20 Things You Somehow Missed In Shutter Island
18. "Shutter Island" Is An Anagram Of "Truth And Lies"
Because, again, nothing in this movie happens by accident, even its title is a tricky sleight of hand.
The name "Shutter Island" is actually an anagram of both the phrases "truth and lies" and "truth/denials," which is fitting given the story's focus on the elusiveness of truth and denial/self-deception.
It gets even better when you consider that anagrams are a wider part of the movie themselves, given that Andrew Laeddis is an anagram of Edward Daniels, and Rachel Solando is an anagram of Teddy's dead wife Dolores Chanal (Michelle Williams).
From the ground-up, Shutter Island is a riddle of a movie that seems like it's never finished unfurling.