Alex Dead?

Alrighty.... I just finished watching this about fifteen minutes ago and I'm a firm believer in the fact that Alex is very much alive. While yes, one could say that he is dead, but can see what is going on around him, I seriously doubt it. The knife to the shoulder would not have killed him, especially since it was never removed, thus stemming the flow of blood from the wound. He wouldn't have bled to death for quite a while.

Also, it has been mentioned in interviews that Alex is alive. You may still argue that he is dead, but the fact still stands that according to the director, he's alive.

I own the DVD and just watched Danny Boyles audio commentary. He states that Alex is definitely alive, and that he added in Alex's "hello inspector" in order to let people who thought that he was simply about to be taken away to a morgue like David was that he was completely and utterly alive.

To all those people who SWEAR that Alex is dead, and that all of us who think Alex is alive are stupid, if Danny Boyle, the director, says that Alex is alive, then Alex is ALIVE.

Alex is ALIVE.

I know I'm late to the party, but I think he alive based on the script not specifically stating that he has died. Another excellent Boyle movie.
someone else posted script, but I'll re-post just in case...

http://www.horrorlair.com/scripts/shallow.txt

In his director's commentary, Danny Boyle say's that Alex isn't dead and the reason he smiles and says ''hello inspector'' is to prove that he's not.

Just viewed for the first time, and I do feel that director's commentary is void. The scene plays out as though he died and in a surreal way is making light of the situation. I gather this from the insane manner in which crime scene photos are taken of him, as though he's dead. There's no interaction between him and other characters to suggest he is alive.

Now, I know you can pull out this director's commentary crap and go as far as to say Deckard is an android because Scott said so in the commentary, but I have news for you: the commentary doesn't play over the movies at a theatre. The context of the presentation is what matters in a narrative.

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From the director's commentary, it's clear they wanted to convey Alex being alive, but it was almost like they didn't think it through and didn't realize that it wouldn't make sense for the emergency response to respond that way. The whole ending of the movie seemed rushed.

Now I know many people are going to think I'm crazy, which they're not far off, but I believe Alex is still alive. I think that you can see that just by viewing the film that the knife was plunged in places away from vital organs, and the fact that the detectives where so blah-zay about Alex still being nailed to the ground by a knife, while they happily snapped picture of his injuries. Not to mention the fact that they leave the seen with his last words in the film being, "Hello, Inspector", which I would believe he would say to start with his story on the whole escapade. Also, he's laughing, while obliviously servilely injured by the fact that he won in the end, he has all the money. Juliet runs to escape the police, whom if Alex told them everything that happened, would be after her, so to speak, thus she is fleeing the country as she races to the airport solemnly. This is purely my opinion, but I think I make a pretty good argument.

He can't be dead if he had narrated the entire story. Still though, it stands to reason that it doesn't make sense that there wouldn't have been an emergency response before crime photos were taken.