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Oh sorry! I got mixed up myself, it was so long ago I saw it. The main debate is whether he has really relapsed into insanity at the end or if there's a moment of awareness at the end and he's willingly getting himself lobotomized. I'll change my comment.
"However, before he falls into the clutches of the lobotomists, he utters a line that isn't in the book. "This place makes me wonder," he asks, "which would be worse – to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?"
For some, this is to be seen as no more than the rambling of a madman. Others, however, take it as meaning that Andrew's only faking his relapse."- The Guardian, 2010
Nope. Could be either shorter or longer.
I needed to answer this! The "country mile" was a term made when rural folk could be a little careless about making distance estimates. City people were always more concerned over exact property measurements and boundaries. There was always a city bureaucracy that thrived on delineating exactly who owned what and who was responsible for what and property taxes, etc... It sounds ridiculous in this age of GPS, but a "country mile" could be either longer or shorter than a real mile. That was the point of calling it a "country mile". Country people couldn't be bothered to measure the exact distances between two points that far away.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2010/jul/29/shutter-island-ending Yeah, the twist is the "whole point of the movie," at least it is the gimmick meant to make people watch it a second time. A Beautiful Mind is so much better, and so much closer to a true story.
Well, not exactly, kellie. The movie provides just enough ambiguous details to encourage watching it a second time. https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2010/jul/29/shutter-island-ending Not nearly as good as Momento (2000) or the Sixth Sense (1999), it's still one of the first "big budget" movies with a superstar actor to do this. Momento, and all other examples I can think of, were small budget films. If the plot was careful and thoughtful enough, it had the potential to be a masterpiece. As it is, there are just enough clues to encourage watching a second time, and many people did- I believe it was the top grossing movie of 2010. Unfortunately, there are plot holes in both the theories that the hero really is (Oops my goof! "a US Marshall...")EDIT: aware he is in treatment, or that he is back to being a completely delusional mental patient. Neither one makes sense, and perhaps watching it a second time is simply not worthwhile. But the film could've been better and more accurate in respect to mental illness. Delusions aren't a state where you are completely unaware of reality, or become overwhelmed with guilt when lucid. When a patient becomes aware of their delusion, they tend to (rightfully) blame their illness, not themselves. (I was a therapist for a few years and my ex-wife was briefly at the real life Medfield State hospital before it was closed, and where the film was shot) So, you're kind of wrong saying "he's just crazy. The end." The movie was purposefully made so that you can't be sure at the end. It's not so much derivative as just bad.
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