The document summarizes the plot of the 2010 film Shutter Island, directed by Martin Scorsese. It discusses the main characters, including Teddy Daniels who is revealed to actually be patient Andrew Laeddis suffering from schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder. The film takes place in 1954 at Ashecliffe Hospital on Shutter Island and explores various psychological disorders and their treatments, ultimately revealing that the investigation was actually an experiment to treat Laeddis' conditions.

1. Movie: Shutter
island
Presented by :
• Muhammad Hamza (2012214)
• Hanium Iqbal (2012158)
• Bilal Rizvi (2012188)
• Laiba Hasan (2012162)
• Obaid ur Rehman (2012220)
• Bilal Qadir (1912391)

2. PLOT OVERVIEW
• Shutter Island is a 2010 American psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese, Based on Dennis
Lehan's 2003 novel of the same name. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Deputy U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy"
Daniels. Mark Ruffalo plays his partner and fellow deputy marshal.
• The film begins in 1954 with two U.S. Marshals, Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his partner Chuck
Aule (Mark Ruffalo) traveling to a psychiatric hospital on Shutter Island in Boston Harbor to investigate the
disappearance of one of the patients, Rachel Solando. Teddy believes his wife's killer is on the island .Teddy's
“partner” is a doctor at the hospital, and the whole investigation was an experiment to help treat his PTSD,
dissociative identity disorder and Schizophrenia.
• This film explores a variety of illnesses, psychological approaches and therapies.
Characters :
Teddy Daniels / Andrew Laeddis, Chuck Aule / Lester Sheehan, Dr.John Cawley , Dolores Chanal, Rachelo Solando.

3. TEDDY DANIELS
Teddy Daniels is someone Laeddis created so he could be good.
He wanted to believe that Andrew Laeddis was a different
person.
• Teddy Daniels claims to be an investigator at Ashecliffe
Mental Institution located on Shutter Island.He served in
World War II. He seems to be highly intelligent and healthy.
• He has delusions in which he believes patient number 67 is
being kept a secret. The delusions convince him that the
patient is Andrew Laeddis who killed his wife.
• Teddy feels like everyone in the institution is purposely
attempting to keep him as a patient.
• Teddy finally realizes that he is the lost patient, Andrew
Laeddis. The most violent patient on Shutter Island.

4. Andrew
Laeddis
• Andrew Laeddis is the main character of
this movie.
• He was actually the 67th patient of
Ashecliffe Hospital.
• Andrew killed his wife and just because
he couldn’t live with that, he made an
alternate personality of himself.
• Andrew Laeddis had Multiple personality
disorder and Schizophrenia.
• The hospital’s objective was to cure
Laeddis through cognitive behavioral
therapy.

5. Chuck Aule / Dr
Lester Sheehan
• Chuck was unknown to Teddy before the
movie begins, he claimed to be a US
Marshal.
• Chuck looks to be on Teddy's side and
has his back throughout the film, but he
is telling Dr Cawley everything Teddy has
revealed
• Chuck was a soft-spoken person which
helped him to gain trust of Teddy.
• Chuck's duty was to keep an eye on
Teddy throughout, and it turns out that
he is also his doctor.

6. Dr Cawley
• Dr. Cawley is Chief of Staff at
Shutter Island
• Secretly using threatening
experimental techniques on
patients
• master in assessing whether or
not a patient is psychotic
• emotionless

7. DOLORES CHANEL
• Dolores was Andrew's wife.
• She killed all 3 of their children and then asked
Andrew to set her free and then Andrew shot her.
• She was suffering from bipolar disorder.
• She appeared in Andrew's hallucinations.

8. Portrayal of Psychological Disorders in
Shutter Island
• Schizophrenia : A mental disorder where people lose touch with reality Distorted perception, thoughts, and Behavior.
• Inappropriate emotions and reactions
• Confusion
• Hallucinations and Delusions
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder:
• Anxiety disorder following a traumatic event
• Often reliving the event in dreams or thoughts
• Irritability, hyperawareness, and insomnia.
• Dissociative identity disorder
• feeling disconnected from one’s own thoughts, feelings, and body
• Depression and/or mood swings
• Anxiety
• Amnesia (memory loss or feeling a time distortion)
• Suicide risk — 70% of people with DID have attempted suicide.

9. Mental Health Treatment in Martin Scorsese’s
‘Shutter Island’.
• Psychotherapy
• -correct distorted thinking pattern
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• -to help the patient recognize and correct their thought patterns and behaviors that lead to their problematic
feelings.
• Antipsychotic Drugs
• -to treat delusions (Clozapine)

10. Conclusions
• Teddy is not a real person but a delusion created
by inmate Andrew Laeddis.
• The ending reveals that DiCaprio's character is a
patient himself.
• The reason behind him to be admitted here was
he murdered his wife (Michelle Williams) because
she went insane and killed their children.