Shutter Island Movie Review
I’ve heard about this Shutter Island movie for several years thinking I wonder what all the hype is about this movie?
Finally, I watched the movie and frankly I thought I would have nothing useful to say about it. It felt like my mind just got screwed to the point of insanity. It was like Shutter Island took my brain and scrambled it like an egg. Or a pineapple upside down cake that someone was trying to make right side up, huh? Yeah, so I thought this movie was done and over with.
Suddenly, the next morning I was thinking about this movie and then it clicked! This movie was trying to show us what can happen to a mind and heart that goes through extreme trauma or just something so unbearable that a person’s heart and mind cannot handle the burden of pain it’s left with.
We are made to when going through something so heartbreaking to find a way to cope and survive it. Whether it’s getting a bunch of pets, filling the house with beautiful plants, clinging on to a person or job, just fill our minds with so much that we don’t have time to think and feel anymore.
Many times, it can lead to denial of what happened to us. We just want to rewrite that scenario all over again that way that we feel more comfortable from it mentally and emotionally. Making it into a different story with different characters and perhaps we are the hero trying to find the villain that causes this to happen to began with.
While it’s good to find ways to cope and deal with the aftermath of the trauma it can be quite damaging to ourselves and others. When the truth becomes hidden in a fantasy world we invented to cope is when it becomes so dangerous.
If we cannot be honest with ourselves and face reality we will never truly heal. Leaving a wound to fester and become worse can cause an infection. A person’s mind has become so broken that only in their dreams is when they actually face reality.
Loved ones and psychiatrists can only do so much to convince a person that they are in a world of denial not holding on to anything real. Just hoping that logic and reasoning will help this person come back to their senses and return to reality so they can finally heal.
Healing is the only path guaranteed to keep oneself safe from themself and from hurting others. If the person realizes they aren’t strong enough to keep these memories as memories in the past then the best options may have to become more drastic to keep them safe and those around them.
A broken mind and heart are worse than any other disability and illness. It’s a place that’s too faraway to reach with the best medicines, years of therapy, and even with loving patience. Sometimes what’s broken remains broken.
April 19, 2024
