Experience in mass brainwashing.

Rating: 1/10 (5 March 2010)

Just another lame Hollywood attempt of depicting US/West as good guys as a screen for nefarious business. The twisted theatrics in Shutter deflects attention to the endgame: having us denied reality and to even be wishful for our ignorant state. It left me, a very average theater goer, very saddened and disturbed for being taken in on a deceitful and pitiful ride. The use of really talented actors such as DiCaprio and Kingsley is indicative and on a par with the recipe. Mind you, neither are at their best here as though they had dissonance for being used in a blatant fashion.
Just as Quentin Tarantino said that he made BASTERDS because the Holocaust genre was very much in demand by Hollywood producers and financiers, Martin Scorsese just wasn't going to be left out by the manna train and surest ticket to Oscars. So comes Shutter Island that deals with the gory concentration camp lore but more importantly, expands on the treatments of patients/detainees experienced in both; the first (Shutter) is where a very humane experience is conducted in order to break through a deep case of altered and second personality (DiCaprio); the second was used as labor camps for a war machine or in Hollywood and Holocaust meme, as extermination camps.
Shutter is another Hollyweird attempt to indoctrinate and disinform the general public. Operation Paperclip and Projects MK-Ultra and Monarch anyone? Paperclip oversaw the whitewash of war criminal records of between 3000 and 5000 German scientists (Von Sydow character who enjoys Mahler to make him more engaging) in a clandestine operation to bring them to the US as war loots. There were rocket scientists - Wernher Von Braun - but also and maybe even more so doctors who used humans as guinea pigs, Mengele ways. Paperclip was folded into Dulles CIA in the fifties.
Operation Monarch: covert human mind control project that was instituted in the fifties and early sixties. The roots go back directly to Nazi Germany and Josef Mengele. The goal is to reach and subdue the innermost soul - roughly in age 6 and a half and eight years of age, in every human being, there is a time where the neurones of the brain are not quite fully formed and it was found that if extreme trauma was induced, even to the point of death and torture on a young child, then you can cause these neurones to basically dissociate. They become such that other personalities and even spiritual entities can be implemented in that individual.
It's a perfect cover because the core personality, the true individual is in charge but they have multiple individual (altered personalities) hiding behind the curtain so to speak. A monarch goes from one personality to another that can be triggered externally by an handler without being conscious of it. Sirhan Sirhan, RFK killer was most probably a monarch child.
Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio) is throughout the movie in an altered state as a way to escape a horrendous past that was not of his own doing if one excepts the disfigurement to his supposed ex-partner. All the things alluded in Shutter, rod through an eye, brain butchering are used to demonize inhuman treatments but there are just parts of a whole range of treatments used the world over in mind control. The innocuous role playing which is the base of the whole film only serves to hide what really goes on on Shutter Island or in the US/West as a rule, hence disingenuous.
To accept that only humane treatment goes on is to be a willing denier and co-participant in mass programming. In so doing, we're left with a very simple black and white dichotomy that tricks us into accepting the bad cards we are dealt with in a game of playing with our own brain. The very last sentence Dicaprio says is revealing, something like: Is it better to live as a bad guy or to die as a good guy? And off he goes to the butcher table in a pseudo heroic stance so as "to kill" his guilt feelings; be dumb and guilt free, that's Hollywood message. Sorry but I refuse to be lobotomized. Better to live with your eyes wide open and see for what Shutter Island is no matter how bad.