Toucheer's Blog

You will never know the story until the very end.
For 66 highly-dangerous psychos, a shutter island could be a good choice. However, a mysterious missing of a patient who had killed her children broke the peace of the island. How could she disappear in this cage-like place? Federal sheriff Teddy Daniels and his partner Chuck was asked to investigate this case. Actually Teddy was secretly looking for the murderer of his wife and children, and his wife told him in the dream that the killer named Lattis was on the island too. He began to search, but what he found made things more complicated, Was Lattis the number 67 patient on the island? Was this place a secret base of government? His terrible dream and headache nearly drove him crazy.
There was a detail. Every time Teddy had a headache, the doctor would give him a pill. At that time I strongly believed that the doctor was a bad guy, his pill had lead Teddy to the edge of collapse, and this island was really an experiment base for medicine test. I was even convinced in the end, his brave would be washed and he would believe that he was the killer of his wife!
I guessed it right in some way, since Teddy WAS the killer. The director of the island finally told him he was the number 67 on the island, and Chuck, who was with him all the time, was his attending physician.
Teddy was a soldier in World War II. Death, murder, blood. After all the things he had been through, he was ill. He killed his beloved wife and all his children and couldn’t accept the reality, that’s why he was sent to the island.
Now everything’s clear.
But the second day, Teddy seemed to lose himself again. Hopelessly, Chuck decided to execute the final step. Teddy went away ,and there came his sentence— Which would be worse? To live as a monster, or to die as a good man.
I’ve read a lot of comments about this film. There’re 2 versions of comprehension. The first one is that Teddy was a real sheriff and his brain was washed, I think people holding this opinion didn’t understand this film well. There’re lots of hints in the film—the match, the dream, the other patients words. They all matches.
When the man faced the truth of himself which he could not accept, he chose to die bravely rather than live without memories. It’s not weak, it’s just his method to end this. I would do the same if I were him. Sometimes the destiny could be such a nightmare that we couldn’t bear. Be brave, you can get through this—such words are just nonsense. Despair and sadness are beyond words, and when all your beloved has gone, the only thing you wanna do is just to die in peace. I will never want to feel like this.