Shutter Island (film)

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Movie
German title shutter Island
Original title shutter Island
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Country of production United States
original language English , German
Publishing year 2010
length 138 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 16
Rod
Director Martin Scorsese
script Laeta Kalogridis
production Brad Fischer ,
Mike Medavoy ,
Arnold Messer ,
Martin Scorsese
music Robbie Robertson
camera Robert Richardson
cut Thelma Schoonmaker
occupation

Shutter Island is an American psychological thriller directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio . The film is based on the 2003 novel of the same name by the American writer Dennis Lehane .

action

The US Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels investigated in 1954 with his new colleague Chuck Aule the disappearance of the patient Rachel Solando from the Ashecliffe Hospital for mentally disturbed criminals, which is on the (fictional) Shutter Island off the coast of Massachusetts .

As a hurricane looms, making it impossible to return to the mainland at first, Daniels suspects that secret experiments are being carried out on patients on the island. He is plagued by nightmares and hallucinations, most of which revolve around his late wife and memories of his time as a US soldier in World War II , in which he was involved in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp . In addition, his physical complaints, especially headaches, nausea and drowsiness, worsen. Plagued by these complaints, and his investigation suggesting a conspiracy, he becomes increasingly paranoid . The research also suggests that there is one other patient in addition to the 66 registered patients who is being treated incognito there.

Daniels reveals to Aule that he has reported himself for the case for personal reasons: he had learned from his former student colleague George Noyce that the USA, based on human experiments by the Nazis , are now carrying out devastating experiments on the unsuspecting, and wants the machinations discover. He already has a lead that leads to Shutter Island. That same George Noyce ended up being a patient and psychologically manipulated because of political and communist activities. The organization that finances the clinic also gives indications of a political background. On the other hand, Andrew Laeddis, the caretaker of Daniel's former home, is said to be a patient in the clinic. Daniels accuses Laeddis of having started a fire in his apartment, in which his wife died. He suspects that Laeddis is the 67th patient and wants to catch the murderer.

The escaped patient reappears and the job is actually done. However, Daniels has already gathered many other indications of a conspiracy and is investigating first with Aule, then on his own, because after a conversation with the patient George Noyce, who is actually in the clinic, he also distrusts Aule.

Eventually he finds another woman, apparently the real Rachel Solando, who is hiding in a cave. She tells him that she used to be a doctor at the clinic and that she was demoted to patient after asking questions about the real nature of the clinic. There they use the imprisoned patients for human experiments and work on using brainwashing , psychotropic drugs and finally neurosurgery to turn them into nervous, unrestrained killing beings with no memory, who can be used as agents in the Cold War , among other things . She calls these patients “human monsters”. Daniels has already been poisoned by psychotropic drugs secretly mixed into drinks and free cigarettes by the clinic's doctors, and his hallucinations are typical symptoms.

Since Daniels is of the opinion that the mystery of Shutter Island has now been solved, he looks for his missing colleague to save him from remaining on the island as a test subject. He knocks down a security guard and uses his rifle to break into the lighthouse, which he suspects is where the human experiments are being carried out.

In the top room of the mostly empty lighthouse, Daniels meets the chief doctor. The missing Aule also appears, but who turns out to be the psychiatrist Dr. Sheehan introduces. Both announce to him that he is actually the insane and extremely dangerous 67th patient Andrew Laeddis, a former marshal suffering from dissociative identity disorder. He has been on Shutter Island for two years, and Dr. Sheehan has been his treating psychiatrist since then. For two days he was subjected to a radical, innovative role-play in order to avoid a transorbital lobotomy , which he threatened because of his recent attacks on staff and other patients.

In a role-play, he was supposed to act out a false identity based on delusions, with which he protects himself from an unbearable trauma : He shot his manic-depressive wife Dolores after she drowned their three children in the lake in front of their own house. Daniels is convinced that he could have prevented the murder of his children if he had taken timely action against the illness of his wife Dolores. In order to suppress the unbearable truth, he invented a fire: Andrew Laeddis, who he no longer wants to be himself, set the fire and his wife was killed in the process. Rachel Solando is an anagram of his wife's name, just as Edward Daniels, his name as Marshal, is an anagram of his real name.

