sean falling on the reef, and later seeing "Real Rachel" in the cave, all show his The hallucinations are deepening, but his desperate attempt to save Sean also reflects the justice and conscience in his heart; in the end, Redis walked to the lighthouse, but there was only a "waste wood" guard inside, and the lighthouse was empty. , which reflects the absurdity and nihilism of Redis' fantasy from the side.
When Redis was interrogating staff, people started laughing when a female nurse said "Rachel doesn't like the rain here and hates the food here". Cowley once told Reedis that "we treated her with medication, but the medication came and went, and her biggest handicap was her inability to accept what she was doing." They both knew and implied that Rachel was actually referring to Redis herself. Redis is constantly creating and enriching this character, intentionally and unintentionally. Like the arsonist "Redis", this character is the product of his inner self-deception and escape. As much as he fears the truth, Rachel and the arsonist are powerful enough to take over everything in him. And he also split up his wife, constantly going to sometimes stop him, sometimes guide him to find the truth, these are actually his inner struggles.
There are also a lot of metaphors and satire in the movie. Redis asked the woman in the hospital why she stayed so normal, and she replied: Because the outside world is too scary; when Redis was held down by the guards who were disguised as patients, the guards also mentioned that the hydrogen bomb The harm and fear caused by the world is unimaginable, which also reflects Redis' ignorance of new things in the outside world. But the world in the 1950s was changing too fast. People continued to carry out all kinds of cruel and inhuman scientific experiments, social unrest, war, and mental hospitals became the safest places. These words are all from mental illness. What is said in the mouth shows the madness of this world. In addition, the reference to "violence" in the film is also a recurring clue: German doctors and many others advocate the use of "biological" lobotomies, which symbolize violence, to "recover" patients, and advocate the abuse of patients. They believe that violence It is a gift from God to mankind, and Redis is one of them. Redis has been violent from the beginning of the war to the mental hospital, but he conceals himself and thinks of himself as a gentle law enforcement officer. while mental patients like women and boys look normal, but when they face their husbands and sex, they inevitably expose the most genuine violence of human nature. Isn't that the case with us so-called normal people?
The scene at the beginning of the movie is the vast sea, showing a person's inner confusion, at a loss in the boundless boundless expanse, and also reflects the erratic, ups and downs of a person's heart; Blizzard and rain are symbols of death in the film , the stacked corpses in the concentration camp were all in the snow, and all three of Redis’ children drowned in the water, so the water was an ominous thing to him; the white light of the lightning meant the beginning of the dream, which was unreal ; the constant turning of the wife into ashes and the shards scattered in the sky reflect the cruelty of the truth; the books and symphonies in the Nazi officer's room show the mess in the heart, the struggle and the sense of powerlessness; Redis in the dream Walking in the concentration camp, there is fog behind you, which reflects the confusion of the truth; the mice under the cave show the chaos in people's hearts, while the caves imply the escape of people's hearts; the lighthouse means the truth of the truth, from the initial dark clouds to the end The sunny day reflects the truth and finally sees the sun; the most classic soundtracks at the beginning and end respectively show the beginning and end of a person's journey.
The aerial shot of the suicide of the Nazi officer in the film is similar to the aerial shot of the little girl drowning in the water. The officers brutally slaughtered the Jews, in contrast to the fact that Redis' wife drowned their children, but he couldn't do anything to save the people he cared about. He saw those who fell to the ground as he saw the hearts of hopeless souls.
Redis' conversations by the fire in the cave are all over the shoulder and back, showing that Rachel and his own words are from his own inner thoughts, and the fire between the two shows his constant transformation and self-transformation. Divide, and the unreality of fantasy.
Redis was an American soldier who had participated in World War II. Because he did not have time to save the slaughtered Jews when he went to Dachau Concentration Camp, he always felt guilty and slaughtered the enemy who had already surrendered, so he suffered after the war. Under the "post-war traumatic shock", colloquially, is post-war depression. He became a federal law enforcement officer, became violent and alcoholic; his wife developed bipolar disorder as a result, and set fire to the old apartment. The two later moved to a hut in the woods, but she broke down because of her husband's indifference and violence, and finally drowned her three children. Redis shot and killed his wife because of the pain and also wanting to free his wife. But he always felt remorse afterwards and couldn't accept the fact, which made him afraid of water and wine. He began to deceive himself and made up another story, and gradually, he slowly split into different personalities and fell deeply into it. Therefore, he was sent to a "shutter island" for the treatment of mental illness. There, he was still immersed in the stories he weaved and couldn't extricate himself. He has extreme violent tendencies, coupled with excellent physical fitness, is the most dangerous person on the island. George Noyce, who had been with him in the intensive C ward two weeks before the story, was beaten up by him for calling him Redis. Redis just wanted to keep escaping reality, fantasizing himself as a detective, a righteous man, and the doctor also knew his fantasy from constant observation. However, Redis was still reluctant to accept the suggestion from the doctors again and again, but continued to fantasize, and created a new fantasy of mysterious experimental conspiracies on a new island. "Resistance Psychology". He was finally successfully treated by the well-meaning Cowley and Sean, but he did not want to live in the cruelty and grief of reality, so he pretended that he did not recover, and eventually went to destruction.
Shutter Island is actually the closure and struggle of a person's inner world. When your beautiful fantasies conflict with cruel reality, when the person you love dies because of you, when you are bound by fate and reality, when you want to save others and save yourself from the sins you have committed But there is nothing you can do, what will you do?
This is a harrowing story. When Redis walked towards self-destruction step by step, he understood: I, like other patients in the mental hospital, loved and laughed, but the cruel reality made me so helpless that I had to close my eyes and indulge in fantasy Inextricable.
To live as a monster, or to die as a righteous man? Leonard in "Memento" defines the purpose of his own existence as "to create a mystery that he cannot solve", to live forever in self-deception, in a memory that is only based on fragmented, and full of falsehoods, In the world of true and false fantasy, it is meaningful to believe in one's own identity and one's existence.
Some things, the more I want to forget it, the more I try to erase it from my memory, the more I try to escape it, the more deeply rooted this memory becomes, pulling me into an endless abyss where there is only endless darkness, and deep Bone marrow pain.
"It's so easy to love someone you remember, but what's really hard is that you still love that person when they're in front of you."
But so what, at least in my memory and fantasies, I also loved and laughed.
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