Shutter Iceland (working title: Ashecliffe) is an American psychological thriller with Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role. The film is based on the published in 2003, the novel of the American writer Dennis Lehane.
The U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels investigated in 1954 with his partner Chuck Aule the disappearance of patient Rachel Solando Ashcliffe from the hospital for the mentally disturbed felon, which is located on the island of Iceland shutter off the coast of Massachusetts.
While a hurricane rolls in, makes a return to the mainland impossible at first, solidifies at Daniels is suspected to be carried out on the island of secret experiments on patients. He is plagued by nightmares and hallucinations that revolve mainly around his late wife and memories of his time as a U.S. soldier in World War II, in which he was involved in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. In addition, to worsen the physical symptoms, particularly headaches, nausea and dizziness. Of these complaints stricken, because of its suggestive of a conspiracy investigation, he becomes increasingly paranoid. The research also suggests that there is in addition to the 66 registered patients another patient being treated there incognito.
Daniels reveals Aule that he has reported on a personal basis, even for the case: he had learned from his former fellow students, George Noyce, that the U.S. is building to carry on Shutter Iceland on the human experiments of the Nazis now own abysmal human experiments on unsuspecting and wants the machinations . reveal On the other hand, should be Laeddis Andrew, the caretaker of Daniel's former home, patients in the clinic. Laeddis allegedly set the fire, died at the Daniel's wife. Daniels suggested that Laeddis patient is 67 and wants to put the murderer.
The fleeing woman appears again, and the job is done that way really, Daniels but has already gained a lot more evidence of a conspiracy and first determined by column, then it alone on, because after a meeting with the actually in the hospital incarcerated patients George Noyce also distrusts column.
Finally, he finds another woman, apparently the real Rachel Solando who is hiding in a cave. She tells him that she was formerly a doctor in the hospital and made the patient was made after they had questions about the real nature of the clinic. There, the imprisoned patients were used for experiments on human beings and we work on it, it means brainwashing, psychotropic drugs and, finally, nerveless brain surgery to make unrestrained killing prepare beings without memory, you can use inter alia as agents in the Cold War. She describes these patients as "human monster". Daniels had already been poisoned by secretly donated drinks and cigarettes mixed psychotropic drugs by the doctors of the hospital and his hallucinations were typical for symptoms.
He has aired his opinion, the mystery of Iceland and shutter means to save his now vanished police sharing agreements. He knocks down a security guard with his rifle and penetrates into the lighthouse where it suspects that the people there experiments are carried out.
There, the plot takes an unexpected turn: in the space in the tip of the largely vacant lighthouse hits Daniels for the doctor and his partner, who introduces himself as the doctor Dr. Sheehan. Both reveal to him that he was actually the delusional sick and extremely dangerous 67th Patient, Andrew Laeddis himself, a former marshal. He had two years to shutter Iceland in treatment, Dr. Sheehan since that time his doctor. For two days he had been subjected to a radical, innovative role-playing in order to prevent a lobotomy, which he is threatened by its recent attacks on staff and other patients.
In the role play, he will live out his delusions constructed fictitious identity, with which he protects himself from an unbearable trauma: he had shot his manic-depressive wife, Dolores, have drowned after they shared their three children in a lake. He reproach that he had failed to protect children, especially his daughter, Rachel, and even more that he would not intervene against the illness of his wife. In order to displace the unbearable truth that he had invented a fire: A Andrew Laeddis that he would not be myself, set the fire, and his wife had perished. Rachel Solando is an anagram of the name of his wife, even as the police-an anagram of his name Edward Daniels is the chief consultant to view real name.
His dead daughter Rachel he saw in his hallucinations, including as victims of the Dachau concentration camp, at the liberation, he had actually participated as a soldier, and he seems to remember that he had shot there security guards after they had surrendered. This war crime is indeed historically documented (Dachau massacre), but is unlikely, according to chief doctor that Daniels / Laeddis was involved in the massacre. Instead, he moved the unbearable memory of the shooting his wife to Dachau and other places, like his late arrival in the face of the dead bodies of his children. Similarly, twist and move it the memory of George Noyce, he had brutally attacked after he had called him Laeddis.
Forced to listen to Laeddis defends vigorously. Even the seemingly definitive evidence of human experiments and other inhuman machinations of the clinic, the encounter with the woman in the cave, is a hallucination Laeddis been ', the woman does not exist in reality. After the chief physician, apparently with his toy gun and shoots him, his view of things is inevitably held to be contradictory in mind, he collapsed unconscious.
In his hospital room he sees the images of doctors to be true and believes to allow his memory of a repressed reality again. Thus he now had on their testimony a decisive step towards its cure, and thus dismissal did. At this point, however, he was already come in the course of his treatment before he returned to his delusions, and have replaced any memory of his therapy. In the end, he is warned to guard against another relapse, because in the case of such a lobotomy would be inevitable.
The next day he says his doctor, Dr. Sheehan again as police partner, as he pushed the action in the lighthouse again. Sheehan signals this with a slight shake of the head director of the waiting and the other doctors. At that moment, the Group on the move and Laeddis / Daniels recognizes surgical instruments, is hiding a nurse half-hidden under a cloth. With the words "What would be worse: to live like a monster, or die as a good man?" He rises and walks off with the volunteer nurses and doctors. In the speech, "Teddy" by Dr. Sheehan it stops responding.
