Shutter Island extends its psychological inquiry into historical and political guilt. Teddy’s recurring vision of liberating Dachau—where he witnessed guards forced to kneel over mass graves—suggests that his personal crime (murdering his wife) is entangled with a broader, unnamed American guilt. Scorsese explicitly links:
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