Awakening later, Andrew calmly recounts the truth, satisfying the doctors. Cawley notes that they had achieved this state nine months before, but Andrew quickly regressed. He warns this will be Andrew's last chance and if he lapses again he will be lobotomized. Some time later, Andrew relaxes on the hospital grounds with Sheehan. Appearing delusional, Andrew again refers to Sheehan as "Chuck" and says they must leave the island. Sheehan signals to Cawley, who orders that Andrew be lobotomized. Andrew then asks Sheehan if it would be worse "to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?" A stunned Sheehan calls Andrew "Teddy" but the latter does not respond and leaves peacefully with the orderlies.
Shutter Island was mainly filmed in Massachusetts, with Taunton being the location for the World War II flashback scenes.[8] Old industrial buildings in Taunton's Whittenton Mills Complex replicated the Dachau concentration camp.[9] The old Medfield State Hospital in Medfield, Massachusetts, was another key location. Cawley's office scenes were the second floor of the chapel during the late evening. Lights were shone through the windows to make it look like it was daytime. The crew painted the hospital's brick walls to look like plywood. This served the dual purpose of acting as scenery and blocking the set from view of a local road. The crew wanted to film at the old Worcester State Hospital, but demolition of surrounding buildings made it impossible. The stone lodge, next to Leach Pond, at Borderland State Park in Easton, Massachusetts, was used for the cabin scene.[10] The film used Peddocks Island as a setting for the story's island. East Point, in Nahant, Massachusetts, was the location for the lighthouse scenes.[11] The scenes where Teddy and Chuck are caught in the hurricane were filmed at the Wilson Mountain Reservation in Dedham, Massachusetts.[12] Filming ended on July 2, 2008.[13]
There's plenty of twisty fun to be had in Shutter Island, especially when the audience is invited to play along with Teddy to solve the mystery of Rachel's disappearance. The performances are all solid, especially DiCaprio and Ben Kingsley as the secretive psychiatrist John Cawley, but the real star of the film is the environment. Between the isolated, rain-pummeled island and Ashecliffe's many dark prison cells and long, silent corridors, the film is practically dripping with atmosphere. Scorsese's choice of low lighting invites deep shadows that contribute to the picture as well as the claustrophobic feel and gloomy mood that permeates the film. The pace does tend to drag over its 2+ hour runtime, but it's a solid psychological thriller that makes it feel like time well spent.
At first, all appears to be going well with Andrew's progress...but it's not long before he begins to regress. He begins to talk about his need to leave the island, hinting that he is once again retreating further into his mind and the "Teddy" persona. And just as Cawley warned, this really was Andrew's last chance. A disappointed Cawley consults with Ashecliffe's warden, and Andrew is taken away by the facility's orderlies for lobotomization to permanently put an end to the vicious cycle of guilt and delusions that plague him.
In its own way it's a haunted house movie, or make that a haunted castle or fortress. Shutter Island, we're told, is a remote and craggy island off Boston, where a Civil War-era fort has been adapted as a prison for the criminally insane. We approach it by boat through lowering skies, and the feeling is something like the approach to King Kong's island: Looming in gloom from the sea, it fills the visitor with dread. To this island travel U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo).
It's 1954, and they are assigned to investigate the disappearance of a child murderer (Emily Mortimer). There seems to be no way to leave the island alive. The disappearance of one prisoner might not require the presence of two marshals unfamiliar with the situation, but we never ask that question. Not after the ominous walls of the prison arise. Not after the visitors are shown into the office of the prison medical director, Dr. Cawley, played by Ben Kingsley with that forbidding charm he has mastered.
As the DSM-IV further classifies Delusional Disorder via the content of the delusion, a psychologist might also note that Teddy suffers from a Mixed Type. His mind generates themes of grandiosity (I'm going to uncover a mass conspiracy!) and persecution (I'm going to be prevented from ever leaving this island!)
The first glimpse of the sheer-sided rock rising from the ocean is computer enhanced, but the rocky coastline itself is Peddocks Island, which indeed can be found in Boston Harbor, off the coast of Quincy, south of the city. Composed of four headlands, connected by sand or gravel bars called tombolos, Peddocks is one of the largest islands in the harbor. The landing pier is on the northeast coast, by the remaining buildings of Fort Andrews, which can be seen as the party comes ashore.
While in Nahant, the interior of a nearby public works building atop East Point was transformed into the bathroom of the ferry, where Teddy Daniels gets seriously seasick on the voyage to Shutter island.
Bond no. 9's specialty is creating fragrances based on the neighborhoods of New York. Throughout the years, they have also targeted some of the islands, which include Coney Island, Liberty Island, and Governors Island. However, there is one fragrance dating back to 2014, which immediately impressed consumers with its realistically aquatic personality. This fragrance is Shelter Island, and it makes its presence known through salty seaweed, spicy black pepper, zesty lemon, and grounding oud. This balance between dark and light is precisely what sparked the magic of this composition. The aquatic ways of the perfume were eventually calmed by a lingering oud and sandalwood combination. Shutter Island is our impression of this hit by Bond no. 9, and our one-to-one match will eliminate the need for anyone having to get the original again. Shutter Island is a relaxing getaway scent without the thriller elements of DiCaprio's box office hit. When you wish to transport yourself to a more meditative place, a few sprays of Shutter Island will always do the trick!
"As far as the island itself, it was very difficult to make a matte painting that didn't look like a matte painting. We shot a real island in Maine and then added our version and Marty kept saying, 'Don't make it look like Skull Island.' And where we shot a lot of the cliffs in Maine for the second unit and visual effects work we used to populate the island. It's really more the art of it than the technique and that goes for the whole movie.
"We shot at [the defunct] Medfield State Hospital and 'islandized' it to make it look like the same property and made the cliffs show up there and the lighthouse. And we had rocks that were built in Canada to shoot these various pieces. Again, Marty didn't want to do anything outrageous with helicopter camera moves. He'd rather do almost locked off pieces for an effect, not for anything else.
Recent film history is filled with movies that have twist endings or twist narratives -- movies in which a character you thought was male turns out to be female, or the hero turns out to be a ghost, or the hero's best friend turns out to be a figment of his imagination, etc. "Shutter Island" isn't one of those movies. Minutes after U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) arrive on the island that houses the titular mental hospital, you know something is amiss -- that the mystery these men are investigating isn't the real mystery, that what we're seeing is some sort of projection on Teddy's part, although we don't yet know of precisely what. Which is another way of saying that although "Shutter Island" is a deeply subjective film, it plays fair with the audience, never leading you anywhere that it didn't at least hint that it would go.
Although the writing is not particularly stellar, it certainly holds its own and much care is placed in the details of the twist and the payoff is wonderful. Subtle descriptions hidden in the shadows come brilliantly to light as the islands secrets slowly unravel. However, the real strength of this script lies in the journey. Screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis keeps the audience engaged throughout with haunting moments, clever reveals and interesting back stories.
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