Shutter Island was released this month staring Leonardo DiCaprios and Mark Ruffalo. It is based in the 1950s, a decade in which ignorance was still bliss. Teddy Daniels, DiCaprios’ character is a U.S. marshal that is given the assignment of investigated a patient that disappeared on Shutter Island, a hospital for mentally unstable people. As the plot twists Teddy Daniels questions his reasoning for actually being sent to the island. A hurricane hit the island keeping him on the island and enables to contact the mainland. More danger hits Teddy Daniels confusing him and leading him to doubt everything. He thinks he is by himself and no one is trustworthy. While on the journey of Shutter Island Teddy Daniels has flashbacks of the holocaust and pictures the war he went through. Not only does the movie allude to the holocaust but it also shows the ignorance people had in the 50s when treating mentally ill patients. The island was made to give the patients a home where they could be treated and hopefully saved with out being put under surgery. I think this movie should be shown in the class politics and reel life because it gives an issue that usually isn’t brought up in the cinema. Mental illness affects a huge percentage of people in today’s world. There isn’t a lot of awareness on the subject though. I think with our new technology there should be less ignorance on the subject. Also there is a lot of discrimination with the mentally ill. Usually if there is a movie on those who are abnormal it is a comedy and it makes fun of the struggles they have. Shutter Island shows how they were treated and still are treated; it also gives an idea to how the mentally ill see the world.
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