In reality, Noyce is a patient, whose backstory is unrevealed, and the truths he tells Teddy about experiments are actually true, but not in the way Teddy believes. Ultimately, Noyce is real, but Andrew's backstory for him is part of his delusional fantasy: he creates the idea of him as a nice college kid who murdered three men as a result of being experimented on as part of a psych study. But that doesn't explain the treatment of George Noyce himself, which seems to have a nefarious undertone.

Sheehan to create the role play game as a last-ditch effort to cure Laeddis. Naehring and the Warden to push for Laeddis to be lobotomized, causing Dr. What is known is that one day Noyce called 'Teddy' by his real name, Laeddis, causing a psychotic outburst where Andrew savagely beat him up. Was George included as a part of the 'game' he tells Teddy he's trapped in by the doctors in order to help Andrew's fantasy play out?.If George was a victim of Andrew's violence, why was he locked up with the most dangerous patients?.Naehring (Max von Sydow) and the Warden (Ted Levine) believe that guys like Andrew are too unstable and violent for a therapeutic solution strapping patients down and drugging them (in some cases lobotomizing them) are the solutions Naehring and the Warden believe in. Sheehan.Ĭawley and Sheehan are the more sympathetic doctors, who believe that with therapy and compassion madness can be cured in someone like Andrew Laeddis. Cawley (Sir Ben Kingsley) and Teddy's partner 'Chuck' (Mark Ruffalo), who is actually Teddy's primary shrink, the 'missing' Dr. Teddy's investigation of the island is actually an intricate role playing game designed by Dr. patient 67), a disturbed inmate of Shutter Island who killed his wife, and who the doctors are trying to rehabilitate. DiCaprio's character is actually Andrew Laeddis (a.k.a. The theories about Shutter Island being some secret government facility - or the doctors 'getting to' Teddy Daniels by the end of the film are simply off the mark.

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