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[edit] Blurb

Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling) was driving along the Brooklyn Bridge on his 21st birthday. In the car were his girlfriend, Athena (to whom he was going to propose marriage) and his parents (in the back seat). One of the front tires blew out, causing him to lose control of the car. It flipped over and caught on fire. He was thrown from the vehicle and lay dying on the street; everyone else in the car was killed instantly. Henry is vaguely aware of what's going on, but his surroundings are blurring and morphing into his subconscious. The random bystanders and rubberneckers become characters in his "life": the doctor bending over him (Sam Foster/Ewan MacGregor) becomes his psychiatrist; the random nurse (Lila/Naomi Watts) who jumped out of her own car to help becomes Sam's girlfriend, and Sam and Lila live in an apartment building where the architectural motifs match those of the Brooklyn Bridge that Henry is staring up at. And so on. Henry is racked with guilt over what just happened and blames himself for the accident - in his fantasy/nightmare, he has murdered his parents and plans to kill himself.[1]

[edit] View from Nowhere

The blind chessplaying shrink, who is the not quite the father, and who now can see, in the key line of the film, comments: "The Buddhists are right, it is all illusion." This is a story of how we dream the world together, and how we dream each other. It becomes, therefore a matter or urgency, that we assist those who dream us, as we dream ourselves and them. Our very lives may depend on it, and the realization of this brings compassion for all our co-dreamers and for ourselves.

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