百年50部英文燒腦電影賞析:[35]Shutter Island 禁閉島

In 1954, two U.S. Marshals, Edward “Teddy” Daniels（Leonardo Dicaprio）and his new partner, Chuck Aule（Mark Ruffalo）, travel to the Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane on Shutter Island located in Boston Harbor, as part of an investigation on the disappearance of patient Rachel Solando（Emily Mortimer）, incarcerated for drowning her three children. Shortly after arrival, a storm prevents their return to the mainland for several days. Daniels finds the staff confrontational: the lead psychiatrist, Dr. John Cawley（Ben Kingsley）, refuses to hand over records of the hospital staff; Solando's doctor, Dr. Sheehan, had left on vacation after her disappearance, and they are barred from searching Ward C and told that the lighthouse on the island has already been searched.
Daniels starts having migraine headaches, waking visions of his involvement in the Dachau massacre, and disturbing dreams of his wife, Dolores Chanal（Michelle Williams）, who was killed in a fire set by arsonist Andrew Laeddis（Elias Koteas）. In one dream, Chanal tells Daniels that Solando is still on the island, as is Laeddis. Daniels later explains to Aule that locating Laeddis was an ulterior motive for taking the case.
As Daniels and Aule continue their investigation, they find that Solando has been found by the staff with no explanation. With neither the staff nor patients helping, Daniels decides to break into Ward C, and eventually meets George Noyce（Jackie Earle Haley）, another patient. Noyce warns Daniels that Ashecliffe is performing questionable experiments on its patients, and sends the incurable to the lighthouse to be lobotomized. As Daniels leaves, Noyce asserts that everyone on the island, including Aule, is playing in a game designed for Daniels. Daniels regroups with Aule and they make their way to the lighthouse, but as they attempt to traverse the cliffs, they become separated. Daniels finds a woman hiding in a cave, claiming to be the real Rachel Solando（Patricia Clarkson）. The woman asserts she was a former psychiatrist at Ashecliffe until she discovered the experiments with psychotropic medication in an attempt to develop mind control techniques. When she attempted to alert the authorities, she was committed as a patient. Leaving the woman, Daniels finds no sign of Aule, and returns to the hospital. Dr. Cawley claims that Daniels arrived alone, with no evidence of Aule ever being there.
Determined but confused, Daniels returns to the lighthouse and breaks into it. At the top, he finds Dr. Cawley waiting for him. Cawley explains that “Daniels” is really Andrew Laeddis, incarcerated after killing his wife after she drowned their children. According to Dr. Cawley, the events of the past several days have been designed to break Laeddis' conspiracy-laden insanity by allowing him to play out the role of Daniels, an anagram of his name. The hospital staff, including Dr. Sheehan posing as Aule, were part of the test, and the migraines that Laeddis suffered were withdrawal symptoms from his medication. The memory of killing his wife briefly returns to Laeddis, and he passes out.
Laeddis awakes in the hospital, under watch of Dr. Cawley and Sheehan. When questioned, Laeddis can provide the details of how he killed his wife, which satisfies the doctors as a sign of progression; Dr. Cawley notes that they had achieved this state nine months before but Laeddis had quickly regressed. The doctor further warns that this will be Laeddis' last chance. Some time later, Laeddis relaxes on the hospital grounds with Dr. Sheehan, and begins calling him “Chuck” and saying they need to expose the conspiracy of Ashecliffe to the world. Recognizing this as a sign of regression, Dr. Cawley orders Laeddis to the lighthouse to be lobotomized; as he is taken away, Laeddis asks Dr. Sheehan, “Which would be worse? To live as a monster, or die as a good man?”, and then calmly leaves with the orderlies.
