Shutter Island-Spoiler Warning

[McNinja]

Once again-Spoiler Warning- If you have not seen Shutter Island, and plan to, don't read this. At all. Just find a different thread. Now.

This isn't a review or anything, i just wanted to discuss the ending. Or rather,

Spoiler: The Twist

Which is, actually nothing. It pissed be off almost as much as Harry Potter 6. Don't get me wrong, Shutter Island is a good movie, but the ending is so ball-bustingly stupid and predictable that I myself almost went insane because of it. The twist is that the guy is actually insane. No Conspiracy, no guy buring the house and killing his wife, no nothing. He killed his wife and created a new personality because he couldn't deal with it. After it was revealed, I just sat there, thinking "no, this can't possibly be it." I even checked the time to see if this was really the ending. The movie would have been awesome if instead of a just a silly reveal they had also cut to the supposed chamber in the lighthouse, and shown his (Ted's) partner, revealing that he in fact, was not crazy. That would have been cool. But no. That would have been to simple.

My friend and I spent another half hour making insanity jokes like "am I your doctor? What a twist!" or "The cake wasn't really a lie! What a twist!" and even "the ending was so predictable, I created another personality to deal with it!"

I mean I watched the MovieBob review, and he remarked about the twist at the end. I think he might have seen a different movie. I thought there would be some epic twist that would blow the Robot Chicken "what a twist" guy's mind.

Who else has seen Shutter Island, and what was your take on the twist ending? Also, one last time- Spoiler Warning!

 

[white_salad]

It seemed very predictable. I was half expecting him to wake up and be like " oh man, luckily it was all a dream...OR WAS IT!!! DUN DUN DUUUUUUN"

 

[McNinja]

It seemed very predictable. I was half expecting him to wake up and be like " oh man, luckily it was all a dream...OR WAS IT!!! DUN DUN DUUUUUUN"

Actually, what if he woke up inside the experimentation chamber with chuck right next to him? Tha would have been cool. Although I kinda already said that. But your idea made it cooler.

 

[Julianking93]

It was just funny to me how the trailers say "The most shocking ending in years!!!" but when I saw the trailer, I could tell you how it ends.

Its pretty obvious that Leo's the crazy one just from looking at the preview.

 

[The Wooster]

First thing I said to my girlfriend when the film was over.
"I called it"
First thing she said to me.
"So did everyone else with a functioning frontal lobe"

 

[ultrachicken]

It was disappointing, to say the least.
Somehow my family didn't see the twist coming.

 

[Sprogus]

I really don't know what people expect when it comes to twist endings any more. I mean if you think about it there isn't really a twist ending that hasn't been done. Regarding Shutter Island

Spoiler

I prefer to think that the twist is right at the end just before the credits when Ted is talking to Leo's character (can't think of his name) and he says something like "I can either live as a monster or die as a hero" and you have to think, is he insane still or does he actually know what he is doing.

 

[ovset]

The trailer kind of pissed me off because it laid out all the plot elements that the book only subtly hints at throughout, allowing the ending to blindside you like a traffic accident. So yes, I could see why most people think you'd have to be retarded to not see it coming.

Don't get me wrong, I loved the film, but it just goes to show what marketing can do to a movie.

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

I really don't know what people expect when it comes to twist endings any more. I mean if you think about it there isn't really a twist ending that hasn't been done. Regarding Shutter Island

Spoiler

I prefer to think that the twist is right at the end just before the credits when Ted is talking to Leo's character (can't think of his name) and he says something like "I can either live as a monster or die as a hero" and you have to think, is he insane still or does he actually know what he is doing.

Spoiler

By the end I don't think he's a rational man pretending to be insane. He doesn't have anything left, he doesn't have a reason to pull himself together, so he doesn't have the will to fight his delusion. What we see in the end is just a glimmer of his guilty sanity breaking through. I think it's just the way his condition's always worked: He's not aware, but on a deeper level he is. It's the same thing that happened when the other inmate called him by his real name. That's how I read it, at least.

I saw the movie the night before opening day (my dad got preview tickets from the paper) and I walked in with no expectations. I thought Scorsese did an excellent job with the whole movie. I thought the dream sequence, in particular, was fantastic - and I'm kind to movies that layer narratives, double meanings, and dramatic irony that the audience isn't aware of.

It's a good film by a fantastic director.

 

[Sprogus]

I really don't know what people expect when it comes to twist endings any more. I mean if you think about it there isn't really a twist ending that hasn't been done. Regarding Shutter Island

Spoiler

I prefer to think that the twist is right at the end just before the credits when Ted is talking to Leo's character (can't think of his name) and he says something like "I can either live as a monster or die as a hero" and you have to think, is he insane still or does he actually know what he is doing.

Spoiler

By the end I don't think he's a rational man pretending to be insane. He doesn't have anything left, he doesn't have a reason to pull himself together, so he doesn't have the will to fight his delusion. What we see in the end is just a glimmer of his guilty sanity breaking through. I think it's just the way his condition's always worked: He's not aware, but on a deeper level he is. It's the same thing that happened when the other inmate called him by his real name. That's how I read it, at least.

I saw the movie the night before opening day (my dad got preview tickets from the paper) and I walked in with no expectations. I thought Scorsese did an excellent job with the whole movie. I thought the dream sequence, in particular, was fantastic - and I'm kind to movies that layer narratives, double meanings, and dramatic irony that the audience isn't aware of.

It's a good film by a fantastic director.

That's actually a pretty good explanation. And I also thought the movie was good.

 

[CommyGingerbreadMan]

He's not insane by the end. Remember when the Doctor asks him where's all the surgery stuff? At the end one of the white coats has an Ice pick, obviously they did something there. I think at the end he meant he knew there was nothing he could do that wasn't lying and pretending to be that crazy guy. He was hyped up on drugs for must of the movie. Whose to say the kids in the pictures weren't just pictures of nothing, and he saw random children. I was surprised, I expected him to actually be crazy, but he wasn't, or he was. It was for you to decide, to go as far and say you expected it? Let's be fair here. NO movie nowadays doesn't have some twist in it. It's why you see the movie. From the trailers you can tell if the movie has a good or bad ending. They need something to keep us coming.

 

[Killjoi]

Isn't the last line in the movie the real twist ? It's certainly food for thought about Ted's mental state at the end.

Spoiler

I think he didn't lose it. He wanted it all to end because he couldn't go on knowing he killed his wife and his children(indirectly).