SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

I enjoy a lot of psychological thrillers, and this one was really confusing. Why is the movie called Stay? What was the big twist at the end? I don't get it, it opened with him in a traffic accident on the golden gate bridge and ended there, but I don't understand the big secret that connects with the middle parts of the movie. How is Henry's father alive and playing chess blind with the psychiatrist and how did the psychiatrist save Henry and why did a lot of scenes repeat themselves? This movie was boring and had no suspense at all.

I watched the movie 8 years ago and still cant forget this movie. I watched it over 10 times and still there are details here and there that are actually WORTH be seen. I appreciate putting so many details in a movie. That means they put a lot of efforts to make the movie. Anyway, it's the main concept that is amazingly get you stunned through the whole movie which is ironically simple. 'Near death experience' is not the exact words I like to describe it with, but there are almost no other words to explain it with. It is a journey that Henry( Ryan Gosling ) is having with bunch of people standing near him(while he is dying) with a sense of guilt and looks for forgiveness basically. From the beginning of his journey, everything that is happening is a projection of what is happening around him. For example, Dr Levy is is handing Henry to Sam ( Ewan Mcgregor ) which is exactly happens in reality when Sam gets to Henry after the accident. But not everything projects as it is happening around Henry to his dream. For instance, Lila gets there and speaks with him when he is dying but we do not see them encounter with each other in the dream. The performances are great. The music is brilliantly colors the movie and visual effects are stunning have play a big role in story telling. To sum up, Stay was a great experience which stays with you after even watching the movie and makes you think about it for a long time.

Stay is a psychological drama directed by Marc Foster that stars Ryan Gosling as Henry Letham, Ewan McGregor as Dr. Sam Foster, Naomi Watts as Lila Culpepper and Bob Hoskins as Dr. Leon Patterson. This film is a film that explores the art of filmmaking and is incredibly underrated. I undoubtedly loved this film the first time I saw it even though I was incredibly confused at first but as soon as I started to dive deeper into this film the more I started to respect the artistic choices it made in terms of the way it told the story, the characters and the directing also. At first this film may seem terrible and very pretentious and tries too hard but this film has so much to offer and doesn't baby feed you and tells you what to think like most films with a psychological edge or twist. We dive into the mind of a depressed, suicidal artist who seems to be very isolated and driven to serve some sort of purpose he has set for himself. He reaches for people, ideas and fantasies that he could not manage to overcome in reality, he found a father figure in a dream that did not exist and found something that he could not find in reality.This film got a lot of bad reviews on its initial 2005 release which confused me as this film warrants more than at least a 6 out of 10. This film is for those who have an open mind and are willing to go into this film expecting nothing and wanting to experience something new and engaging. This film was really interesting the first time I viewed it and I found Ryan Gosling's performance mesmerizing to say the least. Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts in this film at first seem flat and don't really seem to be trying much in the film when you first see it not really aware of what is happening, but when you start to put things together you suddenly realize this films unique, smart, captivating and daring approach to filmmaking and storytelling through the visual medium. This film is hard to talk about without spoiling it because of its initial incoherent and muddled up way of telling the story of a young adult who is going through a lot of grief over something he has done to people he cares about, he is contemplating suicide and strange events happen all through this film that create a surreal experience for the viewer especially towards the very end when the story slowly starts to unravel. This story all seems to be taking place in his mind as characters appear and disappear at random times, the transitions seem almost dream like and feel out of place and the people within this dream like state he is in do not act like normal people in a normal universe as towards the end Ryan Gosling's character (Henry Letham) cures his dead father of blindness, sounds incredibly confusing but it all makes sense as it is not really happening. Ryan Gosling's character feels grief over killing his girlfriend and parents in a car crash and goes through his death contemplating what he has done in this dream world where he confronts Ewan McGregor's character. You can feel our main characters suffering and you can understand why he is so heartbroken over what he did, you can tell he deeply regrets the mistake he has made and now wants to find a way to forgive himself within this dream like state by conjuring up these people who we later on find out do not really exist but only exist within his mind.When we are shown his last moments after the crash, we start to realize everything as Naomi Watts's character is mistaken for Ryan Gosling's girlfriend in the film as he is confused and is unaware of the situation which is why in the dream there are flashes of Naomi and his girlfriend merging, same goes for Ewan McGregor's character as since Ryan Gosling's character created him, he loses his sanity, believing he is Henry (Ryan Gosling), this lack of identity is prevalent all through the film and starts to make sense. The ending answers a lot of questions as it all flows quite nicely and wraps things up in a concise and logical manner that leaves the audience satisfied but curious as to what it all meant. This film makes you think and question the characters and the world in which the story is set in as you think what we know as reality and what we see as truth, lack of identity and the feeling of fear and confusion. Towards the end of the film he shoots himself which wakes him up from his dream and we see he is injured from the car crash that we continuously see flashes of in his dream and find there is a crowd gathered around him and every character we met along the way are all in this crowd, including Ewan McGregor's and Naomi Watts' characters as well which explains why there are various times where we see flashes of car crashes, moments where characters randomly say things that don't make logical sense and the story isn't told in the right order but everything starts to make sense towards the end. The 'plot' changes when you get to the end so there is no point telling you the initial 'plot' as this film is very smart and merges two stories very well. This film is masterpiece and many people overlooked it and seems to be getting the recognition it deserves. If you want a film that makes you think and want to think deeper about characters and the story then watch this film, It is worth your while.

A spectacular movie, to say the least. One of those movies that leave you wondering about the true meaning of it after the screens roll. A good material for brainstorming and crafting different ideas of what really happened. In my opinion, it is not enough to only give this movie a single viewing to somewhat come close to catching all the bits, it needs more attention.In my opinion, the whole movie was just Henry's last illusions/dreams between his life and death, he imagined it all in a glimpse and crafted all of these different situations in his head, while laying there on the road, dying. It throws you off at moments and makes you create different ideas, which i really enjoyed. For me it was somewhat clear after a good 1 hour and 20 minutes into the movie, well, i think i was correct with my opinion about what it was about, but i guess it can always be viewed from a different perspective, that is why this is such an amazing movie. Love how it is not chewed up and presented as a blatant and predictable story, this movie really makes your brain work and even the most experienced psychological thriller fans will be brainstorming after watching this. I absolutely loved the transitions of scenes, was made to look just like in a dream, at least that's what i figured.In my opinion this movie has a rating of only 6,9, because most people just don't like sitting through a movie just to end up not getting what it really was about or they don't like to really think about what happened, either way, not everybody likes to think while watching a film, some people just want to relax and enjoy their time. So don't pass this movie, just because the rating on IMDb is not particularly stellar.