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Rewatching the movie for a second time, it’s crazy to see all the clues and hints they put in throughout the movie to show that he’s actually crazy. Love that you guys are watching this !!
This is Marty's best film imo. Granted i havent seen every single one of his films but out of what ive seen this is not only the most well written film he's directed but its also the most rewatchable imo
I think one of the best clues is that whenever leo wants to smoke, theres always someone who lights his smoke for him. Thats cause inmates or patients r not allowed to carry matches
It's not about regression. It's about living as a monster, as in a killer. As in aware. He didn't want to live that way. His kids being killed and him killing his wife
Agreed. It most certainly would play a part. He regresses when he starts feeling too much guilt about what happened. His mind protects him from the truth by creating delusions. @@davidroman2251
Fun Fact: 14:45 In this scene, the twist was secretly revealed. When the lady receives the glass of water and drinks it, it suddenly disappears and we only see the lady's hand as she pretends to hold the glass with her fingers. When she puts it down on the table, we see an empty glass. When she gets up from the table, the glass is half full again. At the end of the movie, it turns out that DiCaprio's character has good reason to have such a strange perception of all things related to water. In this scene, Scorsese has made it clear in the most cunning way that something very strange is happening to DiCaprio's character. Because I suppose you didn't notice it at first, or thought it was just a blooper.
Additionally, in that same scene, all the patients always have a guard standing over their shoulder in the frame. The lady and Leo both have a guard behind them, Mark Ruffalo's character does not.
One of the best twist endings I have ever seen, and the movie actually turns from a psychological conspiracy thriller into a tragedy when you rewatch it. Sir Ben Kingsley’s character is honestly the best person in this movie because he represents empathy and love. He represents what modern psychiatry is evolving into while everyone else besides Mark Ruffalo’s character just looks at all the patients as animals that need to be contained rather than people that need help.
That's my favorite part of this movie I think - that the twist was also that it wasn't the usual scary mental asylum trope. They got the entire island involved, including the patients, in an attempt to cure him. It was such a kind thing to do. This is the premise that the original asylums that started in France were built on - kindness and gentleness as cure. They had no medical treatments, so they built these grand estates with calming gardens, assuming that all mental illness was due to an overstimulated mind. They weren't wrong - they just didn't know why. It's so sad and sick that the original model was abandoned in favor of cruelty, which has today transformed into demanding people "fix it" on their own or sending them to prison. Mental illness needs community involvement. Maybe not on the level of getting a whole island involved, lol, but kindness and gentleness as part of community care would do a world of good.
The last part is really tragic. When I watched it for the first time, I thought Teddy started living his fantasy again. But, later I figured out that, No. He was well, but the guilt was killing him, so he faked it. He didn't wanna live as a monster.
One of my all-time favorites. Such a masterpiece and Leo's last line and your jaw just drops knowing he'd rather have the lobotomy than deal with the pain and memories.
On rewatch a lot of the people who seem sus throughout the movie are actually just nervous being around an unrestrained Leo cause he's so dangerous. It does such a good job making you think "Somethings up everyone's so suspicious!" and then later you realize oh shit... they weren't uncomfortable because they were lying or hiding something... which I guess they were but it was that HE was the super dangerous patient.
For me, the most impactful moment was when Delores begged Andrew to “set me free…” I remember seeing that the very first time and for whatever reason, I felt all of the weight ‘she’ was feeling in that selfsame moment. One of the saddest scenes I have ever seen.
Personally I think they suggested that he didn't regressed cuz Leo says at the end that " which would be worse to live as a monster or die as a man". He choose to lobotomize rather than living remembering that he was responsible for his kids and wife
Scorsese has conjured up a nightmarish cinematic display of his talents, quite unlike anything he’s shown us before. Can’t wait to see his next film, Killers of the Flower Moon, this weekend
I read the book first. This movie was a VERY close adaption. They are written by Dennis Lehane, the same author as Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone. Both great movies as well.
I want to cry! People usually don't react to this movie and I'm sooo glad you are. It's sooo good. There are so mnay layers. No matter how many times you watch it, you can have so mnay different experiences.
God I’m so glad to watch watch Tara and Andrew react to one of my fav movies EVER. This was my first “mental wtf “ ending thriller I watched and what got me hooked on psychological thrillers.
The ending is pretty definitive. I don’t see it as a cliffhanger at all, because of the last thing he says to “chuck.” About living as a monster or dying a good man. He chose the lobotomy. He was aware.
Such an underrated and unknown film, my favourite film of all time. Especially for full on film nerds who appreciate things like symbolism and foreshadowing, this film does it the best.
I first watched this movie with my not too long ago. I did not expect the ending at all. I did not expect everything this movie had. It definitely is a great experience. Got to love movies with very interesting twists.
