Advanced analysis: film title

Shutter Island 

Teddy Daniels is a U.S. marshal and is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient in Ashecliffe Hospital. Teddy starts to think that he was brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors which range from illegal to sinsiter treatments. In the end it is revealed that Teddy is actually a delusional mental patient in the hospital. He murdered his crazy wife Dolores after she drowned their three children. He had been a pation for two years at the hospital, the doctors had tried an expirement on him by allowing him to live the fanatsy he believes. The last sentense he say is "which would be worse to live as a monster or die a good man". In my opinion Teddy at the end really did undertsand what happened and would prefer to be lobotomized and forget everything then live the rest of his life feeling guilty.

Shutter Island conforms to the codes and conventions of the Thriller genre. Throughout the film the use of quick shots makes the feeling of suspense and tension more noticeable and creates disorientation of time and space. Alslo, it conforms to the codes and conventions with the use of non-diegetic sound which creates tension. This tension in the music is generally in Thriller films and it adds to the suspense as it gradually gets faster and louder until the climax where there is a loud sound and then the sudden stop which makes you think that something is going to happen. An example is when Teddy goes to Ward C because there was an outbreak from the patients, the music starts to get faster and louder, then a patient jumps out of no where. Another point is that all the scenes are filmed in a dark manner. The use of low key lighting creates a sense of fear which gets the audience more involved and also sets the mood of how the film is.

In this film there are so many twists and mis-directions. An example of mis-direction is at first we think that Teddy is only at  Ashecliff to solve the mystery of Rachel Solando, but then as the story evolves we think that this place is evil and that the doctors are doing experiments on the patients. An example of the twists are when Teddy really realises that he is a patient and the doctors were just allowing him to live his fantasy as part of their experiment. This is a major twist that i did not expect and I don't think many other viewers would either.