Who is the director and the actors of the movie STAY 2005?
Stay(2005) is an intricate American psychological thriller movie directed by Marc Foster. It stars Ewan McGregor, Ryan Gosling, Naomi Watts etc.
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- Who is the director and the actors of the movie STAY 2005?
- Plot Analysis STAY 2005:
- Ending Explained STAY 2005:
- Memorable quotes and dialogues STAY 2005:
- Vocabulary:
- Similar Movies :Mulholland Drive(2001) Best Ending Explained
Plot Analysis STAY 2005:
Dr. Sam Foster has slept right through the alarm clock. Lila wises up, she was looking for him. Today, Sam will be working as a substitute for Dr. Levy. Henry, who was taking therapy from her, has no idea about her leaving as he wasn’t in touch with her.
She passed him off to Sam, Henry takes it personally. He thinks she might be afraid of him that’s why she passed his case to him. Sam asks him why he torched his car. Henry doesn’t remember. All he remembers is a torched car when he wakes up. He didn’t mean to hurt anybody.
Henry is in a metro rail and a girl recalls him as a psych of Professor Azzopardi who did a presentation on psychosis. An old man on the train tells him not to smoke as smoking is prohibited on the train. He burns her hand with the cigarette as he insists.
Sam returns with her girlfriend Lila when a hailstorm takes place. He calls Levy since he needs to discuss Henry’s behaviour. Sam is astonished because Henry predicted the hailstorm but it was a sunny day. How come he knows that? Although Lila thinks he might know from the weather update. But there was no such update.
Next day, Henry says he is hearing voices. Sam gives him a notebook to write down the words.
‘I didn’t move him. I know you aren’t supposed to move ‘em. I can’t watch anymore. Stay with me, Henry. Stay with me.’
Sam sees Henry burnt himself to practise before going to hell. He is gonna go to hell because he will commit suicide, Saturday midnight. Sam tells him so calmly that as you have told me, I am gonna take certain actions. Henry forbids him to do that because they still have three days to discuss it.
Sam feels tense hearing someone is gonna commit suicide. He tells another doctor who has just admitted a black girl. He tells him they should admit him into this hospital. At home, Sam examines Lila’s tablet that he prescribed her. Lila gets the tense vibe from him and ensures he can share everything with her. He shares Henry is gonna commit suicide and it scares him.
Sam calls Levy again but she is still out of reach. Sam goes to Henry’s college to know why he has chosen Saturday to commit suicide. Is there anything special about the day? He gets the answer. It’s his 21st birthday. The tradition is to go out and get drunk but Tristan started a different tradition. He died and that influenced him.
Sam asks about parents but he didn’t know they weren’t alive. But Henry has a girlfriend who is a waitress of a diner over on Canal street. She always asks how he is doing and he was gonna marry her but she is gone.
We see Henry in front of an underwater aquarium and an old couple telling, ‘he isn’t gonna make it’. Sam confronts Lila that she stopped taking her pills. Lila can’t paint on meds. Lila reminds him something calling him Henry that Sam hears. Actually he is hallucinating.
Leon and Sam are playing chess. Meanwhile, Henry comes and addresses Leon as his father but Leon doesn’t know him. Henry says he is his father. Sam comes to Henry’s home to search her belongings but finds nothing except some bullets. Other doctors request him to watch his back while looking for him because he carries a gun. Conversely, Henry is standing in front of a fountain and a child says,
‘Mommy, is that man gonna die?’
It is true that Sam has never stood where Henry is standing right now but Sam treats people everyday with conditions he has never experienced himself. Lila wants to talk to Henry to motivate him saying, ‘There is too much beauty to quit.’
Sam meets Levy and It seems Levy is so sick Sam takes her to the bathroom to get her a shower. Sam gets to know from Levy that Mrs Letham, Henry’s mom, is alive. He contacts her.
Henry’s mom behaves like Sam is Henry. She addresses him as Henry. Mrs. Letham says Henry did something because he hates her. Mrs. Letham expresses her ardour to have him near her. She says,
‘I know you never meant to hurt us.’
After that we see her head bleeding. How it starts bleeding doesn’t seem normal. When Henry insists on seeing the wound, Olive, the dog, bites him on the hand. While he is taking treatment, Sheriff Kennelly meets him and says there is no one, named Mrs. Letham at 9625 Rickover Street, is alive. He knows Mrs. Letham, and also went to her funeral.
Nevertheless Sam frequently tells she has severe head injury, she needs treatment. She had the bluest eyes in town but whom he talked to had brown eyes.
We see Henry is in a bar, smoking cigarettes. In this nasty bar, he is seeing his whole life flashing in front of his eyes. Teardrops soak his face. Sam comes over Henry’s house again and notices the same ‘piano and balloon’ thing happening in front of his eyes. He asks them if they were there on Thursday. They get so irritated and tell him to bother someone else.
Sam gets to his home and Lila is so worried about him since he wasn’t home for some hours. He tells her he is seeing things and talking with dead people. Something is happening with her. Nothing makes any sense. Lila calms him down and lies him down. When he wakes up, he sees Henry. Sam wants him to say how he can tell the future.
Sam finds every diner in canal street to find Athena and he experiences a hallucination of Athena instead of really finding her. Henry goes to Leon and seeks forgiveness from him. When Henry hugs him, he gets to see everything clearly.
Sam calls Lila and asks,
‘Tristan Reveur killed himself on his 21st birthday, right?’
Today is Henry’s 21st birthday. Tristan shot himself on the Brooklyn Bridge. He said it was the best artwork of the 19th century. Sam says whatever happens tonight, she should know he loves her. Then Lila notices some artwork with ‘Henry Letham’ and ‘forgive me’ upon them. That means Sam actually hallucinating Henry and doing everything that Henry is supposed to do.
Leon comes to Sam and says he can see everything. Sam doesn’t understand what is happening with them. Leon says,
‘Buddhist said that the world is an illusion.’
Sam reaches the Brooklyn Bridge and meets Henry. Sam asks what is happening around him. Henry assures him telling Sam is real. He is trying to save him but it’s too late. Then he shoots himself to death in front of Sam.
Ending Explained STAY 2005:
In the first scene, we see that Henry sits beside a car which is torched up. Henry who was going with her girlfriend, mom and dad. But he had an accident on the Brooklyn bridge. Sam’s car was just behind his car. Sam, Levy and Lila, who is a nurse actually, all of ‘em tries hard to keep him alive.
They tell him to stay and motivate him so that he doesn’t feel guilty. Henry keeps uttering ‘forgive me’. He proposes to Lila assuming her Athena. After a few minutes, he dies.
Before death, people see his whole life flashing in front of his eyes. He keeps seeing it as a dream and that dream includes everyone around him.
Memorable quotes and dialogues STAY 2005:
‘Does it make you uncomfortable that I am filling in for her?’
Sometimes shrinks transfer their hard cases to other doctors. They don’t understand that it makes the person who needs mental help and support, vulnerable. They should act more liable to their cases.
‘He is not gonna make it.’
When Henry was alive, no one believed in him except his parents. There was no one other than his parents with him. And they died because of his carelessness. That’s why he can’t forgive him and keeps saying, ‘forgive me’.
When Sam met Levy who wised up,
‘She didn’t touch him.’
It meant she was feeling guilty thinking she might be guilty of pushing their car. That’s why she keeps saying that.
Vocabulary:
Pro Bono
Do something without charge.
Take It Personally
Get offended by it.
Torch your car
Set fire into the car.
