If you compare the closed island to a country, the warden and doctors represent the ruler, the medical staff and the police represent the government and the army, and the mentally ill represent the common people. On the issue of psychiatric treatment (national governance), the surgical group (left-wing, radical) advocates "severe crackdown" (severe punishments and laws), while the psychological group (right-wing, moderate) advocates "brainwashing" (governing the country by virtue). It is a typical example of "foreign Confucianism and internal law" or "first Confucianism and then law".
Teddy's Shakespearean question at the end "Which is worse? Live as a monster or die like a good man?", which means "to live a life of obedience, or to be a People who sacrificed for their own ideals?" choice. You can think of Teddy's ideal of "eradicating all inhumanity" as a "psychopath's hallucination," but what ruler doesn't consider his opposition a "psychopath"? The era of the film (1954) was the Cold War period, and the term "socialist" also appeared in the film. In the eyes of American officials, "socialists", like mental illnesses and prisoners, are people who endanger society. The socialist ideal is nothing but an illusion. In order to eliminate them, the moderates first adopted the method of "brainwashing", indicating that we are still in the pursuit of "healing and saving people", but brainwashing is not everything. High-voltage wires, barbed wire, searchlights and submachine guns are also indispensable. If the mental brainwashing is not clean, I'm sorry. , I had to use physical methods to "brainwash" - removal of the anterior lobe of the brain (shooting, you're welcome).
The subjective perspective of the film allows viewers to always look at the Shutter Island from Teddy's point of view, so that in the eyes of the audience, the Shutter Island represents a huge conspiracy, "exuding the stench of the government", and the doctors are a group of "white devils", The treatment methods are those terrible "hypnosis" and "brainwashing", which cause a strong psychological horror effect. But at the end of the film, people still have to accept the fact that the handsome Leo is indeed mentally ill.
How to answer Teddy's question? What is a good person and what is a monster? How to die, how to live? Opinions vary. In my opinion, since Teddy is hallucinating himself as an upright enforcer, the "good guy" is a federal marshal who has been framed as mentally ill. If he wants to "die like a good guy", he should rush to the In front of the police, they grabbed their guns and fled the road and ended up dying together. Killing one was enough to kill two to earn one. "I was willing to be cut, and dared to pull the emperor off his horse." Like Tan Sitong, he stood up to his death, "using blood to warn the world, so that those who came after wiped away their tears and turned their grief into strength." And the monster, of course, is to have a brain operation, forget justice, lose his conscience, and be in a daze. When three are full, he will cry if he slaps him, and he will be called uncle if he gives lumps of sugar. National affairs are none of my business.
Teddy went to the choice of the lighthouse operating room, saying that he had already given his answer: "Let's be a submissive." End!
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