Shutter Island Spoiler thread.

[cowiz]

Well, it wasn't his military service which drove him to insanity. It was the guilty he felt for the death of his wife and children. Which actually makes all those military flashbacks irrelevant.

If they did not include that, then they would not have had the scene where the German camp commandant had his face blown off - and you need blown off faces to keep a movie audience entertained.

"Of course he went crazy, you'd do the same if you'd experienced that . . ." (paraphrased). The Dachau scenes were supposed to be contributory to his insanity, part of the stressors that allowed him to go insane when he hit a crisis. It suggests that he wasn't so weak he'd go insane just because his entire family is dead.

But given he is insane and living ina fantasy world, how do we know any of that really happened?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Well, it wasn't his military service which drove him to insanity. It was the guilty he felt for the death of his wife and children. Which actually makes all those military flashbacks irrelevant.

If they did not include that, then they would not have had the scene where the German camp commandant had his face blown off - and you need blown off faces to keep a movie audience entertained.

"Of course he went crazy, you'd do the same if you'd experienced that . . ." (paraphrased). The Dachau scenes were supposed to be contributory to his insanity, part of the stressors that allowed him to go insane when he hit a crisis. It suggests that he wasn't so weak he'd go insane just because his entire family is dead.

But given he is insane and living ina fantasy world, how do we know any of that really happened?

Because they needed the extra stessors to set him off. "An unfortunate chain of events, including PTSD from the war . . . "

[AshtonBlack]

OK DiCap can act. It was stylish and as finely detailed as most Scorsese films. But well I was just a bit, well depressed by it all really. Left not giving a toss about the "hero" at all. Meh story is meh.