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Shutter Island (Themes (Appearance vs Reality ((Changes in outfits worn by…

- - - - Changes in outfits worn by Teddy as the film progresses
    - - Represents Teddy's trauma
        
        Invades Teddy's thought and actions
        
        Teddy feels sick on the boat
    - - representing that it is his delusions
        
        Insanity is used to portray this theme
  - - - Unconscious suppression of the past
      - The interplay with Teddy’s past repetitively echoed into the present alludes to Teddy’s inability to separate his internal mental state and exterior reality
      - Teddy cannot assimilate his trauma which causes him to replay memories over and over as flashbacks and hallucinations
  - - - Dolores Chanal: “Let's put them at the table, we'll dry them off, change their clothes. They'll be our living dolls, huh? Tomorrow we can take them on a picnic.
        
        Teddy Daniels: If you ever loved me, Dolores, please stop talking.”
        
        Teddy Daniels: “I killed them ‘case I didn’t get her help.”
        
        Dr. Cawley: “Sanity’s not a choice, Marshal. You can’t just choose to get over it.”
        
        Concept of blood washing away blood
        
        Violent traumatic process to cleanse himself of his past
        
        Teddy has accepted his role in the war, otherwise this would have materialised with his subconscious trying to keep that out. This acts as a foundation for misplaced guilt and grief
  - - - Andrew Laeddis
        
        Struggles with identity
        
        Fire represents hallucinations
        
        Water represents the reality
        
        Enforced identity is an accepted part of society where authorities, such as mental institutions work to “correct” identities - this is emphasised in the film through the use of uniformed clothing, isolation (on the island)(outside of the confines of “normal/rational” society), dark, twisted settings, and dull colour filters.