Shutter Island (2010) is a movie based on Dennis Lehane's 2003 novel of the same name and was adapted for the screen by Laeta Kalogridis. Kalogridis served as an executive producer for the Birds of Prey TV show and Bionic Woman. She also co-wrote the screenplay for Terminator Genisys (2015) and Alita: Battle Angel (2019) and is the executive producer of Altered Carbon (2018). Shutter Island was directed by Martin Scorsese and received five Saturn Awards nominations for Best Production Design, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, and Best Horror/Thriller Film. The movie got eleven awards from 2010 to 2011 and is placed at 148th place on IMDb's Top 250 Films list.
Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Deputy U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels with Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, the late Max von Sydow, and Michelle Williams. Principal photography took place in Massachusetts, with Taunton being the location for the World War II flashback scenes. The movie is set in 1954 and follows the U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels as he investigates the disappearance of a murderer who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane. The movie is an emotional rollercoaster that seeks to expose the dirty underbelly of the hospital and unravel the mind of Daniels himself. Water is a prominent motif throughout the movie. What does water symbolize and reveal in Shutter Island?
Throughout the film, Scorsese deploys water and water imagery to denote tragic events from Teddy's past. After the film's first scene, Teddy is trapped inside Ashecliffe, surrounded by water as a massive rainstorm has engulfed the island. Where fire represents delusion, water must represent truth and reality. The rainstorm was real and is symbolic of the truth bombarding Teddy in the wards. The night the storm started, Teddy dreamt of his wife, Dolores. Dolores came to him dripping wet in his dream, foreshadowing the film's twist.
As we establish that fire represents delusion, the audience must think back to Teddy's first dream. He created the scenario that his wife, Dolores, was murdered in their apartment by Andrew Laeddis, and Laeddis is somewhere on Ashcliffe posing as the 67th patient that the hospital is trying to hide. However, as mentioned earlier, Dolores is soaking wet and clutching her bleeding stomach before she burns in the same dream. It is revealed later that Andrew Laeddis did not light the fire in the apartment, but Dolores had. She survived the fire with her three children, and they all moved to a cabin on the lake. After coming home from work, Teddy notices the quiet. He then spots Dolores on the swing and the three children in the lake. Dead. As he takes out the dead bodies from the lake, Dolores pleads with him, begging to be killed. Teddy complies and shoots her in the stomach. She lays next to the three children, next to the lake.
Then, at the film's end, Teddy must swim to the lighthouse to discover the truth about Ashecliffe, the 67th patient, and the rule of four. Subconsciously, Teddy also understands that he is ready to accept the truth about himself by swimming to the lighthouse. It was all a ruse to help him understand his situation and give up the delusion. Although it contains red herrings, Shutter Island is ultimately about how Teddy Daniels is unable to cope with the memories of his former life as Andrew Laeddis. Teddy fragments and reassembles the pieces of his repressed memories, turning the name "Andrew Laeddis" into "Teddy Daniels" and "Dolores Chanal" into "Rachel Solando." Because Teddy's actual memories are too painful for him to live with, he decides to undergo a lobotomy procedure at the film's close. I don't have any words to describe how much I love this movie. However, I can't be the only one who thinks that the reveal in the lighthouse was anticlimactic. It had such a significant buildup, and then it just fell flat. There could've been a swell in the music, more water and fire allusions, or some cool CGI like they did in Teddy's dream. It was disappointing, but the movie is so beautiful that I'm willing to overlook it.
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