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Shutter Island (2010) - 35 mistakes

starring Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer, Jackie Earle Haley, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Max von Sydow, Michelle Williams, Patricia Clarkson, Ted Levine (add more)

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Other: When Leo is laying his dead kids on the grass, the little girl keeps moving her eyes and breathing.

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Continuity: When Teddy's kids are lying dead on the grass, the position of the girl's arms keeps changing between shots.

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Other: In the scene with the dying German officer lying on the floor, his gun is lying by his left hand - the same side as the big EXIT wound in his head. The gun should be by his right hand.

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Continuity: While Teddy Daniels is talking to George Noyce in his cell in ward C, each time the camera angle switches George change between scratching his head and no hand at all.

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Factual error: Although the movie is set in 1954, the front wheels of the warden's Jeep had distinctive locking hubs that were not introduced until the 1970s.

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Continuity: When Teddy swims towards the light house and gets out of the sea, his clothes are wet, few seconds later, when he is running up the stairs, his clothes are absolutely dry.

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Factual error: The sign 'Arbeit macht frei' which was used in most concentration camps, in this film is the one from Auschwitz which was in a kind of semi circle, the sign from Dachau was oblong.

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Continuity: The first night Chuck and Teddy sleep in the bunk bed, Chuck's head is totally resting on the pillow in the close-up angle, as opposed to the semi-rigid position from the previous wide angle shot.

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Factual error: At the end of the movie Teddy is sitting on the steps of the building and Chuck approaches, sits with him and offers him a cigarette, and takes one himself. As Chuck takes his out of the pack of Lucky Strikes the cigarette has a filter. Lucky Strikes did not have filter cigarettes in the 1950s.

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Continuity: Two cops run away from a wall when a tree falls in front of them. Half a second later they are standing still next to the wall, as if nothing had happened.

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Continuity: In Cawley's office Teddy takes an aspirin with one hand and a glass of water with the other. Next shot his hands are empty.

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Continuity: The morning after Teddy's light-flash migraines, he and Chuck walk out into the center courtyard and look upon the havoc wreaked by the thunderstorm. Teddy glances up at the electric wires around the gated perimeter and sees a branch that had fallen and bent the line. In the first shot, the log is leaning into the courtyard. The shot then cuts closer and the log is leaning outside of the courtyard. When the shot cuts back to Teddy, the log is once again mostly inside the courtyard.

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Continuity: When Teddy's in the lake holding his dead kids, the amount of floating leaves increases / decreases randomly between shots.

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Continuity: When Teddy and Chuck are walking through the grave yard they approach a building which they enter to get out of the rain. When they are taking off their rain coats, Teddy throws his, but Chuck's just disappears between shots.

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Continuity: While talking with Teddy, Noyce's hand is either holding the bar or raised depending on the angle.

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Other: When Edward is entering the lighthouse, he grabs the doorknob on the left side of the door. Next scene, when we see him entering, the doorknob is on the right side.

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Revealing: In the very first scene, when Teddy and Chuck meet, they are standing on the bow of a ship traveling at full speed (as the Captain wants to return to the mainland before the storm hits), yet their lapels don't so much as flutter. Even at a slower speed, there would be some movement from the air as they passed across the water.

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Continuity: When Teddy grabs his dead daughter in the lake and cries, his fringe is all wet and covering the forehead. When the angle changes, it's combed to the left.

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Continuity: When Leo has the doctor against the wall near the end with the syringe in his hand, in the angle looking at the doctor, the needle is closer to his neck, but when it switches sides to Leo, he is holding the syringe farther from his neck, within the space of seconds.

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Continuity: When Rachel is covered in blood she places her hand on Teddy's cheek. When the angle changes it's suddenly over his shoulder.

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