Still criminal that the Oscar’s didn’t nominate this film for ANYTHING. sound, cinematography, best actor, best director, best picture.. nothing. Going through the nominees for 2011 Oscar’s and I see so many duds where instead this great film could have been recognized 😡 This film should have been nominated in the big categories instead of the True Grit remake . True Grit?!? Wtf 😂
My interpretation is that at the end it worked. He accepted what happened and what he did, but couldn’t live with what he did. So he knew if he pretended that he regressed back he’d get lobotomized and he’d be free. That he’d either forget it all or he’d pretty much brain dead and finally be at peace either way.
Such a mind-bending movie! And don't even get me started on the music! One of the best psychological thrillers ever. I love Leo's and Mark's performances in this.
A movie that many people don't know about that kind of reminded me of Shutter Island a lot was "A Cure For Wellness". It's not as impressive as Shutter Island, but something about it stuck with me. I would definitely recommend it. Goegeous cinematography, creepy atmosphere and Dane De Haan.
One interesting thing about this is how it shows the dueling fields of psychology/psychiatry and their disciplines: cognitive/behavioral therapy, psychopharmacology, and surgical intervention. Dr Naehring probably is the most interesting. Teddy labels him as a Nazi, but based on things he said, his age, and that he came from Germany he likely started as a student of psychoanalysis in Germany (or Austria). Psychoanalysis was in an awkward place during WWII because it was seen as a 'Jewish science'. That might explain why he was so amused when Teddy implied that he was a Nazi doctor working in concentration camps.
I always pray that my aunt never saw this movie because my cousin also drowned in some backyard pond when she was 4 years old. Now, the pond wasn't nearly as deep, it was insanely flat actually and she didn't GET drowned of course. But it still split the family apart, over 20 years ago now.....
That moment when he asked the question, would you rather live to be a monster or die as a hero was his little way of saying that he wasn’t crazy and that he fully understood what was going to be done to him and that instead of living with the thought of his wife killinghis kids and him killing her. He would rather just be dead to the world as a vegetable not remembering anything.
Underneath the suspense of it all, it's a very heartbreaking story :( And it also moves me how much time and resources everyone in the institution put on that plan to try and save him, it kinds shows a little heart and care for the patients, which it usually isn't the case in movies with that setting.
Such a fantastic movie. The dialogue and writing in this movie is phenomenal! He was absolutely healed in the end i believe. Great movie i have re watched numerous times.
My favorite movie of all time. I can literally watch it every weekend and still not get tired of it. This is the movie Leo should have gotten the Oscar for.
I love how Scorsese made this a different type of haunted house film, where the ghost is Leo's psychy, and to ind the reason for the haunting, he needs to come to terms with his psychotic break. Very smart...
It's not in the clips in this video, but I love Leo's line after he tells the story of his PTSD in war. "It wasn't war, they weren't armed - it was murder" It's just this tragic reality that they had stooped to their level, committed some of the horror that they did. It's terrifying. Just an instinctual momentary reaction caused atrocity, and the warden brings him back to it in the car drive, it's terrfying...
@RandyReviews1990 Been years since I read it but I remember it being short, a quick read. The film was denser and had a little more going for it. Like a condensed version of the movie. But Dennis Lehane novels are always good.
He was sane at the end. He was pretending not to be because he wanted the treatment because he couldn't bare remembering what his wife had done and what he had done to her. He wanted the treatment so he could forget it all. He did not want to live as monster.
Loved watching this this morning while I do my Spark deliveries. Probably one of the most underrated Martin Scorsese movies of all time love the content! Please watch alongs get me through my day, while doing my deliveries, you guys and gals rock!
you guys should see Revolutionary Road with leonardo dicaprio and kate wislet , yes, jack and rose from the titanic film !! its such a good film ,very real and dark but great.
I used to work in a nursing home, and many of the residents thought they were staying at a hotel or somewhere temporarily, and that someone was coming to take them home very soon! It was so sad to see. One guy kept his luggage packed at all times thinking he'd be leaving any time. Poor old guy. Not an uncommon thing in such places, and nuthouses too obviously.
About what you said about rewatching this movie I agree , I watched this like 5 times when I first found it , and the thing keeps popping up in my brain
You mentioned how the acting was so good that it never felt like anybody was acting -- and I agree, the acting was spectacular across the board -- but what takes it to another level for me is something you see better on a second watch: All the staff members of Shutter Island that Teddy/Andrew meets and interviews along the way are playing along with the Doctor's plan to indulge Andrew's delusion of being "Teddy, the marshall who's investigating a missing patient." Some of them are pretending to be guards, some are actual nurses and orderlies who aren't 100% onboard with the experiment and and are half-assing it (or are trying but aren't really good at roleplaying their part), some are patients who've been asked to play along, and, of course, Mark Ruffalo's character is pretending to be a marshall/Teddy's partner. The first time you watch the movie, everyone seem either sus, nervous, afraid, uncomfortable, evasive, defiant, or various other shades of suspicious, and all of that just reinforces your feeling that there's some evil conspiracy on Shutter Island, that they're hiding something, they're being coerced, etc. The second time you watch it, though, you realize that these characters are just regular people who aren't particularly good at acting, maybe don't agree with the doctor's wacky plan, have real tasks they need to get done in their job instead of wasting time getting "interrogated" by a patient who thinks he's a cop, or are patients who are trying to play along and help out but are easily derailed from the roleplay. So, it's that always impressive feat of actors acting like people who aren't good at acting. And what's most impressive is that they're not doing it in a hammy, over-the-top "can't act" way; they're hitting exactly that perfect level of subtlety so that, when you eventually know the secret and watch it again, you see the poor acting, but the real actors perfectly sell that illusion that these are just normal people doing their best to play along but, being non-actors, are not really pulling it off fully. IT'S. SO. WELL. DONE.
