Twisting Story Line

Rating: 8/10 (22 April 2012)

The movie Shutter Island is about Teddy Daniels, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, an investigator who is put on an mission to find a patient who has disappeared from the island. Teddy had volunteered to take this mission because he was determined to find and expose his theory that Ashecliffe had been using these patients as lab rats to learn how to control them with drugs and surgery. Teddy begins to have hallucinations of his wife Dolores, played by Michelle Williams, who had been killed in a apartment fire by Andrew Laeddis who was also supposed to be on the island at the hospital as well. When a storm came and shut down all the power on the island the jail cells were all opened and Teddy and his partner Chuck, played by Mark Ruffalo, went into Ward C which is were he thought Laeddis was at. While in there he met George in there which is someone who he had known that originally told him about the secret things going on in that hospital. George told him that Chuck was not really his partner and that all of the doctors were playing a game with him; then went on to tell him that in order to see where they perform the surgeries that he had to go to the lighthouse. Teddy eventually does get to the lighthouse only to find Dr. Cawley, played by Ben Kingsley, who then went on to tell Teddy that he had been at the hospital for two years and that his real name was Andrew Laeddis. He then explained to Teddy that Chuck was not his partner, he was his doctor as well, he just stated with Teddy to make sure that he was safe; and that they allowed him to play the role of an investigator hoping that it would help him to come to the realization that he had actually killed his own wife for killing their children.
Although the movie was not scary in any way to gave off a look as if it were, the lighting was very dark in a lot of shots and with some of the camera angles there it looked as if something was about to happen. All of the characters did a great job with the acting, there was a good twist at the end of the movie that would definitely leave you confused. You may even have to watch it more than once to get a full understanding of what was actually going on in the movie from beginning to end.