What is this movie about? This is a classic suspense movie. Why does it feel so messy?

Superficial plot: Sam, a psychologist, successfully saved his current girlfriend, the art teacher Laila, from the brink of suicide. One day, Sam took over an eccentric patient Henry from a colleague. He is an art student. After several conversations, Sam found that he could predict the hail without warning, the conversations that haven't happened yet, and the contents of the note taken from the convenience food. Henry's idol is a painter who committed suicide on Brooklyn Bridge in19th century. He also claimed that he would commit suicide in the same place on 2 1 birthday, that is, three days later. With the deepening of Sam's treatment of Henry, strange things keep appearing. The colleague who treated Henry had a nervous breakdown. He met Henry's mother, who should have died, and learned that she was very willing to get back together with Henry. Henry's father was blind for a long time, but he regained his sight under the drive of some mysterious force. The girlfriend Henry is going to propose seems to have nothing to do with Henry. The neighbors downstairs carried the piano day after day ... When the deadline came, Sam found Henry on the Brooklyn Bridge, which seemed to be shrouded in spinning. After experiencing a series of strange things that can't be explained, Sam can't be sure whether the things around him, himself and Henry are true or not. Everything seems to be contained in it. Henry shot himself, and at that moment, the whole world was twisted and over. What actually happened: The content of the movie after the dream makes us roughly guess what happened. Henry is a young man whose birthday is about to be 2 1. He prepared a ring and planned to propose to his girlfriend on this day and get back together with his parents who had a bad relationship. When they were driving happily across the Brooklyn Bridge, the front wheel of the car suddenly burst and the whole car lost control in an instant. His parents and girlfriend died on the spot, and Henry was seriously injured and dying. At this time, the psychological doctor Sam and the nurse Lila, both passers-by, rushed up to try to save Henry's life, only to find that Henry was dead. From the last few minutes of life to death, Henry could not die peacefully. His heart is full of guilt. He thinks that his parents and lover lost their lives because of their mistakes, so he chose to stay, stay between life and death, and create a dream to make up for his mistakes and eliminate his guilt. This dream is the "story that happened on the surface" that we saw before. Sam and Lila, who are trying their best to rescue him at present, and the people watching the car accident are all brought into this dream by him. When Henry committed suicide in his dream, his life came to an end in reality. After fulfilling his dream wish and no longer feeling guilty, he was finally able to stop hovering on the edge of life and death and die calmly. The connection between reality and dream: In the dream, Henry becomes an art student who wants to commit suicide like his idol, Sam becomes the only psychologist who can help him, and Lila becomes Sam's girlfriend. As a woman who committed suicide, she also tried to save Henry who wanted to commit suicide. The first middle-aged woman who rushed to the scene of the car accident but didn't treat Henry became a colleague who dumped Henry to Sam in her dream. Onlookers-white-haired old man, Asian man, middle-aged bald man, a mother and son, etc. -all played a role in the dream. The director hinted at the connection between dreams and reality in many details. Generally speaking, dreams, like Mulholland Road, represent deep expectations and desires that cannot be realized in the real world. 1, Sam and Lila are two people who tried their best to save Henry at the scene of the car accident. In Henry's eyes, they looked at themselves head to head, so Henry imagined them as the only couple who could help him in his dream. At the end of the scene, the woman who arrived at the scene first replied to the police that her name was Levy, so Dr. Levy appeared in the dream. Because in dreams, Henry has the ability to predict the future. Perhaps this represents his prediction of the future in the real world, so as to avoid the tragedy of car accidents. 4. The development of events in the whole dream is synchronous with the gradual death of Henry and the gradual blurring of consciousness in the real world. So at first, the dream was clear and orderly (Henry was conscious when he was in a car accident), and then there were many triplets (the consciousness began to overlap and phantom appeared). Then Sam came back from Henry's mother and pushed the door open repeatedly when he entered the room (consciousness began to appear repeatedly). Finally, the Brooklyn Bridge (consciousness was distorted and blurred) was shrouded in spun yarn, suggesting that the whole story happened in the consciousness of Henry in the last few minutes before he died in a car accident. 5. In the last shot, the Brooklyn Bridge gradually opened in the shot, showing a sling with an approximate parallel grid, which may lead to the fact that the building in Henry's dream is composed of parallel lines. 6. There are many dialogues and actions in the dream that are abrupt. Henry said that his parents had passed away and were recorded in the file, but Sam saw Henry's parents again. The scene of the neighbor raising the piano and the child's balloon flying into the air appears day after day, suggesting that the plot is happening in imagination. The owner of the second-hand bookstore suddenly pointed to Henry's painting and asked Sam, "Do you think he can do it?" Sam replied, "Yes, he can." This painting shows the Brooklyn Bridge, suggesting that Henry wants to avoid accidents on the bridge. 7. In the dream, Sam's trouser legs are always very short. This is because when Henry saw Sam after the accident, Sam was squatting beside him, so his trouser legs were higher. Sam kept shouting "Henry, stay with us" in reality, and this voice appeared on Henry's phonograph in his dream. Henry's ring fell to the ground at the scene of the car accident. In the dream, Sam fell on the stairs and the ring fell out. 9. I repeatedly mentioned alcohol and medicine in my dream. At first, the female secretary in Sam's office called and said that wine and medicine could relieve her pain. Laila came home and said, "Do you know I'm waiting for this day? I am waiting for a drink. " . Later, when Sam found out that Lila didn't take the medicine on time, he was very worried. Asian doctors in mental hospitals said to female patients, "It won't be like this if you take medicine on time." . The film does not explain the connotation of these plots, but it can be speculated that this is what Henry hopes can help alleviate his mental pain. 10. The black woman said at the scene that "he is just a child". In the dream, she was a patient in a mental hospital and repeatedly shouted this sentence when she was sick. 1 1. In the dream, Laila said to Sam, "Tell me that I am great" and "Tell me that the world will remember me". These are all the words that Henry wants to hear. At the end of the dream, Sam said to Henry, "Look at the world around you. This is a dream and the whole world is in it. " . Maybe that's what Henry wanted someone to tell him, telling him that the car accident was just a nightmare. 12. In the dream, Henry's father saw his eyes again, his mother forgave him, and his girlfriend hardly knew him (so that he wouldn't die in a car accident later). These are all the satisfaction that he expects from his heart. On his deathbed, Sam told him that the car accident was not his fault, and his nurse Laila became his girlfriend. He asked, "Will you marry me?" After getting a positive answer, Henry left this world contentedly. Looking back, I think that in this world, a person is either alive or dead. Besides, are there any other states? When a person is "dying" in the medical sense, what is his mental state at the moment and what is the content in his consciousness? Why should a person live? This is a question that never has an answer. Why does a person not want to die? This is a question with countless answers. But can you believe that at the last moment before death, a person will not leave this world because of guilt and desire for forgiveness? This is staying, staying between life and death. I should have left this world, but I didn't want to let go because of my inner fetters. "Is that hell?" No, it's just a lamp. Yes, this is just the satisfaction of inner desires. An unforgivable soul can only fall into hell in endless regret, and the next stop after the soul is freed may be heaven. This is a dream, and the whole world is in it. And our world always contains countless dreams. The hardest forgiveness actually comes from your own heart. In fact, the story and connotation of the above analysis is only one aspect of the reason why this film makes me so admired. As the director said: "The purpose of making Stay is to break some common storytelling methods in design, photography and editing-to bring the audience to a boundary where it is impossible to judge truth and illusion. This film provides you with a new way and perspective of perceiving existence. "