During his hallucinations, he saw his dead daughter Rachel, among other things, as a victim of the Dachau concentration camp, in the liberation of which he had actually participated as a soldier, and he only thinks, according to the doctors, that he shot guards there afterwards had arisen. This war crime is historically documented as the Dachau massacre , but according to the chief physician it is unlikely that Daniels / Laeddis was involved in the massacre. Instead, he postponed the unbearable memory of the shooting of his wife to Dachau and other places, just like his late arrival in the face of the corpses of his children. Similarly, he twisted and shifted the memory of George Noyce, whom he actually brutally attacked after calling him "Laeddis".

The encounter with the woman in the cave, which Daniels / Laeddis regarded as evidence of inhumane machinations, was a hallucination; and his physical complaints are not due to the supply, but rather to the withdrawal of psychotropic drugs that he no longer received during the role play.

Forced to listen, Daniels / Laeddis fiercely opposes these revelations. After he has apparently shot the chief doctor with a toy gun and his view of things is apparently inevitably shown to be contradictory, he collapses unconscious.

In his hospital room he recognizes the representations of the doctors as true and means to allow his memory of a repressed reality again. As a result, according to their statement, he has now taken a decisive step towards his healing and thus discharge. However, as he learns, he had come to this point earlier in the course of his therapy, before he always returned to his delusions and suppressed any memory of his therapy. In the end, he is warned urgently against another relapse, because in the event of such a relapse a lobotomy is inevitable.

The next day he speaks to his doctor Dr. Sheehan is back as a police partner, as if he had repressed what was happening in the lighthouse. Sheehan signals this to the waiting director and the other doctors with a slight shake of his head. At this moment the group starts moving and Laeddis / Daniels recognizes surgical instruments that a nurse is keeping half hidden under a sheet. With the words “What would be worse: To live like a monster, or to die a good man?” He gets up and voluntarily walks away with the nurses and doctors. In response to the address "Teddy" by Dr. Sheehan no longer reacts to Laeddis. In the final scene you can see a shot of the lighthouse, which indicates the next and most radical step for Laeddis / Daniels.

Production and publication

Production of the film began in March 2008 under the direction of Martin Scorsese . Filming was completed on July 2nd. The film was supposed to be in theaters on October 2, 2009, but Paramount Pictures postponed the start to mid-February 2010. The film celebrated its world premiere at the Berlinale 2010 on February 13, 2010. The film was released across Germany on February 25, 2010 the cinemas.

Filming locations included Acadia National Park , Boston Harbor and Taunton , Massachusetts .

Others

Original of the lighthouse from the movie poster

The lighthouse of Warnemünde can be seen on the official film poster .

The film grossed $ 294.8 million worldwide on a budget of approximately $ 80 million. This makes the film a financial success. Together, both of DiCaprio's 2010 films - Shutter Island and Inception - grossed nearly $ 1.2 billion. For this, DiCaprio received $ 15 million per film as well as a share of the revenue and thus a total of $ 77 million, which made him the world's best paid actor of 2010.

criticism

“Just like in Siegfried Kracauer's theory From Caligari to Hitler , according to which the film Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari foresaw the Nazi regime in 1920, the demons of film history also lead a double life as demons of historical reality in Scorsese. All too cruel to be true or as cruel as the truth that is sacrificed for the sake of fiction. As if fiction would heal through historical reality, so that the injury only opens twice again with Scorsese. [...] Scorsese [has] succeeded with Shutter Island, the secret masterpiece among his intermediate works. A film primarily (but not exclusively) for cineastes and a boon in view of the many plot twists from works from recent film history. "

- Martin Thomson : cut

“Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island is not a masterpiece. Often the individual parts of the thriller are better than the whole, and the outstanding camera work by Robert Richardson and the committed appearance of Leonardo DiCaprio do not change that. Otherwise there is a little too much of everything: the cops are a little too hardened, the prison fronts a little too dark and the shadows that the hardship casts a tad too long. But the brilliance with which Scorsese stages everything is admirable despite all objections and makes 'Shutter Island' a film that is absolutely worth seeing. "