Rewatching has completely changed my mind. Teddy wasn't crazy. He went in to expose the place and they gaslight & drugged him into thinking he was someone he wasn't
LOVE this film and enjoyed your reaction and assessment of it. Two things that you weren't sure about that I wanted to touch on: 1 - At one point you were wondering why he was on the boat if he was patient 67. That is why the Doctor was with him acting as his assistant marshall. They set up the scenario to try and get him to admit the truth to himself and move forward. Because he had regressed into this false story of someone else who killed his wife and burnt the house down. So they allowed the two of them to leave and enter by the ship. I am guessing even the Captain of the boat would have been in on it, and gone slightly out only to let the story play out and them return like at the start of the film. 2 - You were wondering if he regressed or not and if he was labotomised. There is much down to interpretation of the viewer there of course, but I feel certain signs at the end give it away. You see the Doctor shake his head towards the others. In his mind Leo's character has regressed and it is too late. “This place makes me wonder, which would be worse,” Teddy (Leo) says. “to live as a monster or to die as a good man?” Then you can kind of see this sad look on Leo's face. The Doctor next to him is taken aback. You can see clearly that something is wrong. I bet he is thinking "What do you mean?! Are you faking it to end it all?" Leo's character has had enough and has decided that the only way to end this is to be lobotomised. A staff member is carrying a tool. The Doctor's clearly knew this might happen and are ready to immediately start the lobotomy. Shift to the lighthouse...
Not being able to feel pain would be bad and desensitizing. There's a reason it's one of the earlier things many species evolved since it rapidly alerts you to damage occurring to your body.
I think this is such an underrated Scorsese movie, people probably think I'm crazy cuz this is my favorite film of his. I love a good mystery thriller but throw phycological and atmospheric on top of that, just amazing. Loved everything about this film and the shots were amazing. Obviously it's a lot of awful traumatic things this guy experienced and his mind just couldn't deal with it, completely understandable from what happened. At the end whether he did actually regress which I think he did personally or he pretended to regress so they would lobotomize him, he wanted to forget.
And I didn't Google this, so I could be wrong, but there are so many Inception, Cobb-Mal vibes exploding everywhere, I have to imagine that Christopher Nolan got a lot of inspiration from this.
This movie is fantastic. The scene of them drinking out of a glass and the water levels (or glass existing) changes from cut to cut, I caught it in the theater but not enough to really tell what had happened- until the twist and I realized it was an intentional moment.
There's another good movie that's based on another book by the author of Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane. It's not made by the same people but it's still a must see, it's called Gone Baby Gone and stars Casey Affleck, Ed Harris, Michelle Monaghan and Morgan Freeman.
If u notice, Whenever he wanted to smoke,Only Mark Ruffalo was able to light up his ciggerate causeonly officials can keep lighters and matchboxes etc,patients not allowed to keep the things which can harm himself and others in the island
I watch this today with my friends. When I got home. I watched your reaction video. Then I noticed everything now!! Every hint!! Do you guys remember the conversation on the boar between chuck and teddy(Leo)? Chuck is really the psychiatrist. He was telling him about his past trauma like how counseling works. Teddy didn’t have his own cigarette & matches because he’s a patient. The first dream he had with the wife. The wife was vanishing with ashes because that’s the story in his delusions BUT I was puzzled when I saw her guts is oozing blood. Like how is that possible right if she got burned? So that could mean other thing happened to her which is her being shot by Andrew (Leo). I also noticed the dialogue of the Warden references the Lobotomy. Also when they were asking the staffs from the beginning the nurse looked at her side when she told about the doctor Sheehan. I think she looked at chuck (who is also doctor sheehan). Pretty cool clues.
one of the films with a plot twist that made me watch the film twice to see the hint of the twist itself that was presented in the film, because I still remember when I watched it there were many scenes that felt odd and strange which made me feel that this was not a good film, it turned out to be a strange scene What I found was a sign that during the film there were delusions experienced by DiCaprio's character himself🤣🤣
I'd be curious to know how many people saw the ending coming just by watching the trailer. Because I sure as hell did. They showed that one scene in the trailer with the fire and I thought, "Oh, let me guess... He's crazy" I think even without seeing the trailer knowing tropes of certain films it's kinda hard not to see that coming.
