Shutter Island

Rating: 8/10 (28 February 2010)

My wife and I saw the movie and both feel Teddy was sane. From the beginning he takes the cigarettes from others (beginning with the ferry ride). He has no shakes in the beginning and develops them. Later the shakes are explained as withdrawal, yet he has only been gone for one day. The Warden states the doctor thinks he can out smart Teddy, and the Warden feels Ted can't be out smarted. The gun in Kingsley office has a Marshalls emblem holster. The light house is first a sewage treatment plant, then a terrible place, then nothing? Why would they allow the guard to be hurt for the sake of the delusion? Shoud it have been therapy, loaded or not he could have killed the guard with a rifle. And, so much care was given to detail in the film, the rifle is a Mauser K98? At least it looked like a Mauser K98 from the few angles, it could have been a Springfield 1903, but the curve toward the butt after the trigger guard was rather distinct. That just may have been a gaffe by the props dept, or it may be a clue as to how Martin felt about the story, that they were connected to Nazis. The movie was very enjoyable and right or not, we liked it.