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"Can you imagine hating your life so much that you'd wanna bring a backup razor?" - Lila Culpepper

Stay
They say your whole life flashes in front of your eyes before you die. They did not tell you that for the last few minutes before you slip into eternity, everything slows down. You feel an unforgivable guilt. You cry the depressing fear. You search for questioned answers. You slip into an alternate universe. Where everyone is you. But not you. But is you. There are doublets and triplets. People coming and going, saying senseless and random things. Everyone feels what you feel. There is tension hanging in the air. A tension you cannot cure but to pull the trigger and wake yourself up.

Stay is immaculately depressing. The modern furniture arranged so insanely perfect. The pills you count before you go to sleep. The paintings you hang to see sanity through unexplainable strokes. The melancholic piano. The crying guitar. End the movie and be sad for sadness' sake. Cry. Why. Cry. Cry. Kill yourself.

25th Hour
This is the first movie I have seen set after the 9/11 incident. It has an eerie opening sequence where all you see is streams of lights flowing along with one of the best composed (by Terence Blanchard) theme song for a movie. The lights are the symbol of the WTC that lit up every September 11.

Characters unfold. When faced with moment that they cannot get out of, the strong becomes the meek, the friends become the foes, the quiet becomes the guilty, the assured becomes the confused. It feels like dying of cancer. Fair warning. It does not do anyone any good. What is there left to do but wait for the day to arrive. You can do everything to live the day "normally". But that is not going to change anything.

DVD rentals: Quickflix