Shutter Island

Shutter Island is the story of two U.S. Marshalls (Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo) who are sent to a psychiatric institute to investigate the case of a missing mental patient. The film begins with a very intense and unsettling soundtrack as the two main characters arrive on the island to begin their investigation of the missing patient, Rachel Solando, who is reported to be the murderer of her own children. The investigation begins with a search of the island which turns up nothing more than a small note found in Rachel’s room that says “The law of four, who is 67?” There are 66 patients on the island, and the question is, who is the 67th? The next step of the investigation involves the questioning of some of the patients on the island. After questioning a few patients, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, Teddy Daniels, begins to wonder if there are mental experiments being performed on this island. Soon after, he has a dream of his past. In the dream he is a World War 2 soldier involved in the raid of a concentration camp. At this point Daniels thinks he has uncovered a conspiracy and begins to search the island to find out what exactly is going on there. He begins discussing the conspiracy with his partner and relates the possible mental experimentation on the island to what was happening in Nazi concentration camps during World War 2.
The next day, as he resumes his search of the missing Rachel Solando, he also begins to investigate the conspiracy. Just as he begins to scratch the surface of the conspiracy though, Rachel is found. The plot line continues to twist as Daniels continues to have dreams of his dead wife and his experiences in the war. Soon thereafter, a storm overtakes the island and all of the patients are released as the electronic door locks fail. Daniels sees this as a perfect opportunity to continue his investigation of the conspiracy since he is now able to wander the island without being deterred and misled by the institutional workers. At this point he decides to go to ward C, which is where all of the most dangerous patients on the island are housed. Just after entering the facility, he runs across one of the guards who has been showing him around the island. Strangely, the guard allows him to continue wandering around the restricted access ward. While inside the ward, he comes across a man who he apparently knows and begins to question why he is there. Once again, Daniels has visions of his wife, but this time she is inside the cell with the man. Daniels is now determined more than ever to uncover the conspiracy so that he can get his friend off the island. The last place to be checked on the island is a lighthouse just off the coast which Daniels decides to investigate by himself. Upon reaching the top he finds all of the answers he has been looking for and Daniels uncovers the truth. He is actually the 67th patient, and the conspiracy was all a fabrication of his mind.