Shutter Island Page #3

Synopsis: It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy's shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Director(s): Martin Scorsese
Production: Paramount Studios
  9 wins & 62 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.1
Metacritic:
63
Rotten Tomatoes:
68%
R
Year:
2010
138 min
$125,001,000
Website
27,604 Views


never quit anything before.

We haven't heared the truth once yet Chuck

Rachel Solando did not slipped out of

a locked room barefoot without any help.

I'm beginning to think alot of help

Maybe Cawley sitting up in his mansion

right now,

rethinking his whole attitudes

- Maybe in the morning...

- You're bluffing?

I didn't said that.

I found a whole stock of these, Teddy.

Jesus, are you ever sober anymore?

I killed alot of people in the war.

Is that why you drink?

Are you real?

No.

She's still here.

Who?

Rachel?

she never left.

Remember when we stayed at the cabin

by the lake ?

we were so happy

She's here.

You can't leave

I'm not gonna leave.

I love you so much.

- I am the bones in a box, Teddy.

- No.

I am

You have to wake up.

I won't go.

You're here.

I'm not.

You have to face that.

But she is

and so is he

Who?

Laeddis.

I have to go.

No! please... don't

-Just a little longer.

- Oh, Teddy ...

Let me go.

I can not.

Ain't gonna be no ferry in this sh*t

Doctor.

Doctor, Doctor.

we need to interview the patients who

were in Rachel's group therapy that night

I thought your investigation was finished?

It's not like we can take the ferry

and was Rachel recieving any

other treatment for her illnesses?

Do you know what the state of

mental health field in these days, gentelmen?

No. We are not doctors.

War.

The old schools believes in

surgical interventions

Psychosurgery.

The procedures are that the orbital lobotomy.

Some say that patientsi are reasonable,

Other essential say become zombies.

- And the new school?

- Psycho pharmacology.

A new drug has just been approved

of autorities.

That relaxes psychotic patients

some would say tames then

- And which school are you in, Doc?

- I?

I have this radical idea that if you treat a

patient with respect

and listen to him

Trying to understand.

you just might reach him.

- These pacients?

- My point is.

What should be the last resort,

becomes the first response.

Give them a pill and put them in a corner,

and it all goes away.

Rachel Solando was a on a combination of drugs

meant to keep her from becoming violent

and it was only intermittently effective

The greatest obstacle to her recovery was

her refusal to face what she had done

"was."

Is there a reason why you refer to

your patint in the past tense,Doctor?

Look outside, marshall.

Why do you think?

Next one is Peter Breen. Assaulted

his father's nurse with a brocken glass.

Nurse survived, but

her face permaanently disfigured

i can't wait.

She smiles at me.

She was so sweet

But ... I could read in his eyes.

she liked to be naked.

Liked to suck cock

All right, Mr Breen.

And asked me if she can have

a glass of water

Alone in the kitchen?

like that's no big deal?

- Why was that a big deal?

- It was obvious.

She wanted me to pull out my thing so she

could laugh at it

Mr Breen,

we need to ask you some questions, okay?

When I cut her she screamed

But ...

She scared me.

What did she expect?

Interesting.

But we are here to talk

Rachel Solando, OK?

Rachel Solando ...

Did you know she had drown her own kids?

She drowned her kids

This is a sick f***ing world

we live in. i'll tell you that ...

They should be gassed

all of them... the retards, killers

the n*ggers, kill your own kids?

gas the b*tch

Please.. stop that?

- A nurse?

- Please. Stop that.

a nurse maybe. maybe she had kids.

A husband ...

trying to make ends meet,

to have a normal life ...

assisting your father................

You tore her face off, didn't you

Congratulations, no more normal

for her, not ever again

Do you know what she was afraid of?

You.

Could you stop that, please?

Stop that!

Please ... stops!

- You know a patient by the name Andrew Laeddis?

- No! No!

I want to go back.

I'll never get out of here.

I'm not sure I should

Excuse me for saying it,

- Miss Kearns ...

- God.

Mrs. Kearns.

But you seem ...

quite normal, ...

I mean in comparison

with the other patients here

Well, I have my dark days

I suppose everyone does

Differents is that most people don't kill

their husbands with an axe

Although personally I think if a

man beats you and f***

half the women he sees

and no one will help you

axing him isn't the least understandable

thing you can do

Maybe you shouldn't get out.

And what would i do if I did?

I don't know the world anymore.

They say there are

bombs that can turn whole

cities to ash

And what do they call "television" ...

voices and faces coming from a box

I hear enough voices already

What can you tell us about rachel?

No much, she... she keep to herself

She believes her kids were alive

She thought she was still living

in Berkshire and we were all neighbours

- milkman, postman

- deliveryman,

Dr Sheehan was there that night?

Yes.

He talked about anger.

Tell me about him ...

What's he like?

I think e. ..

Ok... nice

Not hard on the eyes

just my mother would say

Did he ever come passing you?

No.

No, Dr. Sheehan is a good doctor, he wouldn't ...

Could I have a glass of water, please?

No problem.

Thank you, marshall.

I have just one more question

Mrs. Kearns.

Did you ever meet a patient

named Andrew Laeddis?

No.

Never heard of him.

She was coached

He used the same words as

Cawley's and the nurse.

- It's like she'd been told exactly what to say.

- Who is Andrew Laeddis?

You asked every one of those patients

about him. Who's he?

What the hell, boss, I'm your partner

for the God's sake!

We just met, Chuck.

There are the job long.

You got a duty, a career

and what i'm doing

not exactly by the book.

I don't give a damn about the book, boss

But I need to know what the hell is going on

When this case came over the wires,

- I requested it. Specifically, do you understand?

- Why?

Andrew Laeddis,

was the maintenance man in thr apartment

building where my wife and I lived

Okay.

He was also a firebug.

Andrew Laeddis lit the match,

that caused the fire that killed my wife.

Open the!

What happened with Laeddis?

got away.

Laeddis got away and disappeared.

About a year ago I opened the

newspaper and there he is.

He's an ugly son of a b*tch.

He had a new scar in the right temple

down to his left lip.

Eyes different colors.

not a type of face you forget.

He'd burned a schoolhouse. Killed 2 people.

He said voices told him to do that.

First he was sent to prison

and then he was transferred here.

- Then what?

- Then, nothing.

He vanished like he never existed

no records forever

I'm sure he's not in ward B

that leaves ward C.

Or he could be dead.

So could Rachel Solando.

Lots of places to hide a body here

only one place where

no one really knows

the patient , Bridget Kearne,

when she sent me for water,

she said something back to you, didn't she?

No.

Come on boss!

She wrote it.

. Run ..

Boss!

We must get inside. It's turning

into f***ing Kansas out here...

All right. Now.

Let's go!

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Laeta Kalogridis

Laeta Elizabeth Kalogridis is an American screenwriter and an executive producer. She has written scripts for Alexander, Night Watch, Pathfinder and Shutter Island. more…

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