Film Study/Analysis

Individual Film Study

Genre: psychological horror

Similar Films To Our Own..

Shutter Island

U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Mental Hospital/Prison. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long, he begins to wonder whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical and illegal to downright sinister. Teddy's forward investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.

This film is similar to ours in the sense that an individual is drove insane by self torment and question his own sanity, the film also reaches a peak of realization at the end just as our own film does.

Things the film does to display its genre:
the films color scheme stays mainly grey and black colors making sure the lighting is dull and also using reds to highlight important information or key points, the film also uses flashbacks to great effect but showing them not as the audience remembers them, this is used to make the audience question their own minds and make them feel uneasy about not remembering what just happened

Case 39:

Social Worker Emily Jenkins is assigned to investigate the family of ten year-old Lilith Sullivan as her grades have declined and an emotional rift with her parents has emerged. Emily suspects that the parents have been mistreating Lilith. Emily's fears are confirmed when Lilith’s parents try to kill her by roasting her in the oven at home. Emily saves Lilith with the help of Detective Mike Barron. Lilith is originally sent to a children's home, but she begs Emily to look after her instead. With the agreement of the board, Emily is assigned to take care of Lilith until a suitable foster family comes along. In the meantime, Lilith’s parents, Edward and Margaret are placed in a mental institution.

Not too long after Lilith moves in, strange things begin to happen around Emily. Two weeks later, another of Emily's cases, a boy named Diego suddenly murders his parents, and Barron informs Emily that somebody phoned Diego from her house the night before the crime. As she is suspected of involvement in the incident, Lilith undergoes a psychiatric evaluation by Emily's best friend, Douglas J. Ames. During the session, however, Lilith turns the evaluation around, asking Douglas what his fears are and subtly threatening him. That night, Douglas receives a strange phone call and is panicked by a mass of hornets coming out of his body; in hysteria, he kills himself in his bathroom. The film continues with the torment of each character until once again as typical with this genre a climax is reached.