Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island (2010)—about a tortured-minded police officer’s investigation into a mysterious hospital—was filmed entirely under cloudy skies.
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The bad weather gets worse as we get deeper into the plot.
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It only changes at the end of the film, when the sun appears during the final scene.
Far from being a purely aesthetic choice to serve dramatic tension, Scorsese constructed this atmosphere in direct reference to Freud, who described the subconscious as a cloudy time where confusion reigned, as opposed to the clear sky of consciousness.