She says that she was committed to the hospital to stop her from going to the authorities after she discovered the doctors were experimenting with psychotropic medicines to induce mind control. Believing he has seen Chuck fall, Teddy heads towards him and instead discovers a cave with a woman inside who claims to be the real Rachel.

Next, Teddy interviews Rachel Solando, and then goes with Chuck across the rocks towards the lighthouse. The Marshals aren’t allowed in some areas of the hospital – including the lighthouse and Ward C – but when Teddy hears Rachel has returned, he breaks into Ward C and finds a patient named George Noyce who tells him patients are being lobotomised in the lighthouse, and also that everyone on the island is lying to Teddy as part of an elaborate plot. Teddy admits to Chuck that he took the case because he believes Laeddis is on the island, and he thinks Rachel is hiding there, too. There are major spoilers ahead, of course. Read on for a breakdown of the head-scratching thriller. So what exactly happens in Shutter Island, and what does the ending mean? It was obviously a complex jigsaw puzzle and it was surprising for both of us at times, and it really shocked us,” he said of his and Scorsese’s experience on set. Physically – yes, but emotionally more so. “This is the most challenging to date for me. “It’s a very difficult narrative to talk about in detail because we want the audience to have that virgin experience,” he explained. It soon becomes clear there is much more to the investigation than first appears, and at the time DiCaprio admitted (via The Guardian) that the twists in the movie made it difficult to talk about. Originally released in 2010, Martin Scorsese’s psychological thriller Shutter Island featured a shock ending and an ambiguous final scene that has spawned endless theories and debates about what it all means.īased on Dennis Lehane's best-selling novel of the same name – which has a more clear-cut ending for those who need a definitive answer – the movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo as Teddy and Chuck, a pair of US Marshals investigating the disappearance of a patient from the Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane on Shutter Island in Boston harbour. Note: The following article contains discussion of themes including suicide. What happened at the end of Shutter Island? Paramount

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