I don’t think the ending is intended to be ambiguous at all. His last question about dying as a good man (Teddy) vs living as a monster (Andrew) proved that to me as it would be too much of a coincidence to ask that specific question at that exact moment if he thought he was still a U.S. Marshall. There’s other hints in that scene too that show his awareness of the situation: 1. He looks down in shame right after he asks the question, which he wouldn’t do if he was just wondering hypothetically about the other patients. 2. After pretending to be Teddy when Dr. Sheehan comes to sit with him, he is watching as he signals to the other Doctors that the experiment didn’t work. He would likely find his partner suspicious if he caught him trying to communicate with then people he thinks they are working to expose, but has no reaction. 3. Now that he saw the signal and knows the staff has been notified, he sees the orderlies coming towards him waiting to take him to be lobotomized. He gets up and walks towards them, pausing for just a moment before continuing, seemingly implying he knows where he is going and what is about to happen. 4. When Dr. Sheehan calls out to him “Teddy?” as he’s walking away, he doesn’t look back or respond to that name because he knows he’s really Andrew and not Teddy. He was fully aware and just didn’t want to live with that reality anymore. Definitely one of my favorite movies and one that gets better the more you watch it as you pick up on all the little details and clues. Especially love the scene of the Warden (extra creepy since the character is played by Ted Levine aka Buffalo Bill) driving him back and telling him he has known him a long time and knows how violent he is, and even tries to provoke him into attacking him. Knowing what we know now, it’s clear he did that intentionally in an attempt to make him fail the experiment as he did not believe he deserved a second chance. He even smiles at the end and immediately signals to the orderlies to take him away after Dr. Sheehan lets them know that the experiment didn’t work.
I still want to know in the scene where they're interviewing the patients and she gets a glass of water. When she goes to drink it there is nothing in her hand. I wonder if that whole thing was a hallucination.
you two are my favorite reaction pair combo - perfect balance of keen observation, insight, humor, and empathy. andrew "he'll save everyone of us" gordon is my mvp (is he a 1099 mercenary that takes these contract jobs on different YT channels? lol - i see him everywhere)
Watching this a second time, there are a TON of subtle hints. Look at 13:59 where Leo is getting way too aggressive. You can see Mark Ruffalo dart his eyes over to the guy like .. help?
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Rewatching the movie for a second time, it’s crazy to see all the clues and hints they put in throughout the movie to show that he’s actually crazy. Love that you guys are watching this !!
Right in the beginning with the guy not able to take out his gun should have told me something was off
This is Marty's best film imo. Granted i havent seen every single one of his films but out of what ive seen this is not only the most well written film he's directed but its also the most rewatchable imo
Agreed, the second watch is so entertaining because of this
rewatching it you’ll notice how all the guards and nurses are giving Andrew the side eye, or little glances to “Chuck,” his actual doctor.
I think one of the best clues is that whenever leo wants to smoke, theres always someone who lights his smoke for him. Thats cause inmates or patients r not allowed to carry matches
He definitely healed at the end. He was finally clear-minded and chose to get “treatment by needle” to forget. He didn’t want to regress.
It's not about regression. It's about living as a monster, as in a killer. As in aware. He didn't want to live that way. His kids being killed and him killing his wife
If this was real I’m sure the fear of regression would also definitely play a part in his decision but you make a solid point.
Agreed. It most certainly would play a part. He regresses when he starts feeling too much guilt about what happened. His mind protects him from the truth by creating delusions. @@davidroman2251
very sad😢
Fun Fact:
14:45 In this scene, the twist was secretly revealed. When the lady receives the glass of water and drinks it, it suddenly disappears and we only see the lady's hand as she pretends to hold the glass with her fingers. When she puts it down on the table, we see an empty glass. When she gets up from the table, the glass is half full again. At the end of the movie, it turns out that DiCaprio's character has good reason to have such a strange perception of all things related to water. In this scene, Scorsese has made it clear in the most cunning way that something very strange is happening to DiCaprio's character. Because I suppose you didn't notice it at first, or thought it was just a blooper.
Additionally, in that same scene, all the patients always have a guard standing over their shoulder in the frame. The lady and Leo both have a guard behind them, Mark Ruffalo's character does not.
One of the best twist endings I have ever seen, and the movie actually turns from a psychological conspiracy thriller into a tragedy when you rewatch it. Sir Ben Kingsley’s character is honestly the best person in this movie because he represents empathy and love. He represents what modern psychiatry is evolving into while everyone else besides Mark Ruffalo’s character just looks at all the patients as animals that need to be contained rather than people that need help.
That's my favorite part of this movie I think - that the twist was also that it wasn't the usual scary mental asylum trope. They got the entire island involved, including the patients, in an attempt to cure him. It was such a kind thing to do.
This is the premise that the original asylums that started in France were built on - kindness and gentleness as cure. They had no medical treatments, so they built these grand estates with calming gardens, assuming that all mental illness was due to an overstimulated mind. They weren't wrong - they just didn't know why.
