What's with the chick scamming the xanax perscription? - Stay (2005) Discussion

[–] drfter 17 years ago

i didnt get whom do you mean((

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[–] DismembersOnly 17 years ago

Well, if you don't know who I'm talking about, I doubt you can answer. Nonetheless, I'm referring to the black waitress that the shrink asks about Henry when he's looking for him during the last act. She says she can help him if he writes her a script.

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[–] warmsoda 17 years ago

She wanted a prescription badly for reasons unknown, so she wanted the psychiatrist to give her the Xanax and in exchange she'd show him where that woman was.

The whole thing has no relation to the end except that Henry sees her on the bridge.

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[–] drfter 17 years ago

i got who she is .thnx
anyway, i think that it's nothing special with her as well .except that xanax is used to treat clinic depression (maybe smth that henry has) .but i guess every shrink uses that\\

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[–] harper_GRACE 14 years ago

Obviously a lot of these people replying never knew what Xanax even is. I realize it's after the fact now, but as a pharmacist, this is annoying.

Xanax is by no means used to treat clinical depression. It's a benzodiazapine and they are used to treat anxiety disorders. They're also a highly abused medication and used frequently in suicides.

Get your facts correct before you have a discussion, geez.

Sometimes, if things are closed, you just, open them up.

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[–] rainbowsheeps 17 years ago

Er... she just wants to use/abuse Xanex. She is not depressed, so she cannot attain it herself.

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[–] djdylema78 17 years ago

I think the poster's original question refers to the relevance to the "dream" (for lack of a better description) that Henry is having as he is dying. Why would he dream up a waitress requesting a Xanax prescription, i.e. what does that have to do with the story as a whole?

Perhaps it is just a bit of humor, or just a weird unexplainable part. Subconsciousness often puts in strange details in dreams that don't fit in with the rest of the dream. Still, i share in this confusion, as everything else people say or do in the dream seems to have some sort of meaning or relevance.

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[–] wizard-100 17 years ago

The same actress played the crazy Daisy woman earlier on - "I am not a monster, I'm lovable". I think perhaps this is just highlighting the fact that Henry is populating his world with a limited number of characters based on people on the bridge(He's just a kid...); the distinctions are blurring... he is finding it harder to keep different characters seperate (or maybe even they are meant to be the same character, but I don't think so )

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[–] jonzah 17 years ago

Having just watched the film, the waitress character is the one that is crying and on the bridge in real life. Maybe Henry's mind created the "Xanex" part as a way to try and calm her down. This would fit in with the same acctress playing the patient we saw at the hospital earlier in the film being sedated as wizard-100 stated.

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[–] drfter 17 years ago

you're a *beep* genius ..!!!)) that makes so much sense!)

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[–] porsche1974-1 15 years ago

That does make sense!

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[–] torn86 15 years ago

Lol! C'mon.. you meet a doctor, he needs your help...

Want my help doc? First you help me. Nuff said lol.
I cannot really think of one person in my life unless they were a martyr that hasn't done drugs or still does them. So yeah likely, someone's gonna ask the guy to write something up for them. Its too funny. :P When this was released, xanax was no where near as popular as it is now. My friends says it makes them feel numb. However, I've received phone calls in the middle of the night shouting from an onset of paranoia... worse than the other jagged little pills out there- eek.

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[–] madnessism 15 years ago

I think perhaps she wanted the Xanax to calm down after seeing a car accident/someone dying. That could just be looking into it too much, though.

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[–] faithfulnes 14 years ago

I think it represents the anxiety that he is feeling as he is dying. Obviously he was feeling a lot of different things, and everything in the movie ties into one or the other of those feelings.

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