Capstone Project - Pt.5 (Fiction Book/Movie) (2 of 2)

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For the second half of this creation piece, I watched the movie Shutter Island, which was directed by Martin Scorsese and stars Leonardo DiCaprio. In the film, Leo plays a US Marshal named Teddy Daniels who is asked to investigate the disappearance of a patient at an asylum for the criminally insane titled Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. Soon, he begins to doubt everything and speculates that the hospital has brought him there for a sinister reason, and this is only made worse by a hurricane leaving him stranded and the doctor's being less than cooperative. Confusion gives way to improbable clarity as everything from Teddy's true past starts to reveal itself. I've used a word cloud to demonstrate the main points in the story creatively and tastefully.

Promotional Poster

As for questions I answered in my prezi for the fiction book, the story reveals much of the same things presented in my novel, it shows how an actual, normal person would feel if in the situation of dealing with a mentally ill people, or mental health services in general. For the time, it may have been normal, but now it is quite a problem, because now these people are not getting the help they deserve.

Once again, the fictional portrayal lends itself well to my research, further backing up what I've read regarding treatments (Lobotomies are a big plot point, as well as the introduction of psychotropic drugs) and the overall creepy feel that most get when talking about mental illness and asylums. This is a suspenseful movie and meant to be in a creepy location in order to pull that off properly so it is understandable for entertainment purposes.

One of the better known
psychotropic drugs

Facts are used much in the same way as well, though much more emphasis is put upon psychotropic drugs, which is apparently what is given to Teddy to make him more compliant with whatever the hospital plans to do with him, and it's stated how long it takes for such a thing to affect a person. This, of course, affects the plot of the movie quite a bit.





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Shutter Island. Dir. Martin Scorsese. Perf. Leonardo Dicaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley. Paramount Pictures, 2010. DVD.

For the second half of this creation piece, I watched the movie Shutter Island, which was directed by Martin Scorsese and stars Leonardo DiCaprio. In the film, Leo plays a US Marshal named Teddy Daniels who is asked to investigate the disappearance of a patient at an asylum for the criminally insane titled Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. Soon, he begins to doubt everything and speculates that the hospital has brought him there for a sinister reason, and this is only made worse by a hurricane leaving him stranded and the doctor's being less than cooperative. Confusion gives way to improbable clarity as everything from Teddy's true past starts to reveal itself. There is no bias represented in the movie and it is helpful to show how treatment changed from past years. It is obviously a movie, so some things are dramatized, but the core of the facts presented are the same.This movie fits well with my topic by showing how people felt about mental health during these years.