Shutter(2008) Best Plot Analysis with Plot Twist

Cast and crews in Shutter 2008?

Shutter(2008) is a supernatural horror film directed by Masayuki Ochiai. It is a remake of 2004 thai film of the same name. The movie stars Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor etc.

Table of Contents

• Cast and crews in Shutter 2008?
• ‘It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.’
• Plot Summary of Shutter 2008:
• Plot Twist in Shutter 2008:
• The way Migumi died in the first place in Shutter 2008:
• The aftermath of Ben in Shutter 2008:
• If you can’t love someone, you can ignore him or her. It will take some time to make them understand but they will eventually. But if they don’t understand, then you are in danger, boy!!!
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‘It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.’

                       -Alfred

Plot Summary of Shutter 2008:

Ben and Jane are a newly married couple originally from New York, who have shifted to Tokyo for working purposes.

They kick off for Japan and Jane is driving the car. Jane wakes Ben up to see the map and becomes inattentive to the driving. Suddenly a Japanese girl gets in front of the car. Jane causes an accident by hitting the car into a tree and gets unconscious.

When they wake up, they don’t find the girl. Jane calls the police and they don’t even find the girl. Ben tries to calm Jane down because it’s so likely that somebody helped her while they were unconscious. Ben and Jane spend that night in a cottage and they pick some photographs of their happy moments to forget the incident.

Ben and Jane will stay new Tokyo home adjacent to their from now on. There comes Bruno who helped a lot to get this huge opportunity from a Japanese company. Bruno seeks apology for not being able to attend their ceremony. Bruno inform about the last of the models whose polaroid he sent over to him.

Ben shows interest in two of the models and Bruno makes fun of it since they are the partners in crime. Ben attends the meeting and takes the authority of his studio. Ben and Jane are so happy seeing the studio. Seiko Nakamura, the assistant, is taking care of all the things. Jane wakes up having a nightmare about the girl.

Next morning, Jane gets the cottage photos with some blurry portions. Ben assumes it is a camera fault. Jane hears some whispers and noise coming from her immediate down floor. She roams around Tokyo city and takes some photos. Ben feels pain in his neck which should be checked by a doctor. Jane shows her photographs to Seiko. The blur portions indicate spirit photographs. Her ex is a spirit photographer, so they decide to meet him.

Next day Adam, Bruno and Ben get together with each other. When Adam asks, Jane introduces herself as a certified teacher of sixth grade students. Conversely, Adam supplies girls for Ben and Bruno when they need girls for a photoshoot. Jane goes to Seiko’s ex, Ritsuo. He says they actually make fake spirit photos but there are some photos which are real.

He takes her to a room where there are a bunch of real spirit photos and shows her his first spirit photos which is his own mother’s picture. She says when people can’t fulfil any task which needs to be done in their lifetime, they come to finish in their afterlife to meet their desires.

Spirit photos don’t have negatives. Conversely, Ben can’t perform clicking photos well. It has been an expensive loss for him. He sees some unusual things in the photographs. It dips his face into chemical filled water burning his face.

When Seiko arrives, all burnt portions have been gone. They get totally fine. Jane gets on a train and she sees that girl on the road. She gets so fearful and gets off the train. She arrives home and hears about Ben’s loss. All these things may be happening for that girl. On the contrary, Ben tries to get her out of the matter of ghosts.

Jane keeps thinking about the matter while Ben is working. Suddenly someone touches him seductively. He thinks about Jane and tells her not to fight anymore. In the meantime, Ben gets a phone call. He receives that call and realises it is from Jane. They go to a spiritualist. He gets so angry listening to all the things and says something in the Japanese language. But Ben takes her from the place pulling her hands and saying he is talking nuts.

Jane understands that something is wrong. She examines the photos which were taken in front of the TGK building. At one point she finds her and runs away but Migumi closes the door and makes a photo frame fall on the floor. Jane notices that the photographer of that photo is Benjamin Shaw.

She asks if he knew the girl. Ben acknowledges his fault by telling a story. He knew the girl and they slept in one night. He wanted to marry her but her family didn’t approve. From his side he didn’t love the girl but the girl fell in love wholeheartedly. Bruno told her the truth and she left. From then, no one saw that girl again.

Adam is doing a secret photoshoot with a Russian model. She is eager to be intimate with him so they are having some obscene photoshoots. Suddenly one of his eyes gets injured. He gets blind. Bruno gives the news to Ben. Ben wants to go but Migumi attacks her. Suddenly he runs off towards her but he jumps off the building.

Jane asks that she killed her then why she has chosen to kill them. Jane says leaving this place will not solve the problem. She has been with them before they got here because their wedding photos are blurred too. The medium said that spirits are tied to the flesh. Even in death.

Migumi had a house a few hours outside of Tokyo, they will start there. They enter the house but no one responds. Ben sees Migumi sitting on a chair and their closer look informs she died many years ago. The police cremate her body and arrange a funeral. But at night Migumi kisses him and enters germs into his mouth. Jane wakes up and sees he has fallen on the floor. She tells her,

‘Leave us alone. He left you because he never loved you.’

She eventually leaves them and they cremate the body. Ben and Jane return to New York.

Plot Twist in Shutter 2008:

In the morning, Jane gets some flowers and a camera. Jane finds the photos of that day and sees Migumi is here too. She gathers the photos to see where it goes. She notices Migumi going behind a picture.

She finds a store room and a camera in a trunk. There is a pen drive of some pictures where she sees Adam and Bruno touching Migumi so badly. Jane gets cringed in hatred. She shows it to Ben and he tells all the truth.

When Migumi wasn’t leaving him alone, Bruno plans to give her pills and take some photos to use against her. Ben takes photos and they rape her taking her on the floor. Jane asks how you could live with this. Forgetting this incident doesn’t make you a different person. Jane leaves him forever.

The way Migumi died in the first place in Shutter 2008:

She loved Ben. Ben had an affair and was about to get married to her. Her family didn’t approve of the marriage. So Ben retreated from the decision. He was not that into her. He actually never loved her. It was an unrequited love from the side of Migumi. So being betrayed she takes potassium cyanide and committed suicide. 

The aftermath of Ben in Shutter 2008:

No, he couldn’t. He finds that the girl is on his neck. He burnt his neck to get rid of her but instead he gets more leaned on and burns his neck. At the end he gets hospitalised and we see her sitting on his neck for forever.

If you can’t love someone, you can ignore him or her. It will take some time to make them understand but they will eventually. But if they don’t understand, then you are in danger, boy!!!

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