Stay
2005 Directed by Marc Forster
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After a car accident on a bridge, psychiatrist Sam Foster assumes the case of the survivor Henry Letham, who apparently torched the car and promises to commit suicide three days later. Sam decides to investigate what happened with Henry, and feels he is losing his grip on reality with his findings. He asks his girlfriend Lila to help himself to stay lucid, while trying to solve Henry's case.
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Entertaining head-scratcher with some really top-notch visuals and a decent cast.
Ewan McGregor (with distracting American accent and even more distracting half-mast trousers) is a psychiatrist who takes on the case of Ryan Gosling's student, who claims he is going to kill himself three days later. McGregor, with the aid of girlfriend and former patient Naomi Watts attempt to stop this from happening.
It sound like a hackneyed idea, until the investigation starts getting weirder, and weirder still. In all honesty, the disquieting visual techniques and recurring motifs of tesselated floors and ceilings and Escher-esque staircases (my better half suggests this ties in with Jungian theories of psychoanalysis. I suspect she may have something there) distract from a plot that…
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I liked it better when it was called "Jacob's Ladder".
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Δεν ήταν κακό. Ο Gosling δεν τα λέει. Τα παμε τα συμφωνήσαμε. Αλλά εδώ είναι πιο κοντά στο indie τυπάκι που θα μπορούσαμε να ερωτευθούμε από ποτέ. Η σκηνή στο bar είναι δάνειο-απλήρωτο-από τον Lynch, αλλά ας όψονται οι Massive Attack.
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Was zum... während dieses Films hat sich mein Hirn ziemlich gut unterhalten gefühlt. Die Ausgangssituation ist schon leicht verstörend: Ein Kunststudent kündigt bei seinem Psychiater einen Selbstmord in 3 Tagen an. Aber was dann passiert wird immer seltsamer, bis man sich fragt, ob das alles noch real sein kann. Wer ist hier verrückt? Und was geht wirklich vor sich?
Ich lasse mich gerne verwirren. Nicht umsonst zählt Lost zu meinen absoluten Lieblingsserien. "Stay" macht seine Sache gut und liefert einem dabei auch noch optisch einige Leckerbissen, wie zum Beispiel sehr schöne Szenenwechsel. Und erfreulicherweise hat die teilweise schon sehr schräge Optik sogar einen Sinn, denn sie passt zur Auflösung.
Ja, die Auflösung... solche unverständlichen Filmen brauchen ja immer irgendeine Art…
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Dude, how do you mess up a movie with this kind of cast? I had no problem with any of the performances, they we all great, but something went very wrong with the plot. Nothing made sense by the end.
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Sharply edited and visually dazzling, a great cast, and an intriguing story that flashes before your eyes;
lacking some emotional resonance throughout, but with my interpretation of it all that may change when I eventually rewatch this;
with a constant in place I think even more fulfilling flashes will be found.
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exp-3*, story, reviews, cast!, (director Forster/1, writer Benioff/1).
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"‘Stay’ is een typisch voorbeeld van een artistiek uitgangspunt – in dit geval ‘meervoudige perceptie’, dat commercieel onuitvoerbaar bleek. Een spooktrein van een film was het gevolg."
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It's one of those films where the credits roll and I look puzzled and say 'what?!' . I can't say that I enjoyed it.
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Little known (i.e. I'd never heard of it) smart psychological thriller which deserves to be seen by more people.
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This movie was pretty much a complete piece of shit and a bit of a cheat as well, I hated the ending. With such a good cast and Marc Forster behind it I had expected far more. The only reason I wanted to watch it to begin with was Naomi Watts so I was disappointed to find that she's actually not in it that much. The editing is horrible and I hated all the stupid transitions between scenes. It felt like some newbie just playing around and using that trick all the time. Didn't get anything at all out of watching this movie, except regret of having seen it but I had to so that I could continue to make my way through Naomi Watts filmography.
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Entertaining head-scratcher with some really top-notch visuals and a decent cast.
Ewan McGregor (with distracting American accent and even more distracting half-mast trousers) is a psychiatrist who takes on the case of Ryan Gosling's student, who claims he is going to kill himself three days later. McGregor, with the aid of girlfriend and former patient Naomi Watts attempt to stop this from happening.
It sound like a hackneyed idea, until the investigation starts getting weirder, and weirder still. In all honesty, the disquieting visual techniques and recurring motifs of tesselated floors and ceilings and Escher-esque staircases (my better half suggests this ties in with Jungian theories of psychoanalysis. I suspect she may have something there) distract from a plot that…
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Δεν ήταν κακό. Ο Gosling δεν τα λέει. Τα παμε τα συμφωνήσαμε. Αλλά εδώ είναι πιο κοντά στο indie τυπάκι που θα μπορούσαμε να ερωτευθούμε από ποτέ. Η σκηνή στο bar είναι δάνειο-απλήρωτο-από τον Lynch, αλλά ας όψονται οι Massive Attack.
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A puzzle, in part, but not completely. The meanings in puzzles are enclosed within clues, but here they are expansive. The film operates with a dream logic, but ultimately registers more as a spiritual and psychological epiphany... still with modest results. Good cast, great score, unevenly successful transitions and an arresting and angular visual style are its virtues. In any case, I prefer this to the much-hyped 'Inception'.
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Really impressed by this. Very weird, bit creepy, ultimately great. Impossible to discuss without spoiling things though!
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I liked it better when it was called "Jacob's Ladder".