It's so sad and sick that the original model was abandoned in favor of cruelty, which has today transformed into demanding people "fix it" on their own or sending them to prison. Mental illness needs community involvement. Maybe not on the level of getting a whole island involved, lol, but kindness and gentleness as part of community care would do a world of good.
It really is a tragedy. That final moment, choosing to get the lobotomy over knowing what happened. Amazingly performed and well done.
Thank you! You put it in words perfectly.
The last part is really tragic. When I watched it for the first time, I thought Teddy started living his fantasy again. But, later I figured out that, No. He was well, but the guilt was killing him, so he faked it. He didn't wanna live as a monster.
One of my all-time favorites. Such a masterpiece and Leo's last line and your jaw just drops knowing he'd rather have the lobotomy than deal with the pain and memories.
On rewatch a lot of the people who seem sus throughout the movie are actually just nervous being around an unrestrained Leo cause he's so dangerous. It does such a good job making you think "Somethings up everyone's so suspicious!" and then later you realize oh shit... they weren't uncomfortable because they were lying or hiding something... which I guess they were but it was that HE was the super dangerous patient.
For me, the most impactful moment was when Delores begged Andrew to “set me free…” I remember seeing that the very first time and for whatever reason, I felt all of the weight ‘she’ was feeling in that selfsame moment. One of the saddest scenes I have ever seen.
Personally I think they suggested that he didn't regressed cuz Leo says at the end that " which would be worse to live as a monster or die as a man". He choose to lobotomize rather than living remembering that he was responsible for his kids and wife
Those doctors went way above and beyond to help him.
The world needs more places like shutter Island.
Scorsese has conjured up a nightmarish cinematic display of his talents, quite unlike anything he’s shown us before. Can’t wait to see his next film, Killers of the Flower Moon, this weekend
If you enjoy it, Bones of Crows is another amazing indigenous film that came out this year
I read the book first. This movie was a VERY close adaption. They are written by Dennis Lehane, the same author as Mystic River and Gone Baby Gone. Both great movies as well.
I want to cry! People usually don't react to this movie and I'm sooo glad you are. It's sooo good. There are so mnay layers. No matter how many times you watch it, you can have so mnay different experiences.
To have this and Inception come out within months of each other. Made it a good year and turning point for Leo's career.
It was pretty insane. I guess if you work with the best you can expect good results. Btw his best work so far, he nailed it.
God I’m so glad to watch watch Tara and Andrew react to one of my fav movies EVER. This was my first “mental wtf “ ending thriller I watched and what got me hooked on psychological thrillers.
watch "The Sixth Sense" if you haven't yet
I love when people reacting to this film don't even get the ending hahahahha
The ending is pretty definitive. I don’t see it as a cliffhanger at all, because of the last thing he says to “chuck.” About living as a monster or dying a good man. He chose the lobotomy. He was aware.
Such a great movie to rewatch! There were clues I hadn't noticed the first time around. Hope you guys enjoy! ❤😊
So excited that Tara and Andrew are reacting to this movie! This movie is so good and has a crazy twist! 👍
Such an underrated and unknown film, my favourite film of all time. Especially for full on film nerds who appreciate things like symbolism and foreshadowing, this film does it the best.
Did you see that twist coming?!
The twist was mind blowing I don’t think everyone saw it coming
Nope it's definitely up there with saw 1, old and sixth sense
Saw this in the theaters and the ending made me so angry I’m still not over it lol
I first watched this movie with my not too long ago. I did not expect the ending at all. I did not expect everything this movie had. It definitely is a great experience. Got to love movies with very interesting twists.
Today? Yes. First time watching this? Not even Close.
Still criminal that the Oscar’s didn’t nominate this film for ANYTHING. sound, cinematography, best actor, best director, best picture.. nothing. Going through the nominees for 2011 Oscar’s and I see so many duds where instead this great film could have been recognized 😡
This film should have been nominated in the big categories instead of the True Grit remake . True Grit?!? Wtf 😂
My interpretation is that at the end it worked. He accepted what happened and what he did, but couldn’t live with what he did. So he knew if he pretended that he regressed back he’d get lobotomized and he’d be free. That he’d either forget it all or he’d pretty much brain dead and finally be at peace either way.
a pattern in a lot of leonardo dicaprio movies is that he plays roles where he covers up his true dentity under a disguise identity.
Such a mind-bending movie! And don't even get me started on the music! One of the best psychological thrillers ever. I love Leo's and Mark's performances in this.
To live like a monster or die like a hero _ one of the best lines to end a movie ever
A movie that many people don't know about that kind of reminded me of Shutter Island a lot was "A Cure For Wellness".
It's not as impressive as Shutter Island, but something about it stuck with me. I would definitely recommend it.
Goegeous cinematography, creepy atmosphere and Dane De Haan.
One interesting thing about this is how it shows the dueling fields of psychology/psychiatry and their disciplines: cognitive/behavioral therapy, psychopharmacology, and surgical intervention.
