"Life and Death Stay" I come to interpret the dream (Spoiler Shen Jin)

Marques 2021-12-11 08:01:38

Published: July 16, 2006,


15:23, Stay (2006)



First quote a story from someone else. Brief introduction:
Sam, as a psychologist, has helped many mentally ill patients and brought them back. Into the lives of normal people. However, this time he really encountered the troublesome patient Henry Rasam. Henry is a student at the nearby Ivey Union University. He had good grades, but gradually became decadent, and threatened to commit suicide within a few days and go to another world.
In order to save Henry, Sam decided to take a more effective treatment, but after a subtle in-depth and understanding, he found that Henry had joined a terrible suicide organization. But the strange thing is that there are often many strange phenomena in Henry's mind that are difficult to understand and explain with science. Henry himself often made some terrible predictions, and in a short period of time, his terrible predictions were confirmed one by one. This has increased Sam's courage and confidence in solving all mysteries. Among them, Sam's girlfriend also gave him great help and support. However, at this time, the terrifying facts that Henry predicted were still happening in the city one after another, and they had gradually endangered Sam's beloved, in order to save Henry and save everything he loves, including this city. Sam tried his best to start a desperate struggle against inexplicable forces...

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"Life and Death Stay" also mixes dreams and reality. I can say that I understand it completely. I just express my opinion



based on my own understanding . The real situation of the film is like this:
Henry in real life was driving on the highway with his parents and fiancee, but unfortunately he was in a car accident. As a result, both his parents and his fiancee were killed in a car accident, and Henry was seriously injured. The careful care of him by the medical staff reminded him of the care and warmth of his family. At the same time, he blamed himself for the death of his family and loved ones by driving carelessly, and entered a dream state in a semi-coma (also a kind of self-consciousness). Think of it as a process of atonement).





Back to the beginning of the movie-the movie started with a car accident, and then the next shot was a man standing at the scene of the car accident. The scene was in a mess, with a burning scrap car behind him. And this man is Henry, and in the next shot Henry becomes the doctor Sam.
(Henry drove into a car accident and entered a dream after surviving. Sam in the dream is actually Henry. I will say in detail below. At this time, he has entered a dream.)



At the psychology clinic, the doctor Sam asked the patient Henry. Henry asked where the female doctor who took care of him was. At the same time Samson asked him why he burned the car, and Henry said he couldn't remember anything.
(Henry disguised himself into two identities in his dream, one is Sam and the other is his true self. He dare not face himself, so he asks and answers himself. "Burning the car" means he hopes this is not a car accident. This is a kind of escape and relief from causing the death of a dummy. He said "I can't remember anything" and he also hopes to try to forget this memory.)





Sam's girlfriend Lila told Sam a joke, "In a In an empty place, a farmer was motionless. The king pointed at him with a shotgun. The farmer said, "I am not a reindeer. I am not a reindeer." The king shot and killed the farmer. ''The king said,'I thought he said I was a reindeer.'" Then Sam said, "Am I the king or the farmer?" His girlfriend said, "You are the reindeer."
(The king killed the farmer but Believe that he heard it wrong, in real life Henry drove his parents and his girlfriend to death, also hoped that his parents and his girlfriend would not blame him. And the sentence Sam said in the dream is meant to show that Sam wants to die and become that. The farmer is not the king. Rather than killing his family and loved ones by himself, it is better to die. The sentence of his girlfriend is: "You should have died". So it also appeared in the film later Henry Thoughts of suicide.)




Henry met the blind old doctor who was playing chess with Sam and said that he was his dead father. And Sam insisted that the man was a senior doctor in the hospital. Even though the old doctor was blind, he felt that he didn't know Henry.
(Actually, this is because Henry didn't want his father to die, let alone his own death, so the "father" in the dream became blind. He couldn't see Henry, and he also thought that Henry had admitted wrong. This It was actually an escape from Henry not daring to face his own fault.)


Finally Henry cured the eyes of the old blind doctor, the old blind saw the light again, and the old blind thanked Henry very much in his heart.
(Henry hopes that he can revive his father and be forgiven by his father.)


Sam meets Henry's mother and a big dog that died in Henry's family when he was 12 years old. My mother kept saying: "I'll cook for you", and then blood was left in her head. The big dog bit Sam's arm again.
(This is Henry's escape from his mother's death, so he also pretends to be Sam. His mother has always wanted to cook for him, saying that Henry's mother has always cared for him very much, and it is because of this that he has a deeper sense of self-blame. "The mother's head is not lingering blood but still wants to cook for Sam." This is Henry's fantasy-even if the mother is in a car accident, she still doesn't blame her son and still wants to help her son. But the mother was killed by his own car. Hate himself, so in the dream, the big dog bit Henry's arm [Hen used his arm and hand to drive, so the big dog bit his arm].)


Sam saw a pair in the aquarium, reflected in the shadow of the glass Old couple, the husband said to his wife: "He won't do it."
(Sam hopes that everyone around him believes that the death of his family has nothing to do with him. The death of his parents and fiancée is not his fault, and he will not do anything to hurt them. )


There are Henry's paintings hanging in Sam's office and home, as well as his girlfriend at home.
(This means that Sam is Henry originally, he has been living in his own world. It also shows his hopeful future with his fiancee.)


In a conversation, Henry told Sam that he had lost his girlfriend Athens. The ring that Na proposed. He saw the same ring in Sam's office. Sam said: "I didn't take your ring."
(Henry lost the ring, but he actually lost his girlfriend. He killed his girlfriend, so Henry, who was self-blame, used Sam in his dream. Asking and answering, thinking that it was not the girlfriend who killed him [also use the ring to represent the girlfriend])


In the film, a mother takes her child and passes by near a moving company. The child falls and the balloon flies away. This same thing happened twice, Sam experienced exactly the same situation twice.
(This is Henry's hope that if the time of the car accident can happen again, he will not let his family die again. But Henry knows that this is impossible, so the same scene will show up again.)

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Stay quotes

  • Henry Letham: An elegant suicide is the ultimate work of art.

  • Lila Culpepper: You know, the day I did it, I took two razorblades to the bathtub. You know why? Because I knew that once I started to bleed, I'd get weak. And I didn't wanna drop one blade and leave myself half done. Can you imagine that? Can you imagine hating your life so much that you'd wanna bring a backup razor?