Review of Stay (2005) by Tom J — 10 May 2008
Stay if you like movies with some solid acting and great cinematography. Leave if you expect psychological thrillers to be thrilling or to make much sense. Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling anchor this movie with some solid performance.
This was one of the most visually interesting movies I have seen in a long time. it begins by viewing a crash from the perspective of one of the wheels. Often one scene visually tumbles into the next.
The movie is about a psychiatrist (Ewan McGregor) subbing for a colleague who takes on the case of a patient (Gosling) who hears things, can predict the future and plans to kill himself at midnight Saturday.
Beyond that I don't have much clue about what the movie is about. Why is the psychiatrist first confused for and then essentially becomes the mental patient? Why is the patient claiming a living person is his dad and why is the psychiatrist interacting with the patient's mother and dog who are both dead? Why are there so many twins among the bit players? Why are scenes repeated and why do people suddenly disappear from scenes? And why the heck does the psychiatrist have pants that are three inches too short? The ending does provide some answers to these questions, but by the time I got the answers I didn't care much about the questions.
This review of Stay (2005) was written by Tom J on 10 May 2008.
Stay has generally received positive reviews.
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