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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-09-10 03:33 PM
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Shutter Island -- SPOILER
For those who saw it, at the end, did he intentionally pretend to go into regression so he could punish himself with a lobotomy?
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proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-09-10 03:46 PM
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1. Yep.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-09-10 03:49 PM
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2. The doctor sitting on the steps knew it, didn't he?
That was a little bit of forced artwork having the orderlies coming to get him with the lobotomy tools hidden under the towels.
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proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-09-10 11:46 PM
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9. He did.
They could cure him of his delusion but not his guilt.
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Lil Missy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-09-10 07:00 PM
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3. I wondered that too.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-09-10 10:16 PM
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5. The woman in the cave.
Was she real or imagined?
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-09-10 10:22 PM
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7. Imagined. nm
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Rob H. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-09-10 08:42 PM
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4. If the movie ended that way, they changed it from the book
Edited on Wed Jun-09-10 08:49 PM by Rob H.
In the book he genuinely lapses back into insanity, iirc.
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-09-10 10:21 PM
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6. Yes- he was finally sane, and decided NOT to live with his pain.
The lobotomy wasn't punisment to him, it was ESCAPE.(imho)

Just finally got around to seeing that film about 4 hours ago.
Enjoyed it greatly.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-09-10 10:28 PM
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8. The book was intense...
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