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[[File:shutter-island-poster_1777.jpg|thumb|350px|''We gotta get off this rock, Chuck.'']]
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But of course, all is not as it seems...
The novel was adapted into a movie by [[Martin Scorsese]] in 2010, with [[Leonardo
Perhaps one of the most heavily [[Rule of Symbolism|symbolic]] novels/films in years, to the extent that [[Mind Screw|it will screw with your mind HARD]].
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* [[Arc Words]]: "Why you all wet, Baby?"
* [[All Germans Are Nazis]]: Teddy automatically assumes that the German doctor working in the asylum is some kind of [[Mad Scientist|Josef Mengele]], continuing his experiments on American soil.
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* [[Framing Device]]: The novel is presented as Dr. Sheehan's desire to set the record straight at last.
* [[Go Among Mad People]]
* [[
* [[Lighthouse Point]]: The lighthouse at the end of the island, that the staff says contains the septic system, but others say contains a lobotomy lab. {{spoiler|It's actually an office.}}
* [[Locked Room Mystery]]: How did Rachel Solando escape? "It's as if she evaporated straight through the walls."
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* [[The Precious Precious Car]]: Teddy blows up Dr. Crawley's beloved car in order to create a diversion.
* [[Room 101]]: Teddy assumes the lighthouse is one.
* [[Shell
* [[The Shrink]]: In Teddy's eyes, the psychiatrists are the evil version of this trope. {{spoiler|In reality, they are only trying to help him overcome his madness.}}
* [[Through the Eyes of Madness]]: {{spoiler|Teddy Daniels}}.
* [[Tomato in
* [[Tomato Surprise]]: The missing Dr. Sheehan turns out to be {{spoiler|Teddy's new partner, Chuck Aule}}.
* [[Twist Ending]]: One that would make [[M. Night Shyamalan]] proud.
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: {{spoiler|Teddy Daniels}}.
* [[US Marshal]]
* [[Was It All a Lie?]]: And a decidedly cruel, sad version of it, because for once {{spoiler|"[[The Mole]]" was actually doing it for the protagonist's own good}}.
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'''{{spoiler|Teddy/Andrew}}''': You were my friend. I trusted you ... You were my friend, {{spoiler|Chuck}}. Oh, I'm sorry, {{spoiler|Lester}}. }}
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* [[Anti
* [[Big No]]: DiCaprio's character gets a pretty good one.
* [[Blast Out]]
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** In addition, {{spoiler|Teddy told his partner that his wife was killed by smoke from a fire. A constant habit of his is smoking. Another arguable point, as it is the fifties, and smoking was encouraged at the time.}}
*** {{spoiler|Smoke from a fire could have also been refering to the smoke from his gun, as shown when he hullucinates shooting it. Some films from that time period have similar lines}}
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Most assuredly not always present, but still packs a wallop at {{spoiler|the ending, with the "peaceful" shot of the lighthouse. The [[Here We Go Again|previous scene]] makes clear [[Body Horror|what will happen to Laeddis there]].}}
* [[Herr Doctor]]: Played with. Dr. Naehring is undeniably German (although [[Fake Nationality|played by a legendary Swede]]), but his accent is much lighter than required by the trope.
* [[Hey,
** [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (
*** He used to be a [[The Prophecy (
*** And he shot [[House (TV series)|Dr. House]].
*** And he [[The Curious Case of Benjamin Button|made a clock that runs backwards]].
** <s> [[The Silence of the Lambs|Buffalo Bill]] </s> <s> [[Justice League (animation)|Sinestro]] </s> [[Monk|Captain Stottlemeyer sans mustache]] is also the very disturbing Warden.
* [[Homage]]: The film is absolutely crawling with them, in particular [[Alfred Hitchcock]]/Vertigo.
** The crooked angles in the lighthouse are a homage to ''[[
** Key parts of the plot and overall theme may be an homage to ''[[
* [["I Know You
* [[I Know You Know I Know]]: A somewhat meta-example; any sufficiently [[Genre Savvy]] viewer should be able to spot the obvious twist a mile away, but the way the film plays out makes one constantly question whether or not that's just what the filmmakers want you to expect.
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Brutally Averted. Along with the dead children at Dachau, Rachael Solando killed her three children by drowning them {{spoiler|and by extension, so did Dolores}}.
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* [[Nietzsche Wannabe]]: The Warden.
** Although {{spoiler|considering that by the point in the movie where we first meet the warden was when Andrew was coming off the Chlorazapine and [[Unreliable Narrator|obviously hallucinating]], we don't really know if that conversation actually happened or was [[Through the Eyes of Madness|simply a part of Andrew's delusion]].}}
* [[One Dialogue, Two Conversations]]: {{spoiler|As we later learn, <s>Daniels's</s> Laeddis' delusions led him to completely misunderstand what George Noyce was talking about.}}
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As opposed to:
{{spoiler|"It's about you. And, Laeddis, it's always been about you", implying that Daniels IS Laeddis and everything was focused around HIM}} }}
* [[One
** In the one scene in which he has any dialogue, Ted Levine delivers a gripping [[Character Filibuster]] on how violence is a gift from God {{spoiler|(which arguably doubles as some variant of [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] to Teddy/Andrew about what the warden sees as the inevitability of his lobotomization).}}.
* [[Significant Anagram]]: {{spoiler|Four of them, hence the "Rule of Four." Edward Daniels/Andrew Laeddis, and Rachel Solando/Dolores Chanal.}}
* [[Tentative Light]] in the movie.
* {{spoiler|[[The Ending Changes Everything]]}}
* [[There Are No Therapists]]: {{spoiler|Completely, utterly inverted. The whole island is orchestrating a therapy session to play along with the main character's delusions to see if he can resolve his own internal conflicts without help. They are trying to simulate a [[There Are No Therapists]] scenario.}}
* [[Tomato in
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: {{spoiler|Why do we keep spoiling Daniels's insanity, guys?}}
* [[Twist Ending]]: A truly nasty one, too.
* [[Weapon Stomp]]: Done very nastily. {{spoiler|The nazi reaching for the gun had blown his cheek off in a suicide attempt and was lying on the floor bleeding out. He reached for his dropped gun to try again, only to have the protagonist step on it and drag it away.)}}
* [[Wham! Line]]: {{spoiler|"You don't have a partner, Daniels. You came alone."}}
** {{spoiler|"Your name is Andrew Laeddis. The sixty-seventh patient at Ashecliffe? He's you, Andrew."}}
** {{spoiler|"Honey?... Where are the kids?" "They're at school." "...It's Saturday. School's not open on Saturday." '''"My school is."'''}}
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