A business trip that was only supposed to last a day ends up being a much longer stay with unexpected turns.

A Cure for Wellness, directed by Gore Vebrinski (The Ring), was a roller coaster of plot twists and confusion. There was a universal message of mental health behind the story line, but it didn’t stay consistent throughout the whole plot.

The movie starts out with imagery of a large gray city, showing luxuries that don’t have life to them. It sets the mood for the movie and gives the viewer an idea of what to expect.

The main character is a young and ambitious company executive, Lockhart (Dane DeHaan). He is sent to a wellness center in the Swiss Alps to bring back the company CEO Roland Pembroke (Harry Groener) who is a patient at the center.

As Lockhart arrives at the eerie wellness center, there are polished people in white robes playing games of croquet and eating brunch. It’s a disturbing utopia.

All the patients are successful, powerful, and old, yet because they have dedicated their entire life and energy towards their successes, they have ignored their health and mental state of mind.

The film shows that in this generation, people overwork and are striving for social hierarchy, putting aside their well being.

As the film moves along and more characters are introduced, it’s apparent that the movie is going in a different direction than what the viewers originally thought.

When Lockhart meets Hannah the “special case” (Mia Goth) and Headmaster Volmer (Jason Isaacs), there are new secrets uncovered about the treatment facility.

Volmer and Hanner are searching for “the “cure” — not for the patients, but for themselves, and the patients are being used to produce the cure.

The treatment of hydrotherapy that’s introduced at the beginning is the ideal symbol of purity, water. It is then ironic that the water is what is causing the sickness to the patients.

The poisoned water is a symbol of perceiving wrongful actions as pure. These successful CEOs and business leaders once had the power to do more harm than good.

There will be a strange feeling left when walking away, and even some unresolved confusion.

It’s not a bad movie, but at the same time it is not a masterpiece.

Movies are supposed to make the viewer feel something. This film induces emotions, even if the majority of those emotions are uncomfortable.

No matter what genre appeals to the viewer, “A Cure for Wellness” is going to reel them in. In the most grotesque way possible, it’ll make them want more.