A Cure for Wellness (2016)

Jason Isaacs: Volmer

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Quotes 

• Volmer : Do you know what the cure for the human condition is? Disease. Because that's the only way one could hope for a cure.

• Lockhart : She's your daughter!

  [Hannah looks in shock at Volmer] 

  Volmer : You think she's better off in your world?

  [peels back the skin off his face] 

  Volmer : Let me show you what the outside world is capable of!

  [Hannah screams on seeing his badly burnt features] 

• Volmer : You're quite right - the water is toxic unless it's purified properly. That Baron's only problem was using unwilling subjects. We've come along way in the past two hundred years. Now, we have plenty of willing volunteers seeking to cure themselves of the ills of the world.

  Pembroke : [brainwashed]  I've never felt better in my life.

  Volmer : [to Lockhart]  You see? Why would anybody want to leave?

• Volmer : Most of my patients have done extraordinary things. Built vast fortunes, commanded great empires... but at a terrible cost. They have no one who cares from them.

• [last lines] 

  Volmer : Everything I've done has been for her!

  Hannah : Dad? Dad!

  [Volmer looks round to see Hannah smash a shovel into his skull] 

• Volmer : [from the trailer]  Accept the diagnosis... You'll soon see... it's wonderful here.

• Lockhart : [waking up in hospital bed]  I need to call to New York.

  Volmer : I took the liberty of informing your office of the accident, if that's you concern. They agreed with me that business can wait, and your health cannot.

  Lockhart : Hank Green said that?

• Volmer : [eating in the cafeteria with his patients]  And do you know what we used to recommend for the common stomach ailment? The application of leeches. Based on the diagnosis, I always pitied the leech.

  [laughter around the table] 

• Volmer : [as the orderlies strap him down]  It's all for your own safety Mr. Lockhart. We don't believe in chemical anesthesia at the institute. The impurities inhibit the cure. But, with the proper focus, the mind can overcome any amount of pain.