Who is 67?

[gwaevalarin]

I finally watched "Shutter Island" last night. What is it with Leonardo DiCaprio and really good movies lately? Could he please stop that because I don't particularly like his acting which always makes me think: Gosh, that movie is great but why can't we have someone else for the lead role? I'm not saying that he is a bad actor, not at all, I just don't like his acting style.
Anyway, there was a detail in the movie that caught my attention and is still puzzling me because it doesn't fit.
When I saw the trailer my mind instantly went to "I bet he's really a patient." I don't know what exactly gave it away for me. It was still a great movie to watch and I pretty much spent it looking for clues that my theorie is right. And one thing I was sure is a clue at that time was in the scene when Teddy/Andrew interviews the female patient. She aks for a glass of water, Chuck brings her one, she drinks and puts it on the table. So far, so unremarkable. Only, when she drinks there is no glass in her hand.

Here she drinks, no glass:


The next moment she puts the empty glass down:


This was obviously done deliberately but from my understanding this interview is very real. It's part of the role play that Sheehan and Cawley set up to pull Andrew out of his fantasy. So how does the vanishing glass fit in? Is there any explanation or did they just do it to screw with the viewer even though it does't make sense in the context of the scene?

Comments

[snuffkin.livejournal.com]

lol ich les mal nicht obwohl ich for 3 tagen mal angefangen hab zu schauen und dann nen Freund gefragt hab, wie lange er gebracht hat um den Twist zu erraten, weil ich mich dumm fühle nach einer Stunde und es nicht checke.

Und er: Ach als er die nummer gesehen hab, wusste ich dass er es ist :I NA TOLL Ich werd ihn wohl an einem ruhigne nachmittag mal angucken weil er echt übelst lange geht.


Und Leo ♥ Es ist so schön zu sehen wie er groß geworden ist und gut und so (auch wenn du ihn jetzt nicht so magst *g* )

[gwaevalarin.livejournal.com]

It's a little more than two hours but it doesn't really feel long.

I guessed the solutions when I saw the trailer and I still thought it was a great movie to watch. Then again, I didn't know for sure if my guess was right.
I hope you'll still be able to enjoy it as well.

[stickers83.livejournal.com]

Wow- I totally missed that little part of the movie! I don't think I was in the right mood for a movie like this because I felt very confused by the end. You are right about Leo playing this part- someone else may have done it better??

Sorry I have no insight about the glass thing- if I watch it again I will be on the lookout for it tho :)

[gwaevalarin.livejournal.com]

I usually never catch things like that but that scene looked so odd that I rewound it to take a closer look.

I don't know if someone else might have been a better choice for the role. It really might just be personal dislike of his acting style on my part. For some reason the name Colin Farrell keeps poping up in my head whenever I try to think of someone.