What does lose the structure mean?
I watched a movie. There is a scene where a man started hallucinating in an hounted hotel room.
He ran into unnatural and bizarre phenomenons. When he knew he couldn't escape there, he got too panicked.

And he said to himself, "You're losing the whole goddamn structure."

What does 'lose the structure' mean here?
Do people say it to mean 'lose one's mind'?

I think he's lost his mind. = I think he's lost the[his] structure (Does it work?)

Question

What does lose the structure mean?
I watched a movie. There is a scene where a man started hallucinating in an hounted hotel room.
He ran into unnatural and bizarre phenomenons. When he knew he couldn't escape there, he got too panicked.

And he said to himself, "You're losing the whole goddamn structure."

What does 'lose the structure' mean here?
Do people say it to mean 'lose one's mind'?

I think he's lost his mind. = I think he's lost the[his] structure (Does it work?)

Answer

The movie 1408! Did you like it?

When he says "You're losing the whole goddamn structure," he's talking about how a book is written (because his character is a writer), but the line is used to show us he's losing his mind. The line before, "You're losing the plot," is another line that is talking about his writing and using a literary term, but is used to show us that he's slowly losing his grip on reality.

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