Dr Naehring probably is the most interesting. Teddy labels him as a Nazi, but based on things he said, his age, and that he came from Germany he likely started as a student of psychoanalysis in Germany (or Austria). Psychoanalysis was in an awkward place during WWII because it was seen as a 'Jewish science'. That might explain why he was so amused when Teddy implied that he was a Nazi doctor working in concentration camps.
I always pray that my aunt never saw this movie because my cousin also drowned in some backyard pond when she was 4 years old. Now, the pond wasn't nearly as deep, it was insanely flat actually and she didn't GET drowned of course. But it still split the family apart, over 20 years ago now.....
That moment when he asked the question, would you rather live to be a monster or die as a hero was his little way of saying that he wasn’t crazy and that he fully understood what was going to be done to him and that instead of living with the thought of his wife killinghis kids and him killing her. He would rather just be dead to the world as a vegetable not remembering anything.
I have 3 kids. And the scene in the lake with Leo screaming crushes me every time. I could never imagine something like that happening.
Underneath the suspense of it all, it's a very heartbreaking story :( And it also moves me how much time and resources everyone in the institution put on that plan to try and save him, it kinds shows a little heart and care for the patients, which it usually isn't the case in movies with that setting.
Such an amazing movie the acting is great and the ending is so thought-provoking
Such a fantastic movie. The dialogue and writing in this movie is phenomenal! He was absolutely healed in the end i believe. Great movie i have re watched numerous times.
It's 2023.. 7 years since I watched this movie and I'm still confused and processing
My favorite movie of all time. I can literally watch it every weekend and still not get tired of it. This is the movie Leo should have gotten the Oscar for.
I love how Scorsese made this a different type of haunted house film, where the ghost is Leo's psychy, and to ind the reason for the haunting, he needs to come to terms with his psychotic break. Very smart...
*psyche
It's not in the clips in this video, but I love Leo's line after he tells the story of his PTSD in war.
"It wasn't war, they weren't armed - it was murder"
It's just this tragic reality that they had stooped to their level, committed some of the horror that they did. It's terrifying. Just an instinctual momentary reaction caused atrocity, and the warden brings him back to it in the car drive, it's terrfying...
Man I was obsessed with this when it came out! Theaters, DVD, the book.
Fresh off the heels of Departed I think, I used to love Shutter Island
is the book good?
@RandyReviews1990
Been years since I read it but I remember it being short, a quick read. The film was denser and had a little more going for it.
Like a condensed version of the movie.
But Dennis Lehane novels are always good.
@@WRDend iam a huge stephen king fan so his books are the only books i own, this might be a case where a film is better than the book!
It's really fun re-watching the movie and finding all the clues.
I was confused as hell in the movies as a 11 year old but was still entertained 😭😭🔥
He was sane at the end. He was pretending not to be because he wanted the treatment because he couldn't bare remembering what his wife had done and what he had done to her. He wanted the treatment so he could forget it all. He did not want to live as monster.
LOVE this movie and watched it multiple times before realizing Leo’s character was actually healed at the end and it was his choice
I just finished watching the movie
I was shocked by the end. overall He deserves 10/10
Watching y’all watching this for the first time while I know what happens is so much fun!
Loved watching this this morning while I do my Spark deliveries. Probably one of the most underrated Martin Scorsese movies of all time love the content! Please watch alongs get me through my day, while doing my deliveries, you guys and gals rock!
“To live as a monster, or die as a good man.”
He didn’t regress. He was choosing to die as a “good man.”
This movie had one crazy twist ending that people still talk about!
The invisible glass of water during the patient interview trips me out every time. This movie is a genuine masterclass
"wat", "wow", "oh", "wow", "wait, wat", "oh", "yeah", "wow"
nice reactions btw
you guys should see Revolutionary Road with leonardo dicaprio and kate wislet , yes, jack and rose from the titanic film !! its such a good film ,very real and dark but great.
The atmosphere is so “uncomfortable” and well-done, and then that twist really hits emotionally. Loved the reaction!
This has been one of my favourites since it came out. Really glad you guys liked it as much as you did, it's an excellent film.
17:06 Vampire Andrew confirmed! He almost said he has seen it before but came around with a last second save.
A movie I watched this year for the first time and loved it 👏🏻
I used to work in a nursing home, and many of the residents thought they were staying at a hotel or somewhere temporarily, and that someone was coming to take them home very soon! It was so sad to see. One guy kept his luggage packed at all times thinking he'd be leaving any time. Poor old guy. Not an uncommon thing in such places, and nuthouses too obviously.
The ending always makes me sob 😢
Lets F'in goooo. Love this movie. Leo, Hulk and The Mandarin are awesome.
About what you said about rewatching this movie I agree , I watched this like 5 times when I first found it , and the thing keeps popping up in my brain
This Leo movie releasing along with Inception in 2010 was wild, they even have the cliffhanger ending.
Listen to the last thing he says. They want you to think he went back to not remembering but he does and wants it to be over.
