Do you think this is talking about the plot of the movie "Shutter Island"? No, this is the 2001 horror adventure game Silent Hill 2 made by Konami on PS2. Before the release of "Shutter Island", Konami developed a total of seven "Silent Hill" games, and "Silent Hill: Homecoming", which inherited the theme of "Silent Hill 2", also has similar settings. The game centers on Alex, who appears to be a retired soldier but is actually a mental patient. Alex, who suffers from PTSD, is struggling to find his lost memory between reality and fantasy. He accidentally drowned his younger brother, but because of his irritable behavior in the hospital, he has a surly personality. After the electric shock failed, the doctor decided to perform lobotomy, and the game started the day before the operation. The game is the most controversial in the series due to its extensive use of flashbacks and misleading narratives. Players can interpret the game plot from their own perspective, and because the two mainstream cognitions are split into two completely different factions, this attitude of "what you see is not true, what you see is not necessarily false" is exactly what "Shutter Island" "The ending will be controversial. "Silent Hill: Shattered Memories" released at the end of 2009 has nothing in common with "Shutter Island" except for the protagonist who received psychotherapy, but at the end, the protagonist also ignored the strange warnings and everyone's obstacles. , desperately came to the lighthouse, and learned the fact that the whole story was completely reversed.
Combining the above three works "Silent Hill" together, you can deduce the complete plot and perfect interpretation of "Shutter Island" - this is of course a coincidence, Dennis Lehan's original was published in 2003, it is impossible to travel to 2010 to watch the gameplay. Generally speaking, the fun of watching suspenseful works, the new nature is the brain hole, the social faction is more "vicious" than the author's mind, and the more clever story is to see if it can explain "the people you love can really Makes you feel unbearable for life" is the truth. Audiences who are familiar with Freud's psychoanalytic theory are likely to guess the ending in less than three minutes of the film, that is, when Teddy recalls his wife for the first time. For a suspenseful work, the foreshadowing in the film is not. Too little, but too much.
Despite Borges' repeated distaste for Freud, stories of this type that cross-examine the inner self and the outer world are hard not to be reminiscent of his assertion: "The vision of the universe is only an illusion, Or rather a sophistry". In the labyrinth created by Borges, everything is possible, but it can never come to an end. What awaits in front of everyone is only constant nothingness. But in order to make the audience "empathize", most of these works will say that even if you are indulged in the boundless illusion, there is always something you can't give up - so, in "Silent Hill 2", in "Shutter Island", in "Other World" Floating Life (Jacob's Ladder), and even in Ambrose Beers' famous short story "The Owl River Bridge," the ghost of the protagonist's wife lingers.
The concept of the "Silent Hill" series actually originated from Adrian Lane's "Life in Another World" in 1990. The protagonist Jacob was a soldier who participated in the Vietnam War. The film, like "Shutter Island", tells the story of the war and family factors that caused trama The tragedy, because nothing is more violent than war itself - Teddy suffered from severe post-war syndrome after witnessing the massacre in the concentration camp, which led to the subsequent family tragedy; Jacob suffered from war and hallucinogens. On the verge of death, he fell into an inextricable hallucination and suffered unbearable pain. Freud, who saw the irrational killing of human beings in the First World War, it was because of his post-war research on trauma that he put forward the theory of thanatos (death instinct) in his later years: "Once life begins, a tendency to return to the inorganic state follows, and this is where the death instinct comes from." Only when life ends in death can anxiety be completely eliminated and the satisfaction of the instinct be obtained. Otherwise, the death instinct will derive all violent behaviors inward and outward, making people restless for life. Therefore, "The Story of the Owl River Bridge" and "Floating Life in Another World" both end with the death of the protagonist. The official ending of "Silent Hill 2" is called "In Water", which also coincides with Borges' sentence "When you die, you will like water disappearing into water."
If the "Shutter Island" movie copied the novel, it would tell such a clever story. During the game of "Silent Hill 2", if you want to achieve the "In Water" ending, you must read the diary on the roof of the hospital, and the diary asks "Can it really be a such a sin to run instead of fight?" "Confinement" Teddy's choice in The Island novel is a derivation of this sentence, but Scorsese adds a line to the end: Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man? At that moment, Teddy chose not to escape, nor just to conquer himself. In this wrestling between life and death, crime and punishment, he finally chose morality - and the film became a masterpiece beyond fiction.
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