Similar films

Our film is a drama/mystery thriller. The genre of drama and mystery gives an overall feel of the film shutter island as the characters are going through similar experiences in a mental institution.

The mystery of our plot is that the main character doesn't know he's in a mental asylum and the audience think that the man is just looking for his wife, when in fact he can't face what's happened to her and so makes a story up to protect his feelings whereas the plot in shutter island concerns a male whose wife murdered their children and so he murdered her and convinced himself he had no children and was a detective searching for the missing 67th person in a mental asylum who had gone missing, even though he was the 67th person and played a role of another identity to protect himself from the pain.

I think the idea of a person not knowing who they really are is good as these films tend to hold mystery and make the audience intrigued to watch. This Review of the film highlights why the film is so good which is why it has inspired our group to do something similar because everything is foreshadowed and disguised it effects the senses and makes the audience want answers

Another film with a similar genre is identity due to the mystery of the plot and the thrill behind the murders happening as in the film a group of people come together during a night of bad weather and murders begin to happen, at the end it turns out a character who is in the group of people has multiple personality disorder and only one of his identities is a murderer however he doesn't know which one. This would be slightly the same as our film as our character doesn't understand who he really is or who he's looking for.

Thirdly there's a series called lost which could be similar as all the characters believe that they're stuck on an island when in fact they died in a plane crash and can't face the fact they're dead as they still have important things to do. Our character is similar as he cannot face knowing his wife is dead and so creates a story that he himself believes so he doesn't have to continue hurting. The series involves many people searching for their loved ones who were also involved in the plane crash whilst ours involves a man searching for his wife.