How did i not get a notification for this reaction i have tbem set to go off anytime you post one. Love you Tara and i love this movie soooo much
I love it when Tara says nope
Someone finally reacts to this. Watched it when it first came out and let me tell you, I was never the same. A masterpiece
Great movie, even after some rewatches the twists just hit because of the writing and acting
You mentioned how the acting was so good that it never felt like anybody was acting -- and I agree, the acting was spectacular across the board -- but what takes it to another level for me is something you see better on a second watch: All the staff members of Shutter Island that Teddy/Andrew meets and interviews along the way are playing along with the Doctor's plan to indulge Andrew's delusion of being "Teddy, the marshall who's investigating a missing patient." Some of them are pretending to be guards, some are actual nurses and orderlies who aren't 100% onboard with the experiment and and are half-assing it (or are trying but aren't really good at roleplaying their part), some are patients who've been asked to play along, and, of course, Mark Ruffalo's character is pretending to be a marshall/Teddy's partner. The first time you watch the movie, everyone seem either sus, nervous, afraid, uncomfortable, evasive, defiant, or various other shades of suspicious, and all of that just reinforces your feeling that there's some evil conspiracy on Shutter Island, that they're hiding something, they're being coerced, etc.
The second time you watch it, though, you realize that these characters are just regular people who aren't particularly good at acting, maybe don't agree with the doctor's wacky plan, have real tasks they need to get done in their job instead of wasting time getting "interrogated" by a patient who thinks he's a cop, or are patients who are trying to play along and help out but are easily derailed from the roleplay.
So, it's that always impressive feat of actors acting like people who aren't good at acting. And what's most impressive is that they're not doing it in a hammy, over-the-top "can't act" way; they're hitting exactly that perfect level of subtlety so that, when you eventually know the secret and watch it again, you see the poor acting, but the real actors perfectly sell that illusion that these are just normal people doing their best to play along but, being non-actors, are not really pulling it off fully. IT'S. SO. WELL. DONE.
Rewatching has completely changed my mind. Teddy wasn't crazy.
He went in to expose the place and they gaslight & drugged him into thinking he was someone he wasn't
The what?
brainded comment
LOVE this film and enjoyed your reaction and assessment of it.
Two things that you weren't sure about that I wanted to touch on:
1 - At one point you were wondering why he was on the boat if he was patient 67.
That is why the Doctor was with him acting as his assistant marshall. They set up the scenario to try and get him to admit the truth to himself and move forward.
Because he had regressed into this false story of someone else who killed his wife and burnt the house down. So they allowed the two of them to leave and enter by the ship.
I am guessing even the Captain of the boat would have been in on it, and gone slightly out only to let the story play out and them return like at the start of the film.
2 - You were wondering if he regressed or not and if he was labotomised.
There is much down to interpretation of the viewer there of course, but I feel certain signs at the end give it away.
You see the Doctor shake his head towards the others. In his mind Leo's character has regressed and it is too late.
“This place makes me wonder, which would be worse,” Teddy (Leo) says. “to live as a monster or to die as a good man?”
Then you can kind of see this sad look on Leo's face. The Doctor next to him is taken aback. You can see clearly that something is wrong.
I bet he is thinking "What do you mean?! Are you faking it to end it all?"
Leo's character has had enough and has decided that the only way to end this is to be lobotomised.
A staff member is carrying a tool. The Doctor's clearly knew this might happen and are ready to immediately start the lobotomy.
Shift to the lighthouse...
Not being able to feel pain would be bad and desensitizing. There's a reason it's one of the earlier things many species evolved since it rapidly alerts you to damage occurring to your body.
Which is worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man? Love this movie.
Tara’s slowly taking the channel over and I’m here for it
It's technically a thriller, but it's as close as you can get to a Martin Scorcese horror movie.
I think Cape Fear is more horror to
@@ReelRejects good call, forgot about Cape Fear.
This movie was overshadowed by Inception the year it came out, but imo it's even better
I think this is such an underrated Scorsese movie, people probably think I'm crazy cuz this is my favorite film of his. I love a good mystery thriller but throw phycological and atmospheric on top of that, just amazing. Loved everything about this film and the shots were amazing. Obviously it's a lot of awful traumatic things this guy experienced and his mind just couldn't deal with it, completely understandable from what happened. At the end whether he did actually regress which I think he did personally or he pretended to regress so they would lobotomize him, he wanted to forget.
And I didn't Google this, so I could be wrong, but there are so many Inception, Cobb-Mal vibes exploding everywhere, I have to imagine that Christopher Nolan got a lot of inspiration from this.
“Well that filled in a lot of blanks”
Insert video here saying: honey you got another thing coming 😂
This movie is fantastic. The scene of them drinking out of a glass and the water levels (or glass existing) changes from cut to cut, I caught it in the theater but not enough to really tell what had happened- until the twist and I realized it was an intentional moment.
One of the best movies of all time. I absolutely love this movie so much
Oh yeauhhh TARAAA- ring theee belllllll 🎉🎉
The irony of the commentary of this video considering what's happening in the news right now.
