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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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Continuity: Teddy has a freckle or bruise next to the band-aid that appears and disappears all the time.

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Continuity: Before Teddy finds Chuck dead, Chuck takes his hand to the pocket in his jacket to grab a paper. When the angle changes, his arm is in a different position and he repeats the previous movement.

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Continuity: The lighthouse shown at 0:16:29 has more fences around than the same lighthouse shown at 1:20:00.

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Continuity: At the end of the movie, Teddy and Chuck are talking by the steps. Teddy's cigarette is in his mouth or away depending on the angle, with no continuity sense whatsoever.

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Continuity: When Teddy interrupts the doctors' meeting, the coffee spoon on Dr. Cawley's saucer changes positions between the first and second angle.

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Continuity: On the boat, Teddy lights up a cigarette and holds it in his mouth. A frame later it appears in between his fingers.

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Continuity: During Teddy and Chuck's interview with Peter Breene, when Teddy scribbles with the pencil in his notebook (which annoys Breene), the force of the rather large slanted scribblings tear the paper. After Teddy says, "Do you know what she was afraid of," in the close-up that tear is gone, the scribbling has changed shape and we can see that some pages have been torn out of the notebook (likely from prior takes). Then in a following shot the scribbling is smaller.

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Continuity: When Teddy arrives home and sees his wife on the swing, the ducks in the lake appear or disappear depending on the angle.

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Continuity: When the German officer is dying, his gun has a paper next to it. When Teddy kicks the gun away the paper is gone.

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Continuity: Teddy arrives home, walks out to the lake and no bodies are seen floating. After he speaks to his wife the corpses suddenly appear. Since the vision of the empty lake is in the background and not Teddy's point of view (and therefore a vision of his memories) it is a movie mistake.

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Continuity: During the dying German scene, the needle on the record player moves backwards between the first and second angle, in barely a couple seconds.

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Other: When Teddy and Chuck are smoking under the portico roof during a downpour, they are first shown from the back and are completely in shadow, from head to toe. The shot changes to the front and their head and shoulders are lit from above. This would have been seen from the back as well as the front if it were intentional.

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Continuity: During Teddy's interrogation of Bridget Kearns, she takes Teddy's notebook and writes something on the page to the left. Yet, when he shows the notebook to Chuck Aule, all of Bridget's writing is on the page to the right.

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Continuity: After Teddy takes his dead daughter's shoe off, its position changes between angles.

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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 the way he holds his match changes.

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