A psychiatrist is assigned to a suicidal art student when the boy's regular therapist has a breakdown, and finds the case has metaphysical as well as psychological dimensions. Neatly done psychological thriller is well scripted (up until the final revelation) and is likely to im... ...( read more )
Very interesting, but I didn't actually understand the full meaning of it until I looked up someone else's explanation of it on another site. I did like it though, especially now that I know what it all meant!
Marc Forster is another filmmaker that falls into the category of visual onanist, though his style has served him well in other works, here is almost irritating, besides the story doesn't help a bit.
A multicoloured, nice looking artsy cinematography (if only was handled with mea... ...( read more )
Part thriller, part mind-bending absurdity, it will definitely leave you scratching your head. Works best as an intellectual cinematic essay on the veiled subject at hand (and a director-driven art film at that), rather than as a narrative drama. No matter how flawed it may be, i... ...( read more )
Forgot Marc Forster directed this...a very clever movie that I think a lot of people write off as pretentious...I recommend it.
Stay is a lot like fine wine. If you don't like it, then you REALLY don't like it. But if you like it, then you appreciate it for it's beauty. This is exactly how this film is.
Stay is a thought provoking film that most people won't actually understand , but those who do ca... ...( read more )
Henry Letham: I burned myself.
Sam Foster: You burned yourself? Why?
Henry Letham: Practicing for Hell.
Standing in for a sick colleague, renowned New York psychiatrist Sam Foster is confronted with disturbed art student Henry Letham. Seemingly inspired by his idol, a ... ...( read more )
This had some very interesting camera and lighting work. I really did not understand what was going on, although I did enjoy the acting. Now that I have read some other explanations of what the heck it was about, I understand. It was a very interesting artistic film, but not o... ...( read more )
Ponderous film is somewhat challenging to watch, but its provocative plot twists will compel to you find out what happens next.
Another movie that could've been much more if the result didn't explain everything. (Though "Stay" has one or two parts that aren't exactly disclosed.) It treads on very familiar territory even if aspects are different.
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This movie was absolutely amazing. The story, the film, the representation of the disintigration of sanity...it's all tragically gorgeous. And at the end, when you figure it all out, contemplation of the story only makes it that much more wonderful.
very interesting.. i was somewhat confused throughout the film, but at the end it explains it all.. very sad
"You Can't Stay Between the Living and the Dead"
Standing in for a sick colleague, renowned New York psychiatrist Sam Foster is confronted with disturbed art student Henry Letham. Seemingly inspired by his idol, a painter infamous for committing suicide on his 21th bi... ...( read more )
Stay is a bright, ultra-polished implosion of a psyche dressed as a thriller that does not play by the usual genre rules-- Foster's oniric approach may remind you of several other directors' influences (think heavy-handed Lynch peppered with the velvety feel of Wong Kar Wai, in f... ...( read more )
Eh, so I was looking for a short movie to watch and I had this. I'm now going to give away some spoilers, so don't continue reading if you don't want to spoil it............................................................................................ Ok, so the first 1 or 2 mo... ...( read more )
bello bello questo thriller psicologico, bella la storia, bello il modo di indagare, e davvero belli (anche se sembra una boiata) i cambi di scena! fatti bene bene!
I knew Stay was directed by Marc Forster, the man who made Monster's Ball and Quantum of Solace. However, it wouldn't have surprised me to see David Lynch's name somewhere associated witjh this film. Stay is the kind of dreamy, hallucinatory surreal motion picture that takes plea... ...( read more )
This movie didn't get much publicity when it was released and I think that a lot of people missed out on a great movie because of that. This movie bends reality and makes you think the entire way through. It follows Henry Letham, played by Ryan Gosling, and Sam Foster, played by ... ...( read more )
Henry Letham: I burned myself.
Sam Foster: You burned yourself? Why?
Henry Letham: Practicing for Hell.
Stay - You Can't Stay Between the Living and the Dead..
A reality-bending thriller about a psychologist whose suicidal client makes bizarre predictions that, to the psychologist's mounting terror, begin to come true. The shrink must race against time to save every... ...( read more )
This film is edited in such a brilliantly strategic and complicated way that many will watch it twice and see how everything from the set-design to the editing already makes a pretty strong allusion to the ending. It's extremely fascinating to watch. I loved it.
I seem to have got into a habit of picking seriously confusing films, this being one of them. Another one I'll have to watch again.
A real puzzler, how to rate a movie that still makes no sense? I lost sleep the first night in confoundment over what actually happened to no avail. So the bigger question is, wherein lies the value of cinema? Is it in the experience or in the understanding?
I'm a logical per... ...( read more )
An overlooked movie which deserves more recognition. Brilliant performences and a truly memorable... trippy film.
This could have been an amazing movie... but it fell short on a number of levels. [SPOILER AHEAD] Notably, the timeline you're eventually asked to accept doesn't make any sense unless you infer that Henry and Sam are the same character in some delusion, which isn't played out. Th... ...( read more )
