Stay

2005

Director: Marc Forster

Distributor: Fox Movies

Key Elements: Visuals – Lines – Concept

My Review:

In the spirit of the Twilight Zone, this movie keeps you guessing until the very end.

Sam is trying to help his newest patient Henry, who is planning to commit suicide. Henry, brooding and tormented, talks of the guilt he feels for something he has done, his desire for the girl he loves and the agony of seeing his parents though they are dead.

You won’t pick up on it the first time you watch it, but the movie’s resolution is creatively foreshadowed with loaded imagery throughout.

A thoughtful and artistic movie - Always an incredible watch.

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Quotes:

• If this is a dream, the whole world is inside it.
• Do you know the Tristan Rêveur quote about bad art? It's "bad art is more tragically beautiful than good art 'cause it documents human failure."
• An elegant suicide is the ultimate work of art.There's too much beauty to quit.

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