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. Teddy, who is increasingly uncomfortable surrounded by the water around the island, begins to experience migraines and visions that flash back to his past – his experience at the liberation of Dachau in World War II, and memories of his wife Dolores Chanal, who died in a fire set by arsonist Andrew Laeddis.
Their only clue is a note found in her room that says: “The law of 4 – who is 67?” Paramount Shutter Island ending explained: What really happened?Īt the start of the movie, set in 1954, US Marshal Edward ‘Teddy’ Daniels (DiCaprio) and his new partner Chuck Aule (Ruffalo) travel by boat to the remote Ashecliffe Hospital to investigate the disappearance of a patient, Rachel Solando, who was being held there after drowning her three children.Īs their investigation begins, Teddy notices that the lead psychiatrist, Dr John Cawley (Ben Kingsley), is being less than co-operative, and he is told that Rachel’s doctor Lester Sheehan left the island to go on vacation straight after she went missing. 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.
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