Continuity mistake: When Teddy's kids are lying dead on the grass, the position of the girl's arms keeps changing between shots.
Shutter Island (2010)
Ending / spoiler
Daniels (DiCaprio) is Laeddis. His wife did not get killed by a fire. Laeddis/Daniels shot her after she drowned her three children (exactly the same story as Rachel Solando's story (she's a fake "prisoner")). There is nothing in the lighthouse and when Daniels/Laeddis gets there he suddenly remembers everything. Dr. Cawley (Ben Kingsley) tells him that it was a big role-play to test a new cure (Daniels/Laeddis thinks he's a US Marshal and he thinks he got to Shutter Island because he has to solve a case but in fact he's been there for over two years already). The only alternative is a frontal lobotomy, so the role-play is a last ditch effort. Chuck (Mark Ruffalo) is actually his therapist Dr. Sheehan. The treatment appears to stop his mind from creating his delusional reality, but the next day he turns Dr. Sheehan and says "We gotta get off this rock Chuck." Sheehan looks across the courtyard and shakes his head at Cawley, to let him know the treatment didn't work. As Laeddis is being led away for his lobotomy, he tells Sheehan "Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man?" suggesting that he possibly faked his relapse and wants to be lobotomized. The final shot is of the lighthouse where he will meet his fate.
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Dr. John Cawley: We don't know how she got out of her room. It's as if she evaporated, straight through the walls.
Trivia: During the ferry approach at the start, we are shown Shutter Island. In actuality this is a combination of Peddocks Island (the decaying brick buildings), Maine's Acadia National Park, Massachusetts' Medfield State Hospital, and Turner Hill Country Club's Rice Estate (located in Ipswich, MA), which were combined via CGI. Additionally, the mountainous region of the island (shown as the ferry approaches) was also CGI, and added in post-production.
Question: Why does Teddy have a cut with a plaster (band-aid) on his forehead throughout the film?
Answer: He was in an altercation with the patient in ward C prior to returning to ward C and talking with him again. It was an injury sustained in the past due to that.
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Answer: The bandage is a symbol indicating when and when not Teddy is caught in his delusions. When the bandage is on he is delusional, thinking he is the marshal finding out all the dark secrets of the facility. When the bandage is absent he is lucid and aware of his past crimes and his own delusions.
Wrong. It's on the whole movie until he takes a shower. The bandaid is off but yet that's the scene where he runs in the lighthouse thinking he's the Marshall still. Did you watch the movie at all?