Stay

2005 "Between the worlds of the living and the dead there is a place you're not supposed to stay."
6.7| 1h39m| R| en
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Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.

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Btexxamar I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.
Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible
HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.
Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.
bluesheep-61428 Ok so this film came out and was instantly panned by critics and misunderstood by audiences, but I recently watched this film and was pretty underwhelmed until the very end... BAM the whole film gets turned on its head and I instantly rewatched it, trying to analyze and pick apart everything. If you take the time to really take it in and appreciate the masterful directing and editing I think people will be able to see that the film is amazing. I'm going to spoil some of it now so don't read past this if you want to feel the insane head spin of a film on your own. The film is entirely the dream of Henry as he dies from a car accident. He is taking in his surroundings and incorporating them into his dying dreams. The editing and directing of the film is reflective of the inconsistency of our dreams, and as the film goes on it gets weirder because of Henry's brain giving away. At the end of the film you see what happens in real life, Ewen Mcgreggor and Naomi Watts are the people on the scene trying to take care of him after his tire blows out on the Brooklyn Bridge and he gets into a serious car accident, killing his almost fiancé and his mother and father, and leaving him feeling guilty as he slowly dies and takes in his surroundings. In the dream he incorporates the people who are standing around him in real life as well as the things they say in the real world. The dream is also his way of dealing with his feelings about his life and his guilt as he's dying. Towards the end of the dream he starts to know he is dreaming and wakes up. There are bits and pieces of the end of the film littered within the film itself and it's rather brilliant.
Smoreni Zmaj I don't even wanna try to write anything about this movie. Cast, acting, directing, colours, complexity,... I'm speachless...8,5/10
Majikat Whilst the subject of the film is pretty melancholy, the surreal, illusion style, mind twisting plot is one of a kind and draws you deeper to its final conclusion. I love this style of character by Ryan Gosling and it's nice to see that this is one is rarely raved about find.
dianeseattle If you spend the time to watch this movie from beginning to end, hoping for a brilliant resolution to an extremely layered plot, you will be disappointed. I found this movie completely vapid, after promising to be brilliant. The production designers made a gorgeous work of art with all kinds of nods & winks included, a busy background of suspicious distractions to draw our attention away from the fact that nothing makes sense. Even if this movie is some kind of study in overlaps between waking & dream states, it never delivers anything. Everything is beautiful, from Ewan McGregor to Naomi Watts to Ryan Gosling to Janeane Garafolo to NYC to the architectural chess set. It's all vacuumed & coiffed & shined up & cheated with special effects to make it all the more glossy & glimmery. But what promises to be a never-before-conceived-of psychological thriller ends up being a pile of unresolved detritus. Don't get your hopes up. Submerge yourself in the shiny pretty sets & clothes & pictures. That's all there is here.