Shutter Island/Fridge


 * I was confused by the disorienting camera work, sudden jump-cuts and odd lighting choices. Such amateur things from Scorsese of all people? Halfway through I realized our perspective character was suffering from migraines. How do those manifest? Disorientation, noise and light sensitivity. When they were bad, the picture was bad. Realizing that really let me enjoy the movie, and it's about the only thing I'll forewarn about when I recommend the movie.
 * As a migraine sufferer, that bit of the movie ended up being the single most accurate portrayal of a mental phenomenon I've ever seen in any movie. The only significant difference between what is shown in the movie and what I experience, along with a portion of other migraine sufferers, is the lack of "auras". But migraines often present without them.
 * After spending most of the movie thinking to myself 'not another shaggy dog tale' I realised the movie was well aware of the shaggy dog nature of 'protagonist is dreaming/insane' stories, and contains at least one reference to it in the 'tag, you're it!' line.==Pistolero
 * The reason the nurses are so rude to Teddy is because.
 * When Teddy is talking to the guy in Ward C
 * The entire story is littered with clues that  Here are some of the more obvious ones:
 * The very first we see of Teddy is him throwing up on the ferry. He continues to suffer increasingly troubling symptoms throughout the film, including nightmares, hallucinations, and tremors, all of which seem to point to foul play on the part of the hospital staff, since they've been giving him pills.
 * When Teddy notes that the guards seem nervous, their escort remarks: "Today, Marshal, we all are." On the first viewing, he appears to be talking about the lost patient, but is actually referring to
 * When the head of security asks the Marshals to hand over their firearms, Chuck struggles to get his gun out of the holster, which seems an odd thing for a Federal Marshal to have trouble with.
 * Everything Dr. Cawley tells Teddy about Rachel Solando and what she did to get incarcerated at the hospital
 * It seems strange that the nurses are all so uncooperative and downright rude when Teddy interviewed them in a group, but when you realize that, it becomes quite brilliant story telling.
 * When Teddy moves on to interviewing individual patients, he notices that they talk as though they were coached, and all of them mysteriously shut down when he asks them about Andrew Laeddis. One of them even writes him a note telling him to run. The audience is led to believe that this is because something sinister is going on at the hospital,
 * With one of the patients, Teddy asks her whether she'd ever heard of an Andrew Laeddis. Her reaction appears oddly emotional, which at the time we assume to be because of her nervousness of spilling the beans,
 * Many of Teddy's memories of the war
 * Slightly more subtle, but on the first viewing Chuck's character comes across as crudely written/acted hardboiled law enforcement officer, complete with cussing and a "know nothing" attitude.
 * When Teddy asks a patient about Dr. Sheehan, she becomes nervous.
 * Teddy seems to trust Chuck awfully quickly, considering they only met on the ferry, even to the point where when questioned by an inmate he insists that he does.
 * When confronted by the first patient he and Chuck interviewed, Teddy starts rubbing his pencil into the paper of his notebook, creating a squeaking sound, annoying him more and more until the patient cracks..
 * One scene has Cawley refer to Rachel in past tense to describe her escape, and Teddy asks him why he does that. He responds with: "Why do you think?"
 * When one inmate Daniels is interviewing asks for a cup of water, Chuck complies.
 * Subtler: the first time Daniels dreams about his wife, she is burning, then bleeding from the stomach, then both.
 * Even more subtle: Teddy meets, or thinks he meets, the real Rachel Solando in the cave.
 * When Teddy has an episode, Crawley tries to offer him some medicine.
 * At the end of the movie it's implied that
 * It's hard to tell what was intentionally being implied, but I think it's definitely true that he had not forgotten but consciously chose.
 * When Dr. Cawley is introduced, he speaks about how he dislikes modern treatments of patients, of just giving them medication or lobotomizing them (seeing these as last resorts at best) and instead wants to cure them. First it comes off as sounding pompous, but is actually the whole reason he did everything we saw.