re: the ending of Shutter Island - discussion (SPOILERS)

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i guess im an idiot? so he did go in crazy...? or did he become crazy during the process?

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the lighthouse scene should have uncovered your questions and tied everything together.

Did the film pretty much follow the novel accurately?

I really enjoyed this movie. I hadn't seen any trailers for the movie (just knew Leo and Scorsese = the shite) so I had no idea what to expect. It was much darker and scarier than I expected. Some of the imagery you could imagine, as mentioned earlier, in a Hitchcock movie. While I had an idea that Teddy was the 67th patient I was just looking forward to seeing how they would explain it. I agree with others that have said that Andrew had gotten better and wanted the labatomy to be done. I think his experiences in the war and the haunting memories of his wife/kids was just too much for him to want to live with. 8/10.

Is there any chance that Leo killed his three kids and his wife because Kingsley kept saying what a horrible crime he did?

i get everything about the movie except just one thing....why did andrew burn down the apt building with his wife in it? was he trying to kill her or was it an accident?

i dont think there was a burned apartment building. he shot his wife at the lake house, so where would the apartment be?

i think he made up that story as to what happened to his wife in his mind.

you're to believe they gave him the clothes and took him out on the ferry, knowing that his delusions would take over and he would think he was arriving at the island for the first time.

The doctor who then introduced himself as the other US Marshall led Leo right where his delusions wanted to take him

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i dont think there was a burned apartment building. he shot his wife at the lake house, so where would the apartment be?

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didn't they say that she'd burned the apt. (or at least set it on fire, not sure it burned to the ground), and that's why they moved to the lake house. and that incident was one of the signs that she was going nuts.

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Cawley knew Andrew's story well, and was most likely just having some fun as he was about to yet again embark on a mission to convince Andrew who he really was.

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A psychiatrist wouldn't do something like that to have with a patient. Him repeating the phrase was likely an attempt to trigger the memories of his wife drowning his children. I trying to help a patient process repressed traumatic memories some type of exposure is the preferred method. Most psychotherapies for PTSD eventually come down to some exposure component.

I just watched the movie and was left with 2 questions-

1) I felt like the quote about monsters was said earlier in the movie?

2) After Leo leaves with the doctors for the Lobotomy. they show the lighthouse in the very next scene and the movie ends on that. Going through both scenes I thought he had excepted reality and didn't want to live with the memories. But when they show the lighthouse I thought they were insinuating that Leo was actually Teddy, he accepted he would never get off the island, and they took him to the lighthouse to do the lobotomy where all along Teddy thought they were doing experimental surgeries in there?