Sammy Kate’s Reviews > Shutter Island > Status Update

“If you are not crazy, but people have told the world you are, all of your protests to the contrary just underscore their point.”

finally spiraled out of ward c

…the doctor explains that the schizophrenic female patient [that escaped] doesn’t simply hallucinate — she builds intricate, self-reinforcing stories to explain her reality, adding detail after detail until the listener is overwhelmed and stops questioning the logic altogether. [paraphrase of long quote]

The island is already its own character—shrouded in fog and mystery, it seems to watch you as you arrive..