故事發(fā)生在1954年，兩名美國警官，“泰迪”愛德華·丹尼爾斯（萊昂納多·迪卡普里奧飾）和他的新搭檔恰克·奧力（馬克·魯弗洛飾），來到波士頓港禁閉島上的一座精神病犯人醫(yī)院——阿西克里夫醫(yī)院，調查一起精神病人瑞秋·索蘭度（艾米莉·莫迪默飾）的離奇失蹤案。索蘭度進院是因為親手溺死了自己的三個孩子。在兩名警官到達后不久，暴風雨來襲，切斷了回去的路，他們被困在禁閉島數天。丹尼爾斯發(fā)現這個醫(yī)院的工作人員很不配合調查工作，首席精神病專家約翰·考利（本·金斯利飾）醫(yī)生拒絕出示這家醫(yī)院的工作人員名單，索蘭度的主治醫(yī)生希恩醫(yī)生竟在她失蹤后外出度假了，醫(yī)院還禁止他們進入C區(qū)病房，并稱院方已經在孤島上的燈塔那兒搜尋過索蘭度了。
這時丹尼爾斯的偏頭疼開始發(fā)作，產生了置身于達豪集中營的幻覺，又夢到他在一場大火中死去的妻子德洛莉斯·香奈兒（米歇爾·威廉姆斯飾），那場火災的縱火犯叫安德魯·雷迪斯（伊利亞斯·科泰斯飾），夢中香奈兒告訴他索蘭度和雷迪斯都還在這座島上。清醒后丹尼爾斯告訴拍檔奧力，他接手這起案子的另一目的是尋找雷迪斯。
丹尼爾斯和奧力繼續(xù)調查此案，他們發(fā)現索蘭度已經被工作人員找到，沒有其他任何解釋。在既沒有工作人員也沒有病人幫助的情況下，丹尼爾斯決定只身前往C區(qū)病房一探究竟，在那里，他遇到病人喬治·諾斯（杰基·厄爾·哈利飾），諾斯警告他阿西克里夫精神病院正在對病人進行具有爭議的手術實驗，他們會在燈塔為無法醫(yī)治的病人施行腦葉切開術。丹尼爾斯正要離開，諾斯又說島上包括奧力在內的所有人都是一伙的，給丹尼爾斯設計了一個騙局。 隨后丹尼爾斯與奧力會合，一起前往燈塔，但在他們要翻越懸崖的時候，兩人分開了。丹尼爾斯在懸崖下的山洞發(fā)現了一個女人，此人自稱是真的瑞秋·索蘭度（派翠西婭·克拉克森飾），她說自己原是這家醫(yī)院的精神病醫(yī)生，直到有一次發(fā)現了這里正在進行操縱人腦意識的手術實驗，她試圖要警告當局，院方遂將她以病人的身份關了起來。離開了這個女人，丹尼爾斯怎么也找不到奧力，當他回到醫(yī)院時，考利醫(yī)生卻堅持說他是自己來的，他所說的拍檔奧力根本沒有來過。
丹尼爾斯帶著困惑，決定調查到底，他返回燈塔并闖了進去。在燈塔的最頂層，考利醫(yī)生正在等他?？祭t(yī)生向他解釋了所有疑惑，“丹尼爾斯”本人便是縱火犯安德魯·雷迪斯，其妻溺死了他們的孩子后，他便縱火殺死了他的妻子，被關進這里。這幾天發(fā)生的一切都是為具有陰謀幻想癥的雷迪斯安排的，讓雷迪斯扮演丹尼爾斯這一角色，實際上“丹尼爾斯”這個名字是通過他自己名字的回文構詞法拼寫出來的。醫(yī)院員工都是這個測試的一部分，其中希恩醫(yī)生扮演奧力一角，雷迪斯每次偏頭疼的發(fā)作是因為他一直服用的藥的藥效在減退，他殺死自己妻子的回憶便會出現，這時雷迪斯又昏迷了。

雷迪斯再一次醒來，他躺在醫(yī)院里，由考利醫(yī)生和希恩醫(yī)生看護。當被問及時，雷迪斯能清楚地回憶起他殺死妻子的細節(jié)，這證明他的精神病癥狀有所好轉，也讓醫(yī)生們感到欣慰。考利醫(yī)生說他九個月前也曾清醒過，但病情很快惡化，這次是他們?yōu)槔椎纤怪委煹淖詈笠淮螜C會。數日后的一天，雷迪斯和希恩醫(yī)生坐在醫(yī)院的院子里，他突然叫希恩醫(yī)生“恰克”，還說一定要向世人揭發(fā)這家醫(yī)院的陰謀?？祭t(yī)生知道雷迪斯的病情又惡化了，無奈只有帶他去燈塔進行腦葉切手術抹去記憶。在他被帶走的那刻，他問希恩醫(yī)生：“像怪物一樣生存，抑或做個好人死去，哪一種狀態(tài)更差呢？”顯然在他被帶走的那一刻，他是清醒的。