'Shutter Island' film concept analysis

The film Shutter Island has a complex yet interesting concept, a prisoner is missing from a mental hospital/rehabilitation place and an investigator is trying to find her. The film also looks into actions and presents characters as they are confused and wanting answers. The inspirations of Shutter Island came from other films, especially one, Inception. Leonardo DiCaprio who plays a character who is confused and unsure on reality, similar to the character he plays in Inception and he also engages in similar behaviour for both. Narratemes used for this film are that a ‘villain’ tries to escape as she has special powers to make herself vanish. This reinforces real life situations of prisoners escaping from prison or people in mental hospitals escaping and when police have to search for them and find out the reasons behind all their actions. The unique selling point for this film is the use of psychological background and the area/location in which the film was filmed in. The location and set was very unique and also resembled the likes of a mental hospital and the other mental patients drew in attention to how bad this place really was. This really brings in the interest of the audience to want to know more and therefore want to watch the film.