Closer
2004 Directed by Mike Nichols
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If you believe in love at first sight, you never stop looking.
Set in contemporary London, a story of passion, drama, love, and abandonment involving four strangers--their chance meetings, instant attractions and casual betrayals.
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This might actually be the most brutally honest and unapologetic film I have ever seen. The dialogues are sharp as knife and they just cut through you. It is true that the truth sometimes hurts. When the truth is bitter and something that we do not want to know, it hurts like fucking hell.
I must admit that this is not a film which everyone would like. Films everyone likes would be average, crowd pleasers. That is why everyone likes it. But there are love hate films like these, where the amount of liking that some have would almost dwindle the amount of liking that the entire audience has for a film which looks good to everybody.
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This movie had me at that very first scene. Natalie gracefully sweeping through the London with her blue hair while Damien Rice sings "I can't take my eyes off of you". This movie is a tough blow to a romantic soul. Thankfully, I'm a realist and a somewhat depressive so it played out in the most delightfully gritty, raw, and painful way.
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Had another Snow Day today, which meant it was another day it was too fucking cold to go outside so that means another day to stay inside and watch films and tv shows (and get ready for season 7 premiere of Psych!!!).
But for now, I'll get a little closer with Closer (see what I did there?).
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The only thing that ever really bugged me about this film was how just before Anna told Larry she was sleeping with Dan, Larry came out and said she cheated on Anna one time while in New York. It's hard to sympathize with him and he was being a great husband after that and I wish the film stuck with…
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85th film of The December Project
I really didn't like this at first. It was so... I don't know. The characters were annoying - I didn't like any of them - and the ways they met were very unrealistic and almost silly. It felt written. It felt... constructed.
But then, around the big intercut set-piece, something happened. It suddenly used all the unrealistic things and pulled them down to the gritty realism of reality. From that point it was a joy (not sure if that's the right word, but it does fts) to watch these characters manipulate and trick each other, how they split apart and came back together, forever changed.
Mike Nichol's does a great job directing this, though…
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Patrick Marber writes stunning dialogue and brilliantly explores the complexities of love, carnal desire and above all, the preoccupation with truth.
Mike Nicholls is a superb director for material originating from the stage (see also Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf)
Good? Now fuck off and die
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After reading my review of Beautiful Girls , Dirk Hasselman told me to check this out. He told me: "One of the few films with Julia Roberts I can stand.", and I thought: "Wow, stand Julia Roberts? Really? I gotta see this". Well, thanks, Dirk.
Compared to Beautiful Girls, this movie is quite complex. Lots of poetic lines, confused feelings, brutal reactions, cold reactions. The movie was not made to be easy, and it reaches the point of an artistic movie doing that.
The story has only 4 characters. Four different people. A loser journalist; a little punky rootless 'disarming' girl; a serious, mature and sad photographer; and a perverted dermatologist. All four so well created that they really seems…
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Stunning work from four actors who aren't always as good as they are here--that isn't say they're necessarily bad, but not brilliant. Nichols' direction brings out the best in them. Portman and Owen turn in gorgeous performances, but Law and Roberts should not be overlooked, as Closer contains two of their very best performances. Wonderful film. (Clive Owen I could buy, but Natalie Portman's nominations in supporting actress categories are ridiculous. If anything, she's the third lead.)
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Melodramatic, annoying, overrated, disappointing... Sums up my experience quite nicely. Natalie Portman is nice to look at, and that's about the only good thing to be said about this movie. I've certainly had worse experiences, but this is one I'm not too fond of.
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most boring crap i have ever seen
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It may not compare with Mike Nichols' first feature, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, another disturbing and pessimistic view on relationships, but Closer was still a very good movie. The film depicts the relationships between four people in London over several years: Anna (Julia Roberts), a photographer; Dan (Jude Law), an obituarist and failed novelist; Larry (Clive Owen), a dermatologist; and Alice (Natalie Portman), a waitress and former stripper. Of the four, I found Larry to be the most interesting, Alice the most puzzling, Dan the most unlikable, and Anna the most realistic. The film deals with many themes, but the truth vs. lies is one of the biggest. Is it always better to tell the truth, even when it…
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After seeing this I might have to watch Bridget Jones or something, just to level off my emotions.
It's like watching your friends fight for two straight hours, and I just wanted to step between them and tell them to BREAK IT UP. It's exhausting, and at several times I just feel like turning it off because it's so painful to watch. But much like a squashed badger on a highway, "Closer" is impossible to look away from no matter how heartbreaking and gross it is. However, unlike a roadkill, it is also pretty brilliant.
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This movie shocked me. It's really messed up. Truly nothing like I expected. Yet, I kind of loved it. Bravo to Clive Owen, he's one sick dude in this film.
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Una película bastante buena, entrelazando varias historias como una sola, diálogos muy bien manejados, es una historia un poco inusual pero agradable, la lucha constante de egos entre los protagonistas te mantiene entretenido y un final un poco atípico. La verdad es una de esas películas de drama que vale la pena ver porque no se basa en el digamos un romance y el perdón y todos felices para siempre, va mas allá, al dominio que puede tener alguien sobre una persona.
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As the characters move farther apart, the audience moves Closer to them
Closer was a film that I really knew nothing about. I believed going in that Julia Roberts and Natalie Portman were in it, but beside that, I had no idea.
I quickly found that it was actually getting some talk for award nominations, and it piqued my interest.
Closer begins with Dan(Jude Law) walking down the street. Walking the other way is Alice(Natalie Portman) They bob up and down with the rest of the pedestrians until Alice tries to cross the street without looking and is hit by a cab. Dan is the first one their to help her and convinces the cabbie to get them to a…
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This might actually be the most brutally honest and unapologetic film I have ever seen. The dialogues are sharp as knife and they just cut through you. It is true that the truth sometimes hurts. When the truth is bitter and something that we do not want to know, it hurts like fucking hell.
I must admit that this is not a film which everyone would like. Films everyone likes would be average, crowd pleasers. That is why everyone likes it. But there are love hate films like these, where the amount of liking that some have would almost dwindle the amount of liking that the entire audience has for a film which looks good to everybody.
I loved it…