Stay

Yes, I too am Henry Letham crying in a strip club while smoking a cigarette. Real talk, this movie is so well crafted and makes you think. It throws random curb balls at you, hints to the ending, is confusing overall, and I love it for that exact reason. Random things happen, and you think “what the hell does that mean” and it doesn’t hit you until you’ve finished watching it. In my opinion, I the 3 days until Henry’s planned suicide attempt, and Sam desperately trying to save him was in actuality 3 minutes, hence why Sam was rushing to find Henry and save him. The middle of the movie is Henry taking in his surroundings and imagining his life without his girlfriend and parents, due to them dying in the car crash. Everyone in his dreams were bystanders either helping him or staring at him in his last moments, and his brain added them into his memory to try and make sense of everything that he had just experienced. One of my favorite scenes was when Henry walked into that room with those walrus’ and stares at them with a sadness in his eyes. They swim around, and form what look like to be wings around him, like they knew he was dying. This especially hits hard because when Sam goes to talk to Henry’s mother, she says how Henry loved the aquarium, and how his favorite thing was to watch the walrus’ swim. It’s like Henry was seeing his most cherished memory before his life flashed before his eyes. This movie does have a few plot holes such as: why was Henry’s name on all of those paintings, why was Sam and Henry hinted at being the same person through parallels, how did the blind man suddenly see again, and much more. Despite that, I still loved this movie. loved the ending because it gave a harder emotional hit, rather than if it were at the start of the movie. Overall, this is an amazing, complex, confusing movie and I’m going to be rewatching it again soon.