She is in the reading of the play Hamlet. Sam then tries to find Athena whom Henry was in love with. All of this is happening inside of Henry’s head. This is to give a hint to the audience that Sam and Henry are but one and the same. Sam and Henry and arguing but are shown to swap roles. Sam runs into Henry at his own house and there is a confusing altercation. Notice Sam’s shot trousers? They are short in “The Imagined” because in “The Real”, Sam is sitting down and that causes his trousers to ride up. The cop is nothing more than a bystander too in “The Real”. Sam then tries to explain to the cop that Henry’s mother is alive. I’m not sure what the dog was doing there but Henry’s mom bleeding like that is basically a representation of how she had bled out in “The Real”. Then, bizarrely she starts bleeding and goes away, while the dog bites Sam. Sam located Henry’s mother’s place where she lives with her dog. She says – I didn’t touch him I know you’re not supposed to move them. Unable to find her anywhere he reaches her apartment where she’s sitting lost and wrapped in quilt. Sam gets worried and tries to locate Beth Levy to find out more about Henry. This is why Henry freaks out looking at Leon and claim that he’s his father and is dead already. Leon is actually Henry’s father in “The Real”. Later Sam is playing chess with his blind mentor Leon. Henry tells Sam that he plans on committing suicide in three days, when he turns 21. These are nothing more than conversations that the bystanders are having in the “The Real”. Henry explains how he is always hearing voices. Henry claims to have killed both his parents and is upset that he set fire to his car (this is the reference to the car blowing up in “The Real”). The neighbour’s crying baby is simply a baby in a nearby car from “The Real” Henry’s mind makes Beth Levy his first shrink and Sam her replacement. (Eliza)Beth Levy, who is the first one to see the accident from “The Real” segment, backs off after Sam steps in. Since Sam and Laila are the ones helping him stay alive, his mind makes Sam his shrink. His mind draws on the characters that are present as bystanders watching him lying on the bridge.
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What? Then what about the whole movie you ask? The entire film apart from the Brooklyn Bridge accident, is what is… The ImaginedĪfter the accident, Henry’s mind is drawing up a more elaborate story. Sam asks Laila for a coffee as they both feel they will not be able to sleep anyways. The ambulance arrives, clears up the place. Sam and Laila do their best but can do nothing but watch Henry die. Henry is fading away and is filled with guilt of what he’s done. Laila says yes because she knows what is happening. Henry sees his girlfriend in the face of the nurse Laila and proposes to her. Sam tells him that the fault was not Henry’s as the tyre blew and nothing could have been done. He feels he has resulted in the death of his family. There are a whole bunch of bystanders watching Henry’s situation. They try to keep him alive till the ambulance gets to them. Sam and Laila have never met, they are just there offering help (Yes, they have never met). He’s attended to by Sam a doctor and Laila a nurse. She also says – I didn’t touch him I know you’re not supposed to move them. There is a lady (by the name Elizabeth Levy) who says she was right behind the accident. Henry’s dad, mom and girlfriend are all dead. His car’s front tyre bursts and the car flips into a massive tumble and blows up. Henry, his dad, mom and girlfriend are on the Brooklyn Bridge. I’ll call them “The Real” and “The Imagined”.