Sam is a psychiatrist who once successfully rescued his current girlfriend, art teacher, Laila from the brink of suicide. One day Sam took over an eccentric patient Henry from a colleague, who was an art student. After several conversations, Sam discovered that he could predict hailstones without warning, conversations that hadn't happened yet, and the contents of a note taken from the convenience food. Henry’s idol was a painter who committed suicide on the Brooklyn Bridge in the 19th century, and he also claimed that he would commit suicide in the same place on his 21st birthday, which is 3 days later.
As Sam's treatment of Henry deepened, strange things kept appearing. The colleague who had treated Henry had a mental breakdown. He met Henry's mother, who was supposed to have died, and learned that she was very willing to reconcile with Henry. Henry’s father, who had been blind for a long time, also regained his vision under the drive of some mysterious force. Henry’s proposed girlfriend did not seem to have much to do with Henry. The neighbors downstairs were hoisting the piano day after day... When he arrived, Sam found Henry on the Brooklyn Bridge, which seemed to be shrouded in silk. After a series of unexplainable strange events, Sam could no longer determine whether the surroundings, himself, and Henry were real. , Everything seems to be included in a dream. Henry raised his gun to commit suicide, and in that moment, the whole world twisted and ended.
fact:
Henry is a young man who is about to celebrate his 21st birthday. He prepares the ring and plans to propose to his girlfriend on this day, and he reconciles with his parents who were at odds with him. When they drove across the Brooklyn Bridge with joy, the front wheel of the car suddenly burst and the whole car instantly lost control. His parents and girlfriend died on the spot, and Henry was seriously injured and dying. At this time, the psychiatrist Sam and nurse Laila, who were also passers-by, rushed up to try to save Henry's life, but found that Henry was dead. Within a few minutes of dying from life to death, Henry was unable to let go of his life calmly. His heart was full of guilt. He thought it was his fault that caused his parents and lover to lose their lives, so he chose to stay. Between life and death, a dream is created to make up for his mistakes and to eliminate his guilt. This dream is the "story of release on the surface" that we saw earlier. And Sam and Laila, who were trying their best to rescue him, and the people watching the car accident, were 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 wish in the dream and no longer guilty, he was finally able to stop staying on the edge of life and death and head toward death calmly.
Connection:
In a dream, Henry became an art student who wanted to commit suicide like his idol, Sam became the only psychologist who could help him, and Laila became Sam’s girlfriend, as a suicidal person who had experienced suicide. The woman also worked hard to rescue Henry who wanted to commit suicide. The middle-aged woman, who first arrived at the scene of the car accident but did not treat Henry, became the colleague who dumped Henry to Sam in a dream. The onlookers at the scene-white-haired old man, Asian man, middle-aged Xieding, a mother and child, etc., all played a certain role in the dream.
The film hints at the connection between dreams and reality in many details. In general, like Mu Holland Road, dreams represent deep expectations and desires that cannot be realized in the real world.
1. Sam and Laila are the two people who tried to rescue Henry at the scene of the car accident, and they were looking at him head to head in Henry's eyes, so Henry imagined them as the only couple who could help him in his dream.
2. At the end of the scene, the woman who arrived at the scene first answered the police that she was called Levy, and Dr. Levy appeared in her dream.
3. Because he is in a dream, Henry has the ability to predict the future. Perhaps this represents his desire to predict the future in the real world, so as to avoid the occurrence of car accidents.
4. The development of events in the entire dream is synchronized with the process of Henry's gradual death in the real world and his gradual blurring of consciousness. So the dreams at the beginning were clear and organized (Henry who had a car accident in reality was still conscious at this time), then there were many triplets (consciousness began to overlap, phantoms), and then Sam from Henry’s mother When I came back there, I opened the door repeatedly when I entered the house (the consciousness began to appear repeatedly), and finally the Brooklyn Bridge was shrouded in fine yarn (consciousness had been distorted and blurred), implying that the whole story happened in the last few days before Henry died in a car accident. Minutes of consciousness.
5. In the last shot, the Brooklyn Bridge gradually stretched away in the shot, showing a sling similar to a parallel grid. These lines may cause the buildings in Henry's dream to be composed of parallel lines.
6. There are many dialogues and movements in the dream that are very abrupt. For example, Asian doctors stretch their mouths to drink the water from the tap, maybe this is Henry's habit in reality. Henry said that his parents were dead and recorded in the file, but Sam saw Henry's parents again. The scenes of neighbors lifting pianos and balloons with children flying into the air day after day, all of which imply that what the plot shows at this time is happening in imagination. The owner of the second-hand bookstore suddenly pointed to Henry's painting and asked Sam "Do you think he could do it?" Sam answered "Yes, he can". The painting shows the Brooklyn Bridge, suggesting that Henry hopes he can avoid a car accident on the bridge.
7. In dreams, Sam's trousers are always short. This is because when Henry saw Sam after the car accident, Sam was squatting next to him, so the trousers were relatively high.
8. Sam kept shouting "Henry, stay with us" in reality. This voice appeared in the phonograph of Henry's house in the dream. Henry's ring fell to the ground at the scene of the car accident. In his dream, Sam fell on the stairs and the ring fell out.
9. Wine and medicine are repeatedly mentioned in the dream. At the beginning, the female secretary in Sam's office called and said that alcohol and medicine would relieve her pain. Laila returned home and said, "Do you know what I am waiting for this day, waiting for a drink". Later Sam found out that Laila didn't take the medicine on time and was worried. The Asian doctor in the mental hospital said to the female patient, "If you take the medicine on time, it won't be like this." The film does not explain the connotation of these plots, but it can be speculated that this is Henry's hope that something can help alleviate his mental pain.
10. A black woman said at the scene, "He is still just a child." In her dream, she was a patient in a mental hospital, and she yelled these words repeatedly when she fell ill.
11. In the dream, Laila said to Sam, "Tell me I am great" and "Tell me the world will remember me". These are the words Henry wanted to hear in his heart. At the end of the dream, Sam said to Henry, "Look at the world around you. This is a dream. The whole world is inside." Maybe this is what Henry wants someone to say to him, telling him that a car accident and so on are just a nightmare.
12. In the dream, Henry's father regained his eyesight, and his mother forgave him. His girlfriend almost never knew him (so that he would not die in a subsequent car accident). These are the satisfaction of his inner expectations. As he died, Sam told him that the car accident was not his fault, and the nurse in his eyes, Laila, became his girlfriend. He asked "Will you marry me?" After receiving a positive answer, Henry Leave this world contentedly.
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