Overall, Shutter Island is a wonderful psychological thriller, packed with suspense and very difficult for the reader to put down. The landscape and the buildings in the movie seem to take on the roles of individual characters themselves.Īnother significant difference is that Di Caprio’s depiction of Laeddis elicits sympathy from the viewer while his book counterpart is much more malevolent in nature. Despite this difference, the film nonetheless maintains the eeriness that Lehane so brilliantly set up through his vivid descriptions in the novel. When reading the book, one is led to imagine a fairly small island, which makes the reader claustrophobic. One of the most noticeable differences between the two versions is that the institute and, in fact, the island itself seem a lot larger and imposing in the movie.
It’s just one moment of sanity mixed in the midst of all the other delusions.” In an interview, Lehane was asked for his thoughts on the altered ending, and said, “I would say that line, which comes across as a question, he asks it sort of rhetorically …personally, I think he has a momentary flash. While the rest of the plot plays out similarly, in the end, as Laeddis sits with his doctor (who is revealed to be Chuck), he asks the question “Would you rather live as a monster, or die as a hero?” which makes the audience wonder if he is pretending to relapse as he longs for the blissful ignorance that a lobotomy will bring. The film ending, however, is much more ambiguous. In the final scene, as Laeddis sits with his doctor, it becomes clear that he has once again lapsed into his Daniels persona, essentially sentencing himself to a lobotomy. In fact, the entire investigation was an elaborate ruse, designed to rattle Laeddis to the extent that he puts his Daniels persona to rest.
The book concludes with the revelation that Teddy Daniels is actually an alternate persona constructed by a Shutter Island inmate named Andrew Laeddis.
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