ewan mcgregor and naomi watts, couple years old now but I needed to wartch something in hotel tonight and seen nearly everything else on sky anytime so was a panic last minute download last night before I went to bed.

I have no fucking clue what it was about and what happend, if anyone has seen it could you please explain to me wtf happened. Either its a genius piece of movie making that went about 1000 miles over my head or its a complete pile of shit that makes no sense at all

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It is a truism that film, as a photographic medium, intrinsically resists the psychological. In the hands of a less gifted director, this would have been equally true of STAY, despite its overt plot in which a professor of psychiatry struggles to find a psychological clue in order to prevent a young artist from committing suicide at a precise time and location the artist has planned.

But without altering this plot as written, director Marc Forster has invented an editing style (combined with a rigorous control of transitions and point of view) to create nothing less than a parallel plot to the film, in which the professor must contend with the horror of his own descent into full-blown psychosis.

Since the director conveys this parallel plot entirely through visual means, and within the point of view of the hero of the story, its consequences are all the more disconcerting, and we feel the terror of the realization of losing one's mind more acutely than in any previous screen depiction of madness I have seen.

Much as the young artist's psychotic identity implicitly consumes the identity of his psychiatrist, so does the visual plot consume the overt, written plot of the film, like an unconscious motivation that overcomes a conscious one. By succeeding with such an ambitious design, Forster has invented a new kind of film in which the psychological, in all its frightening depths, finally becomes visible.

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Problem is that's what the movie starts out as, but then the last 5 minutes change everything and you find out that only one of the chars exists and that the story is total bollocks. Its very much like life on mars in a way only with that the story was left in a way that you still weren't 100% sure which was reality (though the common theory is he died) with stay though its just totaly pointless. But people do seem to think its really good so maybe I missed something

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Yeah the ending kind of spoilt it for me a little as I recall - although I can't remember that much about it now. Was a nice use of colours, and certainly different, but perhaps once you need to watch twice.

How did Life on Mars end?

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Probably global warming.

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http://www.futt.org/

Dr Who turned up and took him to the real mars in 2073

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