People need to remember that the whole film is seen from Stephen's perspective; thus the other characters are not depicted as they "are" but as he perceives them at the time and many- perhaps even all- of the events may not happen except in his imagination (how likely, for example, is a crash that kills one person in a car and leaves the other without serious injury?)- or even someone else's imagination of his imagination. Indeed, there is a key scene where Charley begins to narrate the plot of a novel inspired by the people in the film and this is the film of that novel- are we in Charley's fantasy inspired by the friend who is the basis for Stephen or in Stephen's fantasy or is William taking Charley's advice and imaging a world?
Review of Accident
