Hell's Hospital is a thriller film directed by Brad Anderson and co-starring Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturges, Ben Kingsley, michael Kane and others. The film has a big reversal plot, which makes people think deeply about its meaning.
The film is based on Poe Poe's short story "The Therapy of Dr. Tal and Professor Fisher," which tells the story of a psychiatric doctor who falls in love with a beautiful female patient. On Christmas Eve 1899, Edward Newgate, a graduate student at Oxford University School of Medicine, was killed by Jim Scott. Sturgis) comes to Stone Harlister Psychiatric Hospital. He has been interested in these suffering souls since childhood and aspires to learn clinical experience here. Silas Lamb (Ben. Dr. Kingsley was happy to share his knowledge and ideas, taking Edward on a tour of the hospital and proudly introducing the staff there and the patients in his care, all of whom were almost playing together and no longer locked up in a cell. Among them is the beautiful Eliza Graves (Kate. Beckinsale), who abhors the intimate behavior of others and accompanies violent behavior, once poked her husband in the eye, which allowed her to obtain permanent residency here. One night, Edward heard the sound of metal tapping from the vents of his bedroom, and he followed the sound to the dark cellar where Benjamin Souter, the true director of the mental hospital, was locked up.
It turned out that the patients of the psychiatric hospital, led by Silas Lamb, drugged the dean and the nurses, stole the dean's position, and put the real dean and nurse in an underground cell. This is the first major reversal of the film, and it seems that because the mentally ill people do not like the dean Benjamin Sauter to water them, electric shock and other treatments, but Silas Lamb is the most victimized. After their successful uprising, Cyras Lamb became the Dean and the Murderer became the Defender.
Edward finds his flaw through Cyrus Lamb's case and tries to drug the psychiatric people of the Christmas party, but is found. After Silas Lamb electrocutes Dean Benjamin Sauter and turns him into a demented man, he threatens to electrocute Edward again. At the crucial moment, Edward asked him to pull out a photograph in his coat pocket, and as soon as he saw the photograph, he immediately fell ill. It turned out that he had shot and killed five wounded while he was a military doctor, and he was impressed by the last wounded, and that picture was the picture of the wounded man whom Edward had found in his cell where he was hiding deeply. The beautiful Eliza Graves frees Edward, who turns Cyras Lamb into an idiot.
Together, Edward and Eliza Graves freed the doctors and nurses in the dungeon and let them take over the insane asylum. Edward and Eliza Graves go on a high-flying life and live happily ever after, when the film takes a second big turn.
The real Dr. Edward brought Eliza Graves' husband to the lunatic asylum and took Eliza Graves out of the hospital, and the head nurse who asked the madman to do something said that Dr. Edward had approved Eliza Graves' discharge. And the real Dr. Edward said that he was Dr. Edward himself. The so-called young Dr. Edward was his patient, a liar, who fell in love with Eliza Graves, who was also the subject of the experiment, so he stole Dr. Edward's identification materials and pistol, as well as a pocket watch containing Eliza Graves's photograph, pretended to be Dr. Edward, and went to the insane asylum.
The second reversal makes it seem that the skillful disguised Dr. Edward is the real master, and the brutal treatment of the real Dr. Edward and the dean does not seem to be the right way.
Psychotherapy should be emotional healing, which can be combined with drugs, but it cannot be blunt and barbaric, which will cause the patient to rebel. The rebellious madhouse is just like an abnormal social ecology, full of abnormal things, and the crazyhouse that has been rectified has restored humanity and harmony, but the person who corrected the chaos is also a madman! Such a big reversal really makes people think about it for a long time.