Shutter island – Generic conventions:
Shutter island, a psychological thriller, uses typical generic conventions to emphasise the sub - genre. The narrative centres on crime when considering the escape of a patient who Leonardo Dicaprio (Teddy Daniels) is trying to find. By the end of the film we realise that the criminal investigation was actually used to cover up Teddy Daniels’ illness.
The weakness of the film is in fact Teddy Daniels as he is deceived throughout the majority of the film until the end we he finds out why he is really on the Island, his mental disorder. This shows him to be extremely Fallible. The antagonist isn’t a specific person, it is in fact the whole ‘team’ that he believes he is working with, including the doctor, chief warden and his partner detective.
Teddy occasionally appears in peril throughout the movie, for example, when he enters the 'block' containing all the dangerous 'psychos,' he is violently attacked by one of the patients.
The antagonist (in this case all the people decieving him), end up making Teddy feel isolated and confused after telling him the truth and the fact he is on the Island, never to leave it again.
There is a form of doubling in the film when looking at Teddy's illness: he believes thathe is a detective working on an escape case involving a prisoner in one of the wards on the island. He, is infact an inmate and is repeatedly told about this, but he forgets every 24 hours and things he is a completely different person.
In terms of reflection, mirroring and illusion, I am almost certain that there isn't a phsical object that is in fact an illusion, but when Teddy is told about the case it of course is an illusion as it's not real. In Shutter Island there isn't any mirroring or reflecting.
As far as I understand there is no theme of voyeurism in Shutter Island.
There is a form of doubling in the film when looking at Teddy's illness: he believes thathe is a detective working on an escape case involving a prisoner in one of the wards on the island. He, is infact an inmate and is repeatedly told about this, but he forgets every 24 hours and things he is a completely different person.
In terms of reflection, mirroring and illusion, I am almost certain that there isn't a phsical object that is in fact an illusion, but when Teddy is told about the case it of course is an illusion as it's not real. In Shutter Island there isn't any mirroring or reflecting.
As far as I understand there is no theme of voyeurism in Shutter Island.
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