Blog Post #7

One piece of art that I have seen recently was the movie, "Shutter Island".  The plot of this movie is that it follows the investigation of a missing person in a mental asylum, on Shutter Island.  This island is off the coast of Boston.  Teddy Daniels is the main detective, and he is with his newly assigned partner, Chuck Aule. Both of these characters are federal marshals.  Once they arrive, Teddy notices something suspicious about the way the guards have looked at him, and treated both him and his partner.  It culminates with he and Aule having to give up their guns, but Daniels shakes it off as nothing.  As he continues to search the island, Teddy fines clues that may be leading to a cover up regarding the patient, and becomes suspicious of the head doctor on the island, and starts to consider him as the prime suspect.  During the movie though, through all of the investigating, Teddy continually suffers through migraines, and night terrors that relates to the death of his first wife, Dolores.  In one of the rooms, he finds a note that says "67" on it.  He comes to realize that there is one less patient then the head doctor originally had told him.  Then one night as he is searching through the woods, his partner Chuck Aule, goes missing.  This leads him to a light house where the patients have continually told him that they are killing other patients up there.  Once up there, an entire mystery unravels that changes the course of the story and changes the viewers perception of the film.  Overall, I enjoyed this movie, mainly because it keeps you guessing the entire time, and the ending does a complete 180 of the plot.  I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys mystery and suspense because that is what this movie is about.  People who enjoy this type of genre will enjoy "Shutter Island".  Here is a link to the trailer:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1130884/