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Plot explained [SPOILERS], and two questions asked [?]
Skrevet af HAL 9010'STAFFMOD d. 4 july 2017 kl. 7:15 AM
The Doctor had invented a method, a “cure”, to distill a life essence from his unsuspecting patients, who would slowly become weaker and weaker (loosing teeth etc.) to the point where they would eventually end their lives as fodder to the eels living and thriving in the underground water reservoir of the Sanitarium. This water, in turn, was an integral part of his “cure”.
This “cure” was essentially slowing down ageing.
He had done so for the last 300 years at least, meaning he and his peps were 300 years old or older.
Under the cover of a fancy pants sanitarium he would keep on getting fuel for his essence. Read; wealthy old people would keep on joining unsuspectingly.
He had once been burned severely (300 years ago) by angry mob-villagers and so had found a way since to make a humanoid looking mask for his face.
On top of this, he was obsessed with keeping his bloodline clean and so kept his sister captured so he could procreate with her. 300 years ago when the angry villagers had burned him, they also burned and killed his sister. Though, their unborn daughter survived her mother’s death partly because the fetus was dumped in the water reservoir (which had heeling properties that he later (or already did) would use in his “cure”). This baby is the girl we meet. In other words, she had been slowly aging over the last 300 years to become a teenager by the time we enter the story. And apparently this whole situation is unknown to her. Or she was kept in the dark. Since The Evil Doc is still obsessed with keeping his bloodline clean, he planned to procreate with her once she had had her first period.
Our hero unveils all this and rescues the girl just in time. And in the process, his actions kill the Doctor and burn down the Sanitarium. He and she escapes, and he also tell his boss off and so escapes the corporate life he lived before. Now a free man, perhaps for the first time in his life.
Role credits.
My two questions:
QUESTION 1: Water tanks. We see patients suspended n water tanks, apparently dead. However, we also see our hero in one and he survived. And so I ask what was this about?
I assume it was part of the distill process. Getting the patients ripe, perhaps? But normally, they should be dead as no oxygen were administered to them while underwater. I guess, I am answering this myself, as the magic healing water is… well magic. So this was all part of the process of getting them ripe for harvesting.
QUESTION 2: When he confronts the Doc in the dining hall, it results in all the patients rallying around him as almost zombies. What was that about?
We know they were kept in the dark and in this sense they were normal and innocent, and so I struggle with understanding this. Anyone, can help?
Svar af perelachaise
d. 22 july 2017 kl. 8:31 AM
+10e10
Apparently it's the elixir's process that makes them that obedient, sheepish ; but this side effect is never explicitly mentioned.
All we have as "evidence" is : rebel MC, once forcefed the eels, also goes into zombie mode until Hannah gives him his mother's Balerina and he magically gets his wits back, how touching
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I find it already hard to believe that "NOBODY ever leaves the place" with what we're given to see, but like you, that they act like a hive/herd to defend the place is beyond me ; they are nothing more than eel fodder after all. Maybe I missed something though.
Svar af vishal8492
d. 29 july 2017 kl. 3:17 PM
Yeah, seems uncanny everyone is so clueless.
Svar af HAL 9010'
d. 31 july 2017 kl. 9:24 AM
Yes, this is a somewhat acceptance of being a sheep. Though still only hints at something to profound as the zombie attack. In fact most of the patients we experience are pretty much by their own mind though most of the movie and so the restaurant scene would make better sense if only a few of the dammed would act all hive like.... so really this part is perhaps just poorly told and nothing more.'
Hmmm, I can see how they are slowly getting weaker and weaker and so simply at one point loose their will to question or rebel. Not that unlike many old homes, I dare add. At first they go for a cleanse thinking this is a great place to rest and at first probably they do feel improvement etc.... once someone has been fed to the eals, then to everyone else this someone has gone home. No-one the wiser.
Svar af gooner73
d. 24 september 2017 kl. 1:24 PM
There's one giant plothole that also hasn't been addressed. All the patients are titans of industry, ceo's of giant multinational businesses or just super rich. They all come to this place to be cured, but not one of them ever leaves. No bodies returned to family. Now if it was poor people. The faceless with no power, i can see how the doctor gets away with covering up the fact that no one leaves and dies there. But surely the fact it's the millionaires and billionaires, after a while. Wouldn't it get noticed. I know the doctor made a comment that they have no one. But surely if your super rich. Surely the fact that no one is heard from again would start to raise red flags. Even if you have no family, being rich means that you have very powerful lawyers that don't want you to disappear otherwise they can't earn anymore money off you
Svar af HAL 9010'
d. 24 september 2017 kl. 4:07 PM
Totally. His system seem doomed to fail. Though, the good thing about being a titan at the top is that it is cold there. And we can imagine they towards the end of a "stay" begin to take care of the paperwork for their puppet clients. When I think about it; this movie is then that our hero is an example of these "lawyers" you speak about and here we see what they did: They have them committed too, signing a waiver and even have him cut connections... difference is that it did not work this time around and so this is perhaps is what this movie is actually about?