There's another good movie that's based on another book by the author of Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane. It's not made by the same people but it's still a must see, it's called Gone Baby Gone and stars Casey Affleck, Ed Harris, Michelle Monaghan and Morgan Freeman.
If u notice, Whenever he wanted to smoke,Only Mark Ruffalo was able to light up his ciggerate causeonly officials can keep lighters and matchboxes etc,patients not allowed to keep the things which can harm himself and others in the island
I watch this today with my friends. When I got home. I watched your reaction video. Then I noticed everything now!! Every hint!!
Do you guys remember the conversation on the boar between chuck and teddy(Leo)? Chuck is really the psychiatrist. He was telling him about his past trauma like how counseling works. Teddy didn’t have his own cigarette & matches because he’s a patient. The first dream he had with the wife. The wife was vanishing with ashes because that’s the story in his delusions BUT I was puzzled when I saw her guts is oozing blood. Like how is that possible right if she got burned? So that could mean other thing happened to her which is her being shot by Andrew (Leo). I also noticed the dialogue of the Warden references the Lobotomy. Also when they were asking the staffs from the beginning the nurse looked at her side when she told about the doctor Sheehan. I think she looked at chuck (who is also doctor sheehan). Pretty cool clues.
This is one of my favorite films. Also this features my favorite performance from Leo even though he's outstanding in almost everything
Leonardo and water trauma all make sense now 😂 remember his line "I could've drowned" where's that quote from 😂
one of the films with a plot twist that made me watch the film twice to see the hint of the twist itself that was presented in the film, because I still remember when I watched it there were many scenes that felt odd and strange which made me feel that this was not a good film, it turned out to be a strange scene What I found was a sign that during the film there were delusions experienced by DiCaprio's character himself🤣🤣
One of my favorite horror/thriller films. Truly blew my mind at the end!
I watched it for the first time a few months ago and it became one of my favourites. One of the best looking horror/thriller ever.
Are you slow? The ending is crystal clear
They are.
I'd be curious to know how many people saw the ending coming just by watching the trailer. Because I sure as hell did. They showed that one scene in the trailer with the fire and I thought, "Oh, let me guess... He's crazy" I think even without seeing the trailer knowing tropes of certain films it's kinda hard not to see that coming.
I don’t think the ending is intended to be ambiguous at all. His last question about dying as a good man (Teddy) vs living as a monster (Andrew) proved that to me as it would be too much of a coincidence to ask that specific question at that exact moment if he thought he was still a U.S. Marshall. There’s other hints in that scene too that show his awareness of the situation:
1. He looks down in shame right after he asks the question, which he wouldn’t do if he was just wondering hypothetically about the other patients.
2. After pretending to be Teddy when Dr. Sheehan comes to sit with him, he is watching as he signals to the other Doctors that the experiment didn’t work. He would likely find his partner suspicious if he caught him trying to communicate with then people he thinks they are working to expose, but has no reaction.
3. Now that he saw the signal and knows the staff has been notified, he sees the orderlies coming towards him waiting to take him to be lobotomized. He gets up and walks towards them, pausing for just a moment before continuing, seemingly implying he knows where he is going and what is about to happen.
4. When Dr. Sheehan calls out to him “Teddy?” as he’s walking away, he doesn’t look back or respond to that name because he knows he’s really Andrew and not Teddy. He was fully aware and just didn’t want to live with that reality anymore.
Definitely one of my favorite movies and one that gets better the more you watch it as you pick up on all the little details and clues. Especially love the scene of the Warden (extra creepy since the character is played by Ted Levine aka Buffalo Bill) driving him back and telling him he has known him a long time and knows how violent he is, and even tries to provoke him into attacking him. Knowing what we know now, it’s clear he did that intentionally in an attempt to make him fail the experiment as he did not believe he deserved a second chance. He even smiles at the end and immediately signals to the orderlies to take him away after Dr. Sheehan lets them know that the experiment didn’t work.
This movie is a perfect example of non-mythos based Lovecraftian horror
I still want to know in the scene where they're interviewing the patients and she gets a glass of water. When she goes to drink it there is nothing in her hand. I wonder if that whole thing was a hallucination.
BRO, IM ACTUALLY HERE EARLY!!! LETSSS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
What do you not know ? It was all explained at the end. He was lucid and wanted to die. He was faking it.
you two are my favorite reaction pair combo - perfect balance of keen observation, insight, humor, and empathy. andrew "he'll save everyone of us" gordon is my mvp (is he a 1099 mercenary that takes these contract jobs on different YT channels? lol - i see him everywhere)
Watching this a second time, there are a TON of subtle hints. Look at 13:59 where Leo is getting way too aggressive. You can see Mark Ruffalo dart his eyes over to the guy like .. help?
15:14 the editor messed up. He removed the part with the glass
That or they just both didn’t catch it and it wasn’t worth putting in. Weird considering it’s one of the things most people catch on the first watch.
Quick glance at your thumbnail made me think you were doing a reaction video on “Shitter Island” 😄