The film focuses on the attempts of a psychiatrist to prevent one of his patients from committing suicide, while trying to maintain his own grip on reality.
As a basic interpretation, it is clear that someone is in the process of dying or has died, presumably Henry Letham. Throughout the movie, Henry hears voices which are later revealed to be the voices of people surrounding him while he is dying. All the characters in the film, in fact, turn out to be people surrounding him as he dies. Accordingly, we can assume the entire movie is in actuality happening in Henry's mind as HE dies.
This is supported when Leon miraculously gains sight, and declares that the world is an illusion. Henry is obsessed with a fake artist by the name of Tristan Reveur, reveur being French for dreamer.
The movie leads up to the moment of truth, where he is either being judged, judging himself, or must make a choice. When the movie finally gets to the car accident that fatally wounds him, the entire world becomes very visually unstable, until he dies. The world becomes relatively clear again, although some blurriness is still apparent. Notably, during this final scene, Sam is revealed to indeed be a doctor of some sort (not necessarily a psychiatrist). This would suggest that whatever went on in Henry's subconscious, the real world was interwoven into that reality. This is further supported when Henry dies and Sam, who shouldn't have any notion of what Henry had envisioned during this whole film, has brief memory flashes of times spent with Lila. In Henry's world, Sam and Lila were a couple. But in the "real world", Sam and Lila met only while trying to save Henry's life after the accident.
2006-06-10 09:15:31
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answered by mhongreen 3
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It's a movie that u have to see more then ones I didn't get it either
2006-06-10 16:31:46
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answered by Anonymous
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