- Carsten Baumgardt : film starts

“With billowing clouds of fog and other classic horror film stylistic devices, Scorsese creates an amazing artificiality that, in retrospect - and that is the great highlight of Shutter Island - becomes completely plausible. Scorsese's regular actor Leonardo DiCaprio also makes a decisive contribution to this. His increasingly panicked performance seems like the terrifying personification of the political paranoia that ruled the United States in the 1950s. Also very worth seeing because of this complexity! [...] On this journey into the darkness, the 'Departed' duo Scorsese and DiCaprio are in top form. "

“A suggestive horror thriller that virtuously interweaves genre patterns and borrowings from film history to create an ambiguous game between madness and reality and reflects on relationships of violence, which like an inescapable curse shape personal fates as well as recent history. As much as the atmospherically dense staging is captivating, the film remains rather vague in its message. "

Awards

Satellite Awards
  • 2010: Nominated: Best Production Design for Dante Ferretti , Max Biscoe , Robert Guerra and Christina Ann Wilson
  • 2010: Nominated: Best Cinematography for Robert Richardson
  • 2010: Nominated: Best Editing for Thelma Schoonmaker
  • 2010: Nominated: Best Editing for Phillip Stockton , Eugene Gearty , Tom Fleischman and Petur Hliddal
Casting Society of America
  • 2010: Nominated: Best Casting in a High Budget Drama for Carolyn Pickman and Ellen Lewis
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
  • 2010: Nominated: Best Cinematography for Robert Richardson
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards
  • 2010: Nominated: Best Film
  • 2010: Nominated: Best Editing for Thelma Schoonmaker
National Board of Review of Motion Pictures
  • 2010: Winner : Best Production Design for Dante Ferretti
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
  • 2010: Nominated: Best Editing for Thelma Schoonmaker
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
  • 2010: Winner : Best Production Design for Dante Ferretti
  • 2010: Nominated: Best Cinematography for Robert Richardson
  • 2010: Nominated: Best Adapted Screenplay for Laeta Kalogridis
Teen Choice Awards
  • 2011: Winner : Best Actor - Horror or Thriller for Leonardo DiCaprio
  • 2011: Nominated: Best Actress - Horror or Thriller for Michelle Williams
  • 2011: Nominated: Best Film - Horror or Thriller
Online Film Critics Society Awards
  • 2011: Nominated: Best Cinematography for Robert Richardson
Saturn Awards
  • 2011: Nominated: Best Film - Horror or Thriller
  • 2011: Nominated: Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio
  • 2011: Nominated: Best Supporting Actor for Mark Ruffalo
  • 2011: Nominated: Best Director for Martin Scorsese
  • 2011: Nominated: Best Production Design for Dante Ferretti
Central Ohio Film Critics Association
  • 2011: Nominated: Actor of the Year for Leonardo DiCaprio
Empire Awards
  • 2011: Nominated: Best Thriller
Cinema Audio Society
  • 2011: Nominated: best sound editing for Tom Fleischman and Petur Hliddal

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release certificate for Shutter Island . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2010 (PDF; test number: 121 634 K).
  2. Age rating for Shutter Island . Youth Media Commission .
  3. 60th Berlinale: World premieres by Martin Scorsese and Roman Polanski in the competition program. Retrieved June 6, 2010 .
  4. Hollywood steals lighthouse. In: Ostsee-Zeitung . Archived from the original on June 9, 2010 ; Retrieved June 9, 2010 .
  5. Worldwide box office earnings for Shutter Island
  6. 80 million US $ budget for Shuttler Island ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.darkhorizons.com
  7. highest paid actor in 2010
  8. Martin Thomson: From Caligari to Hitler to Scorsese. In: cut . 2010, accessed February 8, 2016 .
  9. ^ Carsten Baumgardt: Shutter Island. In: film starts . 2010, accessed February 8, 2016 .
  10. Shutter Island. Cinema Verlag, accessed September 15, 2013 (review and film trailer).
  11. Shutter Island. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 8, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used