Tag: Movie Review

 Can you tell whether what you remember is true or not? Can you tell where what you believe is true or not. Can you tell whether you are in dream or in real?

U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio plays) was investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane. He believed that the hospital had dreadful secrets. Teddy was also investigating Andrew Laeddis (Teddy believes he killed Teddy’s wife) who vanished from this hospital without trace.

Story started with his new partner Chuck on the ship which is going to go to the hospital. They started investigating at the hospital, but there is a lot of regulation and unreasonable things, even he is U.S. Marshal, they could access all information they want. The lead psychiatrist, Dr. John Cawley, refuses to hand over records of the hospital staff; murderess’s doctor, Dr. Sheehan, had left on vacation after murderess’s disappearance. They hide something from them? After few days’s investigating at the hospital, he started to believe that the hospital is for performing questionable experiments on its patients, and sends the incurable to the lighthouse to be lobotomized. He started behaving so insanely against doctors, staff, and patients. Finally he got to the lighthouse, but there is no clue of experiment on its patients. Two Dr. was there, they told him ‘You are Andrew Leaddis’.

 The truth is the following. Teddy is Andrew Laeddis. Sadly, his wife murdered their 3 children by making them drawn when he was out. He found the incident, he killed his wife. I could not accept his real world. So, he create imaginary person “U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels” and the imaginary story of Andrew Leaddis.

Finally, Dr. Cawley presumably takes this as a sign of regression and regretfully decides to have Laeddis lobotomized. Before he is taken away, Laeddis asks Dr. Sheehan, “Which would be worse? To live as a monster, or die as a good man?”, and then calmly leaves with the orderlies. Dr. Sheehan is left uncertain whether or not Laeddis has truly relapsed, or simply prefers lobotomy to having to live with his guilt and sorrow.

I actually am not sure that I could understand this movie correctly, but let me write movie review. This movie is really exciting. Story is complex but you will be obsessed with.

http://www.shutterisland.com/#/home

This movie is the story of a prison break, which is caused by a smart banker who is suspect for having killed his wife. The movie starts from the scene when the main character called Andy (Tom Hanks plays) is in a drunken state. While he was setting up the gunfire, his wife was having sex with famous professional golfer. He knew that his wife had a secret love affair with the golfer, decided to kill them both. But he couldn’t. He threw the gun away in river and drove to home.  However, wife and golfer were killed at that night with gun.

In the court, Andy was asked why he killed his wife. Because the motivation is clear and there is no alibi, he insisted he did not but no one believed him. Unfortunately, the police could not find the gun that was used for murder. The prosecutor said to him “Is it convenient for you, isn’t it?” He said with angrily “Because I am not a killer, this is not convenient for me.”

That’s why he came Shawshank prison.

He had been in the Shawshank for 20 years. In the prison, he was raped by a male prisoner, and worked for the officers and the governor of the prison to help them made papers for tax illegally, built library and dug a hole which is large enough to escape from prison.

One day, young thief came to the Shawshank. He knew the truth and the killer, so Andy asked the governor to reexamine his case. But his offer was rejected and, the young thief was killed because Andy was useful and also has many secrets of the governor and the officer of the prison.

So, he decided to escape from Shawshank using the hole.

He found the resort periphery of the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Interestingly, the money that he spent there was the money he made at Shawshank prison during serving for the offices and the governor as imaginary person, who is only existing in paper.

What I learned from this movie is the importance of enduring work throughout habits.