‘A Cure For Wellness’ shocks viewers

Of all the movies released so far in 2017, “A Cure for Wellness” could possibly be the strangest of them all.

Directed by Gore Verbinski, who previously directed the first three “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies, “A Cure For Wellness” starts out in the New York City business world with young businessman Lockhart (Dane DeHaan) getting into a bit of trouble. As a result of this trouble, he is sent off to retrieve a colleague from a wellness center from atop a hill in the Swiss Alps. Lockhart intended to just bring the guy back to NYC briefly, but after an accident leaves him stuck there to recover, he begins noticing some strange things around the wellness center. The center begins to resemble a peculiar retirement home until Lockhart meets a teenage “special case” patient named Hannah (Mia Goth). As his curiosity increases, Lockhart begins to discover that things at this “wellness center” may not be going as well as they seem.

This film certainly wasn’t one of the best-sellers in the box office, but it really should have been. Although this movie proved itself very strange in more ways than one can count, it was also so good and so interesting. The movie was full of plot twists, scary science and large philosophical questions. It’s a movie that provokes thought and a movie that begs questions of our society today.

“A Cure for Wellness” really has something for everyone,no matter how strange that something might be,and it’s really worth giving a watch.