Good start, but then it gets ruined

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Ok so this film came out and was instantly panned by critics and misunderstood by audiences, but I recently watched this film and was pretty underwhelmed until the very end... BAM the whole film gets turned on its head and I instantly rewatched it, trying to analyze and pick apart everything. If you take the time to really take it in and appreciate the masterful directing and editing I think people will be able to see that the film is amazing. I'm going to spoil some of it now so don't read past this if you want to feel the insane head spin of a film on your own. The film is entirely the dream of Henry as he dies from a car accident. He is taking in his surroundings and incorporating them into his dying dreams. The editing and directing of the film is reflective of the inconsistency of our dreams, and as the film goes on it gets weirder because of Henry's brain giving away. At the end of the film you see what happens in real life, Ewen Mcgreggor and Naomi Watts are the people on the scene trying to take care of him after his tire blows out on the Brooklyn Bridge and he gets into a serious car accident, killing his almost fiancé and his mother and father, and leaving him feeling guilty as he slowly dies and takes in his surroundings. In the dream he incorporates the people who are standing around him in real life as well as the things they say in the real world. The dream is also his way of dealing with his feelings about his life and his guilt as he's dying. Towards the end of the dream he starts to know he is dreaming and wakes up. There are bits and pieces of the end of the film littered within the film itself and it's rather brilliant.

There are some movies that arrive from time to time that confuses people but this movie was not one of them, although the people who do not understand it say so. The reasons to watch it right now are 1) It's screenplay and direction is admirable 2) The Performances are shivering 3) It surprises you from time to time 4) It's an under rated flick you have to seeand if your heart has understood this movie, you cry at the end, shut your laptop or wherever you watch it and smile. Because that is the motive of any artist in the world.This movie will stay with you. forever.

This movie is so underrated, it is a really really brilliant movie! It's really sad that not a lot of people know this movie, I myself just watched it a week ago. It's super confusing, the plot is unbelievable, I just love it! All the actors did a really good job, I really couldn't understand what was going on in this movie, I was trying to figure it out but everything didn't make any sense to me, so I couldn't find an answer. Even after the last scene, I was still trying to understand the movie.And I couldn't. And this is why I said this movie is brilliant, you have to watch it twice or pay a really good attention during the movie to understand it completely. I googled the movie plot after I watched it because TBH I was still confused. And when I found out, I was so surprised and I just thought this movie is really a masterpiece.

Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling) survives a car fire on the Brooklyn Bridge. Dr. Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor) substitutes for Dr. Beth Levy (Janeane Garofalo) to treat Henry. Foster's girlfriend is artist Lila Culpepper (Naomi Watts). Henry suggests that he may kill himself. Dr. Ren (BD Wong) is willing to commit him before his scheduled suicide. Henry talks about waitress Athena (Elizabeth Reaser) whom he supposedly is going to propose to. There are constant flashbacks to him driving Athena. He claims that Foster's blind colleague Dr. Leon Patterson (Bob Hoskins) is his father.Director Marc Forster's visual style gives off a cold disturbed feel. The whole surreal effect is a bit slow. It's an interesting idea for a style but it doesn't have the needed tension. One could really dissect all the visual clues but the plot feels aimless. It does explain itself in the end but it feels like a cheat. The reveal isn't profound as much as it wraps up the movie. The style could work if the plot has more of a point and a lot more tension. It could also go the other way towards a pointless darker Kafkaesque nightmare. It does threaten to do that at times but it never gets there. Also the movie should be from Henry's point of view rather than from Sam Foster's. It makes less sense with Foster as the lead or else make Foster in the car crash.