Stay is a 2005 movie starring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling.

Ryan Gosling is a brilliant actor. I have yet to see his latest caper, Lars and the Real Girl, but in this one, he plays a Henry Letham (his last name being an anagram of Hamlet - the Shakespearean character from which this film takes inspiration), an art student who wants to commit suicide on his 21st birthday and calmly tells Ewan McGregor’s psychiatrist character about it.

The whole story is about how Sam (Ewan) tries to persuade Henry not to kill himself as if suicide were a supreme work of art while Sam himself is losing his grip on reality.

I don’t quite understand the film fully but it vaguely suggests the theme of life being but a dream. There was a heart-stopping moment when Henry suddenly somehow becomes a Christ-like figure by restoring sight to this blind man played by Bob Hoskins whom Henry claims is his dead father. This wasn’t Henry’s only power. Apparently he can foretell the future and warp reality too.

The film’s a little thrilling and mind-bending but it isn’t like Fight Club or Vanilla Sky. But the acting of Ryan Gosling and Naomi Watts redeemed this picture.

Stay, Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling, Lars and the Real Girl, Fight Club, Vanilla Sky

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According to my Chinese friend, the fish closely sounds like ’surplus’ in his language, so it’s supposed to symbolise having more than enough / abundance / prosperity. Can anyone tell me what the Chinese characters mean, though?

And yes, feel free to dissect my personality from the arrangement and choice of icons that I placed on my desktop.

Paul Laffoley is the modern day Leonardo Da Vinci.

He artfully blends architecture, metaphysics, esoterics, futurism, biology, ecology, etc, to design such potential inventions as a time machine, an actual habitable house that can be grown from a seed like a plant and the harnessing of new, yet-to-be-discovered forms of energy (beyond those we now conceptually know).

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Paul Laffoley, Leonardo Da Vinci, time machine