Teddy is pathetic, or pitiful. Just like a puppet, the joys, sorrows and sorrows are interpreted by the people behind the scenes, and the really sad puppet itself does not admit that it is a puppet. Just like the human mind does not dare to face its own faults and low self-esteem. Which world do you live in, and a series of philosophical questions are constantly thrown up, whether what you see is real or intentional. This film leaves us room to think and imagine.
Regarding the different interpretations of the Shutter Island, I am more inclined to the dream theory. That is, Teddy received a treatment. During this treatment, he imagined himself as a law enforcement officer going to the confinement island to investigate a disappearance case. The real purpose of his visit to the island and the identity of the people around him are all A manifestation of his split personality. Someone in the film keeps reminding you who you are? This question, and the identity he identifies with himself is the identity created and recognized by the imaginary environment around him. Simply put, it was a game played with him by his therapists and researchers, aimed at grasping his recovery and observing further treatment. In the end, this film leaves all fans with a big question, is Teddy really mentally ill or all this was originally a conspiracy to perform a "soulless man" surgery. The back of the film walking towards the lighthouse at the end is unforgettable.
From the perspective of social significance, this is what attracts me most to this type of film. The stories framed by all this type of films are not groundless, and their appearance has profound social impact. The year 1952 mentioned at the beginning of the film is a special historical position. Teddy is a retired World War II soldier, which is his identity. After World War II, the veterans were affected by the war and suffered from mental depression, life, work, love, etc., and suffered from different degrees of trauma and obstacles caused by communication with others. They were not born for the war, but the war changed their human nature and made them a state machine, born for the war, and their hearts were fearful, repressed, and closed, like a "confinement island". With no connection to society, soldiers who fought for their country fell into a useless place in peacetime, and were destined to become a lonely island in the ocean of society. Turned into social research psychopaths who spend their lives only to be experimented.
It is mentioned in the film that Teddy's real purpose on the island is to expose the terrible experimental conspiracy on the island, from which we can see his individual spirit of resistance. And his assistant (that is, his doctor in charge) reminded him worriedly, "Did the government send you to the island to investigate and collect evidence of government-funded projects, and then to oppose the government?" In the end, Teddy's resistance became increasingly weak. As absurd as it seems, none of this is true. All the doctors and nurses on the island conducted a rehabilitation experiment on him, and the result turned him into a "soulless man".
Maybe he understood, maybe he was still alive in himself. In the world of design, we mourn at the same time. Isn't it the same with our own lives? A closed home of the mind can be defined as a "psychotic" at any time, it is not that we are mentally ill and are defined as mentally ill, but that "they" say we are neurotic, and we are neurotic. The individual's struggle is pale and powerless against the external world, but it is even more insignificant and lowly against one's own inner world. Just like the last sentence tells us how to look at the world.
Teddy Daniels: Which would be worse? To live as a monster, or to die as a good man." Teddy Daniels: Which would be worse? To live as a monster, or to die as a good man
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