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If you've seen the film, please rate it at this poll.
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Summary: An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps. He soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem. When he begins to unravel its terrifying secrets, his sanity is tested, as he finds himself diagnosed with the same curious illness that keeps all the guests there longing for the cure
Director: Gore Verbinski
Writer: Justin Haythe
Cast:
Dane DeHaan as Lockhart
Douglas Hamilton as 9-year old Lockhart
Jason Isaacs as Dr. Heinreich Volmer
Mia Goth as Hannah
Adrian Schiller as Deputy Director
Celia Imrie as Victoria Watkins
Ashok Mandanna as Ron Nair
Harry Groener as Pembroke
Godehard Giese as Prim Technician
Tomas Norström as Franc Hill
Angelina Häntsch as Volmer Institute Staff
Jeff Burrell as Funeral Director
Annette Lober as Volmer Institute Staff
Eric Todd as Josh
Christian Brauer as Technician
Thomas Richter as Water Trainer
Chris Huszar as Wedding Guest
Marko Buzin as Wedding Guest
Rotten Tomatoes: 42%
Metacritic: 47/100
After Credits Scene?: No
Wow, this movie! This was absolutely AMAZING! Visually gorgeous with chilling atmosphere. I thought it was really well done and written. The story was definitely strange and creepy, but I really like the way is it. I also love the twist ending. I loved set design, it was seriously wonderful. The cinematography was one of the better things of the movie, it was just so good. I thought Dane DeHaan did a good job, but Mia Goth was absolutely fantastic in it. It sucks it got a lot of negative reviews, but it's an excellent film and it will make you feel like you are watching Shutter Island with a young version of Leo. This movie is perhaps one of the most underrated films of 2017 so far. I'd give it a 9.5 out of 10.
In the ending, as Lockhart's cycling away from the castle, he smiles wide, showing all of his teeth. How is that possible, if he had two teeth pulled out? If the final shot is true, then Lockhart's perception of losing his teeth cannot be trusted. And if his perception is unreliable there, what else can't be trusted?
Lockhart first witnesses the eels inside the sensory deprivation tank, which are known to cause hallucinations. Usually after several hours, Lockhart saw the eels within minutes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_deprivation)
Lockhart's father killed himself in front of his own son when he was five. His Mom idolizes her dead husband and Lockhart doesn't relate to her. Lockhart works in a cutthroat corporate culture that gave the guy from the prologue a heart attack, sent Pembroke running for the hills/Swiss Alps, and drove his own father to suicide. Lockhart clearly has a ton of unprocessed psychological issues, issues that would come to the surface the moment he entered a therapeutic program, and was cut off from his primary coping mechanisms: work and smoking. With nowhere to funnel his excess trauma and anger, Lockhart projects his issues onto his caretakers, developing delusions of persecution, abetted by the facility's unconventional treatment methods (the sensory deprivation tank) amplifying his visual hallucinations. He feels his anger towards his father, really feels it, for the first time. But instead of feeling that anger for his own father, he projects it onto the nearest father figure: his doctor. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transference)
Volmer even diagnoses Lockhart with unchecked guilt over the death of his father. For a incestuous rapist immortal murderer, that's a pretty astute observation. It's almost like he's a trained psychologist. And in order for Lockhart to move past his guilt, to accept that he wasn't responsible for his father's death, he'd begin to accept that his father is responsible. Lockhart's guilt turns to anger, anger at his father for abandoning him, for being a bad father. Isn't it odd how Lockhart spends the rest of the film fighting what turns out to be a horrible father figure?
Don't get me wrong. The Gothic Horror backstory is very convincing, and the film has no definite signaling for "this scene is real" and "this scene is not real". But why would Verbinski spend so much time developing Lockhart and his company and his traumatic backstory before we ever get to Volmer's wellness center, if it didn't provide context on the events that follow? Why does Lockhart's boss, upon seeing the burning wellness center, say "Lockhart, what have you done?" if Verbinski didn't want us to think of the burning wellness center as a bad thing?
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." What's more probable?
A traumatized everyman stumbles upon a science fiction conspiracy, ultimately centered around an immortal incestuous rapist father, and it all just happens to parallel his own personal issues.
Or
An undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, who really really needs therapy, resists his treatment, develops a huge delusion of persecution, and ultimately burns the whole place down.