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Rating: Illuminated New York welcomes the delirium, impassive. A "prostitute" of buildings and immobile glass, "watches" indifferently everything that happens, resilient and sleepless, like our characters.
With Stay-The Maze of the Mind, we enter a now recurring theme, depression. One of the worst pathologies of modern man.
Medications, psychiatrists, and psychotherapists will not be enough to eliminate that stain, that spot in the mind and heart. The causes and contributing factors of depression are numerous, the pharmacological solution useful, and psychotherapy fundamental. Just one thing is missing: eliminating the stigma, fear, and prejudices. After all, people die of depression.
The film begins with Sam, a psychiatrist, who takes on Henry, a depressed artist. The psychiatrist who had followed him until that moment is in "Burn Out." Henry wants to die; he has already chosen the place, means, and time. This would be the greatest alarm bell for a therapist. In such cases, immediate mandatory hospitalization is necessary. Sam does not make this decision and begins to follow Henry to change his mind. Sam is the character who will have the most fascinating and tortuous path of "savior" of the healing mind.
Two themes unfold in the first part of the film, transference and countertransference. Henry is in full transference with his previous doctor, and Sam will enter into countertransference with Henry to the point of "living his life," turning it into an obsession.
The problem is that we will enter the psychiatrist's mind until the last 15 minutes of the film when everything will be revealed. The camera becomes irritating with its tilted, asymmetric shots and the whirlwind of infinite spiral staircases.
There will be many encounters and clashes with various characters that will reveal everything to us in the end. Not everything is as it seems.
The maze of the mind and its reflections are like the facets of a diamond. Both characters will hold an engagement ring full of light and hope.
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