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Time spent watching films, even crappy ones, is time well-spent.

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    Post dates are when I watched, parenthetical dates are the year of US release (aka Oscar eligibility).

7/20/2006

Stay (2005)

I couldn't figure out what was going on through most of this movie and was obviously being prevented from doing so -- something that usually drives me NUTS. Rather than frustrating me, however, the movie became like an intricate puzzle: this piece snicks here, that one there -- and then the inevitable "wait, that can't be right" feeling right around the bend.

There's that old example of the confusing and ugly piece of needlepoint, with knots and threads going every which way, that needs only to be flipped over to the right side. Once you're looking at it from the proper perspective, it becomes beautiful and cohesive. This movie is exactly like that. To explain how would be to ruin it.

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