A life-saving antidote can’t save a stubborn mental illness

Kaia 2022-03-26 09:01:07

The beauty of the Swiss mountains, the mountains and the mountains, the panoramic view, and the mystery of the European castles, it is simply beautiful.

A resort like this must have a story about it. In this film, the male protagonist gradually unearthed the legendary past events that happened to it and its owner in the years when they belonged to them in the sanatorium transformed from the old castle...

The male protagonist, Lakha, is a rising star on Wall Street. In the capital market where the strong eat the weak, Lakha and his colleagues are also fighting openly and secretly, biting dogs and cats. On the issue of company mergers and acquisitions, the company's shareholders, who all want to shirk their responsibilities, assigned Lakha to a Swiss nursing home to take back CEO Pantou to take the corresponding responsibility (find a scapegoat).

Rakha, who had not been smooth on the way there, indicated that this matter was not so simple. Sure enough, under the passive cooperation of the sanatorium, not only did they not see Pan Bo, but Lakha also had a car accident and was admitted to the sanatorium. But as he lived in the sanatorium day by day, Lakha learned about the past and present of the sanatorium, and discovered many strange things in the sanatorium.

By getting to know Hannah, who behaves differently from ordinary people, the truth about the sanatorium is slowly revealed to Rakha. When looking for Pan Bo, he accidentally broke into a room similar to a space capsule. The glass covers were full of people, including Lao Pan. In fact, this section is quite like a person returning to the womb, returning to the beginning, which is considered the safest place. In this state, what people think of is not resistance, but peacefully enjoying the long-lost ease and comfort. It is not difficult to explain that after a series of "spa treatments", so-called patients, even if they told them the truth, they insisted that they were sick like crazy. This is the strong will of people who have returned to their infantile state, not to return to the noisy and fucked reality, even if the current state will kill them, but as the dean of the baron said: "...they are voluntary. ."

In addition to the beautiful location, the film is very successful, and the people in the film have an understanding of "sickness". Just like Lakha, he had a lot of visions, including childhood experiences, about Hannah, about "treatment" scenes, and even chose to receive treatment under the guidance of the Baron Dean's similar blindness, and believed that he really Sick, and his expression began to slowly become dull. There are also those patients who come to recuperate. Even though their bodies are getting thinner and thinner, they still believe in the theory that they are terminally ill. This is very fatal. When it is clear that there is no serious problem, it is ideologically determined that one is sick. This kind of identification with the patient's "sickness" is the invisible weapon in the sanatorium to kill people. As the patients say: "Who wants to get out of here (morbid to identity)."

For the medical staff in the sanatorium, their morbidity is to achieve the purpose of "experiment" by means of almost abnormal methods (refining the essence of mermaid oil, the most awesome is the blue bottle, is it also one bottle top five bottles), and Have fun. Everyone performs their duties in an orderly manner. Of course, their big boss, Baron, is a morbid leader in the field of crazy theory and practice. After killing his sister, he still thinks about cultivating a pure blood with his daughter, which is almost insane.

Fortunately, when the Baron was holding the wedding, Lakha woke up when he held his mother's relic ballet girl, as his mother said: "She is dreaming, she just doesn't know it." And when Hannah was almost raped by her biological father I rushed to the scene and set a fire like yesterday.

At this time, the dean of the baron who had exploded showed his true colors, and his burnt face was as ferocious as the red skull in Hydra. Seeing that Lakha, who was at the bottom of the fight, was about to be fed an eel, Hannah picked up an axe to "solve" her father and defuse the crisis (Europeans just like plots like father-killing, and nobles are very interested in pure blood. 's obsession has also reached a near-mad stage since the great European plague).

Lakha and Hannah, who escaped from the basement, saw the behavior of the people in the old castle after the fire, and they felt similar to Mr. Lu Xun's emotion (even if they can save their physical illness, they can't save their mental illness for a long time). stubborn illness).

Finally, with that weird smile from Hannah, Lakha reminds me of two classic movie scenes: The Joker in Batman (what makes an immortal face), Noodles in Once Upon a Time in America (Robert Denis) Luo's last weird smile)...

Overall, it feels like flying over a lunatic asylum, but more elements are added into it. Those who are not sick say they are sick, and those who are sick hide that they are sick. However, in the spiritual world, who would dare to say that it is normal to be consistent...

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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?