The Cure forWellness

The Cure for wellness

I recently watched "The Cure for Wellness" and found it quite entertaining though  a bit weird even sinister. It promoted the underlying cleche of "longivity" associated with wellness, yet begins like all modern day Wall Street movies,  portraying highly motivated, foul mouthed stock brokers plying their underhanded and minipulative trade. In the meanwhile their senior  upper-management is intent on suckering some young rookie into taking the fall for insider trading, before a merger can take place. 

But then the movie takes a drastic turn from the modern to the old and mundane, which is set on the estate of a wealthy Baron that doubles-up as a sanatorium at the foothills of the Alps in Switzerland. 

The occurrences at the sanatorium is basically a pretext to wellness, practiced on people who have achieved "great things" in their lives, who has no-one who cares for them nor have any reason to leave the sanatorium, especially considering the moto of the sanatorium is "nobody leaves". The movie has that German Dr. Hitler human experimental theme to it, where ignorance is the enemy of science, the results of which would be exclusively enjoyed by the elite.