As an audience, I still involuntarily follow the rhythm of the story to find the logic and clues that may not originally exist in the story itself, until the truth is revealed. My understanding is that Henry’s strong guilt (another guilt complex) and desire to survive after the car accident caused his brain waves to affect other people at the disaster site, forming a spirit similar to the meditation world through shared experiences and infections. Symbiont.
In this world, it is not surprising that anything happens. The entrance to the connection between reality and the meditation world is Henry, and the chronological order of the appearance of the two world characters is completely parallel: the sound of ambulance horns and wind when meditation world is the sound Henry heard on the viaduct where the incident occurred when he was dying; Sam was shot from an upward-looking angle because Henry, who was lying on the ground in reality, viewed him from an upward-looking angle; the passing mother and son, the nonsense of the mentally ill, and the voice of Sam on the phonograph were all recurrences of reality.
Looking at it the second time, it may be that I have accumulated more experience in watching psychological suspense and psychoanalytic films, only to find that this explanation is not deep enough. Henry's parents and girlfriend died immediately in the car accident. Henry witnessed all this with his own eyes and felt guilty and hoped that he could be forgiven. So the whole story-Henry's dream is unfolded with forgive as the core. Laila mistakenly called Sam's name Henry. Sam saw the ring that Henry's girlfriend dropped in the car accident at the bottom of the ladder. Laila saw the canvas filled with Henry's name and the words forgive, and stared at Henry's father going to heaven. The door. All of these imply that the psychiatrist Sam and his girlfriend Laila in the dream are actually Henry himself, and the transformation of the characters conforms to the operation mechanism of the dream. The other people appearing in the dream are all bystanders at the scene of the car accident.
The purpose of Henry's appeal to Sam for help was to seek relief from guilt in a hidden way. With the help of Sam (that is, Henry himself), he was forgiven by his parents who had died and resurrected. In addition, the dream also fulfilled Henry’s several wishes: I hope his girlfriend will change the fate of being killed in a car accident without knowing him, and I hope my life can be continued on Sam and Laila, and I hope that through the 21st birthday Before committing suicide and saving other people's lives. It is worth mentioning that Beth Levy, the first woman to arrive at the scene of the accident and repeatedly emphasized that Henry did not move, was broken down into two people in the dream: Levy, the doctor who abandoned Henry, and Beth, Sam’s patient, Suffering from mental breakdown.
At this point, I have to mention Mulholland, who is a classic of psychoanalytic films, also describing dreams, one is dreaming because of death, and the other is death because of dreams. It is also about life, death, will, and hope. In comparison, Stay is much simpler and easier to understand. A few days ago, I watched a mechanic. The reality is intertwined with suspense. Movies of this kind are my favorite. I must be able to shoot without the extraordinary skills of screenwriters, directors and editors.
It’s just that there seems to be a question at the end of the film. Since Sam and Laila are Henry’s self-projections, why do they remember the dreams in reality? It seems that the interpretation of the meditation world is reasonable again. Or as Henry said, the whole world is in a dream. When we take a bird's eye view of the entire viaduct from Henry's perspective, who can say that reality is not just a dream presented to us by the ten directors.
Borges proposed a model of the universe created by dreams in "Ring Ruins." The universe is a dream of the magician, or he is a dream of the universe. Dreams and dreams are nested together again, like two opposing mirrors creating an infinite number of worlds. In the film, the director takes the audience into an infinite and chaotic maze, while the audience helps the director finally complete this open dream.
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