Movie Essay

Florence 2022-04-22 07:01:32

The setting is that the water in the aquifer here is poisonous, but eels can live here for three hundred years, and the normal lifespan is only ten years. The baron, that is, the boss, discovered that as long as people drink water, Through the action of eel, a certain essence can be produced, which can prolong life and cure diseases. Eel + human is equivalent to a filter. Of course, in the end, people will be gradually squeezed dry by this process. In the end, the dried man was also thrown into an underground cave for the eels to eat. So in this setting, a lot of behavior is also explained.

1. The hospital always asks people to drink more water to prepare for extracting the essence.

2. When the male protagonist is drinking water, he finds that there are worms in the cup. It is estimated that it is a corpse worm or something, or a parasite in an eel? It doesn't feel like a good thing anyway.

3. After reading some movie reviews, it is said that the male protagonist loses his teeth as an illusion, and it is true that he is drilled later. I disagree, because the male protagonist received a treatment before and almost drowned. This treatment should also belong to extracting essence. A preparatory step, so it is harmful to the body and the cause of tooth loss.

4. The baron is the dean, and the heroine is his daughter, needless to say...

Personal notes, please detour if you don't like it.

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A Cure for Wellness quotes

  • Pembroke: [Lockhart reading his letter] To my fellow-members of the Board. A man cannot unsee the truth. He cannot willingly return to darkness, or go blind once he has the gift of sight, any more than he can be unborn. We are the only species capable of self-reflection. The only species with the toxin of self-doubt written into our genetic code. Unequal to our gifts, we build, we buy, we consume. We wrap us in the illusion of material success. We cheat and deceive as we claw our way to the pinnacle of what we define as achievement. Superiority to other men.

  • Pembroke: [Lockhart now reading the letter sitting at boardroom table] There is a sickness inside us. Rising like the bile that leaves that bitter taste at the back of our throats. It's there in every one of you seated around the table. We deny its existence until one day the body rebels against the mind and screams out, "I am not a well man." No doubt you will think only of the merger. That unclean melding of two equally diseased institutions. But the truth cannot be ignored. For only when we know what ails us can we hope to find the cure. I will not return. Do not attempt to contact me again. Sincerely, Roland E. Pembroke.

    Hank Green: Well, Mr. Lockhart, what do you make of that?

    Lockhart: Clearly he's lost his mind.

    Wilson: Our thought exactly.

    Hollis: Man goes for two-week spa vacation and has a complete mental breakdown.

    Humphrey: [viewing his smartphone] Who the hell takes the waters in the 21st century anyway?