2004 Directed by Mike Nichols
A witty, romantic, and very dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.
the most underrated scene in film history: when jude law catfishes clive owen by IMing him "sit on my face fuckboy" in Closer (2004)
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…
In which that monotonous fog horn turns all sour, Julia Roberts isn't annoying, Jude Law embraces his inner twatness with great success and Natalie Portman outacts the lot of them.
It's bitter, bleak and cynical. In short, my idea of a perfect Valentine's Day film.
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.
Closer is a cruel and realistic portrait of modern society. We fall in love and people leave you for others, who leave them for anothers, and in the end everyone end up hurt and alone and maybe I shouldn't have watched this in my current state of mind.
The dialogue is pure verbal onanism on the part of the writers.
The characters cannot even believe themselves.
The big reveal at the end of the film is so undeserved it falls absolutely flat.
What was meant to be, I imagine, a critical piece on the cynicism of 21st century romance is at best a cautionary tale and at worst infantile drivel.
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