Closer
April 26th, 2005
Everybody wants to be happy?
Depressives don’t. They want to be unhappy to confirm they’re depressed. If they were happy they couldn’t be depressed anymore. They’d have to go out into the world and live. Which can be depressing.
Similar dialogue is scattered all around the bleak (but lovable) London–Closer was a bleak but lovable film. If there ever can be such a relationship; and interestingly enough that’s basically the plot. It was like watching an experiment, a sort of Rubik’s cube of relationships. A quadrangle doesn’t really cut it, it doesn’t get made and broken, with a Rubik’s cube–ergh, I think you know where I’m going with that analogy.
So first paragraph done, I was tempted to put “pathetic fallacy” into it, but I hate that kind of language; the only people who are impressed are examiners. The keyboad is typing, but no words are coming out if you catch my drift. Natalie Portman played the character “Alice” with all the two faces of Janus. Anyone who only sees the stripper can’t have understood the film, she showed how sometimes we have to do things without conviction, while making sure that other things we do, do count.
Julia Roberts seems to have only been doing cameos recently–”Oceans 11/12″ anyone? It was nice seeing a substantial performance that wasn’t annoying in the slightest. The same of which can be said for Jude Law, with those glasses and trench-coat he was the depressed English commuter. As for Clive Owen, I can seriously see him as the next James Bond. More on this later–I’m tired now, so I’ll leave with some of the genuinely funny dialogue which runs through the film:
I’m Larry, the doctor.
Hello, doctor Larry.
Feel free to call me The Sultan.
April 27th, 2005 at 2:41 pm
lol, wtf? I must have been tired– what the hell is a quadrangle?
December 31st, 2006 at 6:16 pm
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