Thinking About Violence

Wendell 2022-04-20 09:01:05

Leonardo's baby face... let's

not talk about him, let's get down to business.

After reading it twice, it is almost certain to tell a story about the treatment of neuropathy. The second time, I found that many details hinted that his partner was his primary doctor early on, including the female patient who was flattering in front of him, and her eyes occasionally glanced from the right.

However, this is not the key to proving that the protagonist is a patient, because no matter what you say, that partner is a doctor. The key is that, from the beginning of the film, his "partner" has meticulously cared for him, completely inducing and healing him. If it is another hypothesis, as long as the person is tricked into the island, directly poisoned, and sprayed with medicine, they can open the scoop. Do you need to help him make up stories so carefully? So there is only one conclusion, the story is made up by the patient himself, and the doctor is inducing him and treating him.

If it is just entangled in the story, I feel a little sorry for the director's intentions.

The protagonist is constantly reflecting on the issue of violence. The Germans killed people, so we killed the Germans. The arsonist he was looking for killed people. Intellectually, he didn't want to kill again, but emotionally, his dream wife kept persuading him to take revenge. His wife killed his child, so he killed his wife. From the conversation he had with the doctor as soon as he entered the island, that for these patients, go to his "sense of calm". To his final judgment on himself - living as a beast? Or die as a good man. The protagonist opposes violence, but is trapped in the cycle of violence and cannot get out.

Is violence really God-given to us? The dialogue between the protagonist and the deputy warden in the car is what the director wants us to think about.

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Shutter Island quotes

  • Teddy Daniels: They're experimenting on people here.

    Chuck Aule: I don't know, boss. How can you believe a crazy guy?

    Teddy Daniels: That's the beauty of it. Mental Patients make the perfect subjects, if they talk nobody listens to them!

  • Teddy Daniels: I am a federal Marshall. They can't stop me.

    Rachel 2: I was an esteemed psychiatrist from a respected family. Didn't matter.