I think he is having a near death experience but is not aware that he is actually dead which explains the disjointedness(refer to stay) and why some of the people who are present at the accident site and hospital are in his "dream" or "hallucination" which is what the majority of the film really is and in the end when he accepts that he is dead the film ends.
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Agreed...I'd go so far as to call it a rip-off, and that's a term I tend to find mis-applied and overused. It applies here, because the unique and very specific twist of incorporating people present into everyday visions is duplicated exactly. I liked the score here, but everything else was better executed in Stay. A pale imitator, indeed.
Edit: THIS was the earlier movie? Oh...that just sucks. Because I didn't enjoy the ending to this (since I'd seen it done before), and now it seems clear that the writers of Stay must have ripped this off.
i don't think it has anything to do with a rip off, it's a pretty common structure. stay wasn't a pioneer either.
Hugh Jackman + Patrick Wilson
http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=7846412
Yes, there are several movies that turn out to be the final puzzling thoughts in a dying brain. While these movies can be quite good, the final truth is a bit of a disappointment because it can explain away just about anything.
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"Shake your hair girl with your ponytail"
"the unique and very specific twist of incorporating people present into everyday visions is duplicated exactly".
This was brilliantly done in Powell and Pressburger's masterpiece "A Matter of Life and Death" (1946), bizarrely and misleadingly entitled "Stairway to Heaven" in the USA.
In fact, that movie, revered by most cineastes and many great directors, is the origin of many of the ideas used in subsequent "hovering between life and death" movies.
More generally, the great original of all mindscrew movies with a final twist which turns everything on its head is "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1921).
Anyone seriously interested in movies should endeavor to see those two classics.
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You mean "'Stay' is like 'The I Inside'"! Check out the release dates and consider that this is based on a play.
Adrift in time, so to speak, preceded both films, as has been stated elsewhere.
(W)hat are we without our dreams?
Making sure our fantasies
Do not overpower our realities. ~ RC