Shutter Island Page #2

Synopsis: It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy's shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Director(s): Martin Scorsese
Production: Paramount Studios
  9 wins & 62 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.1
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
68%
R
Year:
2010
138 min
$125,001,000
Website
26,314 Views


Sometimes, but today ...

- more prone to seasickness.

-Ah, Dehydration ...

- You allright boss?

- Yes.

In that case you're quite right

Simpler the better.

thank you so much

Rachel still believe

her children are alived.

Also thought that this is her home

of Berckshires.

you are kidding.

in four years acknowldge

that she is in an institution

She believe we're all ...

deliveryman Milkman, postal workers.

to sustain the Illusion that her children never died

she created an elaborate fictional structure

she gives us all parts to play in that fiction

- so you searched the ground yet?

- the warden and his man scoured the island,

not a trace.

What's more disturbing, is that we don't know

how she got out of her room.

it was locked from the outside

and the only window is barred.

it's as if she evaporated straight

through the walls.

Brought her right back here after

group therapy, locked her in

I came back for midnight rounde

and she was gone

Seriously doctor, how is it possible

the truth never gets through her?

Ie, in an institution

mental illness, right?

seems like something you'de

notice from time to time

- How many pairs of shoes get patientsi?

- Two pairs.

Sanity is not a choice, marshal,

You can't just choode to get over it

So ... she left here barefoot?

Come on Doc, she can't get ten

yard in this terrain.

Marshall?

. The law of 4.

Who's 67?.

That's definitely Rachel's

Handwriting

I have no idea what the " law of 4" is, though

- Not a psychiatric term?

I'm afraid not.

Who's 67?

F*** if I know!

I'de have to say that's quite

close to my clinical conclusion

So you think it's just

random scribblings?

No, not at all. Rachel is smart .

Brilliant in fact.

- This paper that could be important.

- Excuse me Doctor, but ...

- We need to hold onto this.

- of course

The departure had to come through here.

After lights out, the orderlies play

card in here

Last night there were 7 man sitting

at the base of the atairs playing stud poker

And yet somehow, Rachel has managed

to slip by.

Why?

How? She turns invisible?

Doctor, we need access to personal files

of all medical staff

of nurses, guards, orderlies

- Everyone who worked here.

- we take your request under consideration.

This is not a request, Doctor.

This is a federal facility

and a dangerous prisoner ...

- Patient.

- Patient ...

- has escaped now. You can comply ...

- All I can say is that I will see what I can do.

Doctor, we'll need to speak with the staff,

do you understand?

I'll assemble them in the

common room after dinner.

If you have any further questions

feel free to join the dwputy warden in the search

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Laeta Kalogridis

Laeta Elizabeth Kalogridis is an American screenwriter and an executive producer. She has written scripts for Alexander, Night Watch, Pathfinder and Shutter Island. more…

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