Leonardo DiCaprio’s Iconic Thriller Foreshadowed Its Final Plot Twist Big Time: Reddit Explains

Summary:

• Back in 2010, Leonardo DiCaprio starred in the perfect thriller, which contains the most horrifying twist of his whole acting career.
• Reddit recalled the detail, pointing to the movie’s seemingly unexpected finale.

The Titanic star gained much recognition as a thriller actor back in 2006, with his The Departed and Blood Diamond receiving much praise from the critics, who emphasized DiCaprio's fitting in the genre. However, there is a 2010 movie which consolidated the actor’s belonging to thrillers, showing how convincing he is at revealing the twists.

Adapted from Dennis Lehane’s 2003 novel, this thriller’s plot revolves around a Deputy U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio), who explores the disappearance of a patient from a psychiatric facility on an isolated island. It’s already enough for the movie to be of great interest to the audience, as such a setting promises quite a chilling roller coaster.

DiCaprio's fans have already recognized the synopsis of Shutter Island. However, the movie’s beginning is only playing with us and is preparing for the final twist, which still blows fans’ minds. It’s most curious that this twist doesn’t come out of nowhere, and there are a number of hidden keys to its solution.

Shutter Island Never Hid Its Plot Twist

Redditors have recently recalled presumably the most intriguing hint dropped by the movie’s director, the industry’s icon Martin Scorsese. It turns out that throughout the whole movie it’s shown that every time DiCaprio's Teddy smokes cigarettes, he gets them lit by somebody else, most often by Mark Ruffalo ’s character, his partner Chuck.

What’s the matter with it, you may think, but it’s a major clue to solving the movie’s mystery.

And the truth is that it “foreshadows that he is actually a patient as mental patients are not allowed to have matches,” reveals Redditor @rasterblaster1111.

Indeed, it perfectly correlates with Shutter Island’s finale, when DiCaprio's character realizes he was never Teddy, but Andrew Laeddis, who murdered his own wife after she drowned their three children. Thus, he’s being held in the facility and put in an elaborate role-play to regain his true persona and to heal his post-traumatic delusions.

There are also other clues pointing to it, for example, depicting the armed guards in the background whenever Teddy is in the focus, as voiced by @LunarsphereTapestry, and so on. The whole movie turns out to be a curious puzzle box for the viewers to solve.

Rewatch this brilliant DiCaprio-starring movie and try to find all the hints, as Shutter Island is available for streaming on Netflix and Prime.

Source: Reddit