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Movie Review: ...look 'Closer'
Summary: 5 Stars
Lyin', cheatin' hearts abound in Closer directed by Mike Nichols.
"Try lying for a change. It's the currency of the world." That line, said by Jude Law's Dan deep within the perplexing Closer, can perhaps sum up the entire film in one quote. It's this kind of BRILLIANT, snappy dialogue that makes Closer the second best film of the year.
This is a film about human vice. Although Dan (Law) and Larry (Clive Owen) have given up smoking, they still indulge in internet sex chat rooms. Alice (Natalie Portman) is a stripper, and Anna (Julia Roberts) is in her own way a voyeur through her photography. These people are flawed, yet a flicker of humanity exists in each of them still--and it will all be gone by the end of the film. It tells us the story over the course of four years, where Dan gets invoved with Alice through a happenstance encounter, and then later meets Anna, and has an affair with her. She marries Larry, and so forth. There is couple switching, backstabbing, foulmouthes, and lyin', cheatin' hearts.
I'm going to go all the way and say that this is the best acted film since In the Bedroom, and I'll even say that it features some of the most deliciously satisfying verbal confrontations since Mike Nichols' debut in 1966 of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The volley between Larry and Anna when he confronts her about his sex habits with Dan is the best piece of acting I have seen all year. The way she says "it tastes like you but sweeter" is so cold and would be very disarming if Larry was not such a stone. Then he says "that's the spirit. Thanks for the honest. Now f*ck off and die." In a way, the scene is earthshattering to the point where we are weakened from complete and utter guilt. We are these characters. These are people. Real people.
Clive Owen and Natalie Portman give arguably the best supporting performances of the year (especially from the strip club scene), and Jude Law and Julia Roberts are also fantastic. Yes, it's difficult to stomach Roberts speaking of such matters as "coming" and oral sex, but it's great to see a change. They each inhabit the characters and brilliantly exemplify their range of complicated emotion. Closer is filled with these complicated emotions. So look Closer...I dare you.
Movie Review: Take a Closer Look...
Summary: 5 Stars
Closer is an intimate look at two very complicated and very troubled relationships. A reviewer for TIME Magazine has called Closer "A love story for adults," but this is a far cry from any love story you are likely to see. If this is love, take back my reservation.
Patrick Marber adapted his own play about two couples who try, unsuccessfully, to secretly swap partners. The film gets up close and personal with these four people with scenes that are so real and packed with so much emotion, you want to look away because they seem so private, yet you can't take your eyes off the screen.
The cast is mesmerizing, each perfect in their roles. Julia Roberts is quite impressive as Anna, in one of her best performances. She is always easier to take when her trademark acting ticks are stripped away and she does a good job conveying a woman wracked with guilt who is nonetheless compelled to cause hurt. Jude Law is quite good as Dan, an obituary writer struggling to become a novelist, and Clive Owen is terrific in an Oscar nominated and Golden Globe winning role as Larry, a dermatologist who meets Anna because of a cruel joke by Dan. Natalie Portman, especially, delivers a nuanced and unforgettable performance in her Oscar nominated and Golden Globe winning performance. She was most stunning of all in her first 'adult' role. I look forward to seeing more of her once the horrendous first three Star Wars films come to an end in May.
What makes Closer so interesting, aside from the across-the-board blistering performances and crackling dialogue, is that you might empathize with a character in one scene, and then hate their guts in the next. Everyone is a victim, and everyone is an abuser, although not always in the most obvious ways. Closer is very adult, and very clever; a classy, striking piece of work.
Veteran director Mike Nichols' juggles the various time frames with consummate artistry and his subtle dramatic skill evokes memories of his first film, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966) - but there's no Elizabeth Taylor or Richard Burton here, although all four actors deliver unusually strong performances. You might feel the need for a cold shower after watching this film, but it'll be worth it.
Movie Review: The Closer you get the less you Trust...
Summary: 5 Stars
Closer is amazing! I was hooked from the start of the movie until the end. I loved the distrust and the plot that "what you have you don't want but as soon as you don't have it you want it"; as I think we are all victims of that life. Granted most are not this distrustful. But, if it was not happening around us do you think we would have talk shows and all these divorces if this movie was not close to reality.
You see Alice/Jane (Portman) walking in a crowd of people and Dan (Law) walking towards her Alice crosses the street and ends up getting hit by a car. Dan takes her to the hospital and they fall in love. Law must leave his girlfriend for Alice because she asks if he has a girlfriend and he says yes. So then we flash forward and Dan is getting his picture taken by Anna (Roberts) and he is interested in her...They kiss and this is the start of a romance between the two of them. Alice sees that Dan has a "look" in his eyes when he comes to meet her downstairs of the apartment he was getting his picture taken in. She then goes upstairs with her and listens in on the conversation that Dan and Anna have. Anna tells him no she will not see him. So Dan goes on websites that promote sex and uses Anna's name and tells people to meet her at the Aquarium. Larry (Owen) shows up because of this and they end up falling in love and calling Dan "Cupid". Anna has a picture of Alice at her show so they go and Dan begs Anna to be with him. We flash again and you find that Larry and Anna are married and come to find out Larry cheats on Anna and Anna is cheating on him WITH DAN and that Dan was leaving Alice to get with Anna and she leaving Larry to be with Dan. After Dan and Anna are together she goes back to Larry to get him to sign the divorce papers she gets him to only by sleeping with him. Starting a new spiral now Dan is upset that Anna would cheat on him. And Dan goes back to Larry who goes to Alice and starts another spiral. You will have to watch the end to find out who ends up with who and who ends up alone.
Over-all all the waiting I had to do for this movie was worth it! I also love the Daminen Rice song!
Movie Review: Love hurts!
Summary: 5 Stars
This superb movie has notable edges, a solid script, a talented director, a splendid cast (the four main characters were superb). You should never forget that after that memorable and anthological film: who `s afraid of Virginia Woolf? In 1966, Mike Nichols simply reencountered with himself. He is one the most brilliant and propulsive directors of the last Century, thanks to him Jack Nicholson's career achieved a special peak.
Four defined characters will meet in London. A frustrated male photographer(Julia Roberts), a dare devil writer(Jude Law) who pretends to reach the sudden notoriety through his emotive biographical memories with a girl with serious affective problems and limited self stem who aspires a major status in this society, and finally a bore dermatologist (Clive Owen)who works out as the opposite mirror like image of Law (notice how they exchange high tension dialogues while they are chatting).
These are the defined pieces; and since that dramatic premise there will be an anthological game of wounded wills, emotional double crosses, emotive blackmails, oppression and reinsertion of new patterns of behavior before these serious affective lacks.
Try to pay special attention respect a very brief but emblematic lines in the motel, when Natalie Portman says: "Where is the love?" And she concatenates four verbs in tandem: See me , feel me , touch me , hear me. Does not this sequence sound familiar to you? Well let me refresh the dramatic nucleus of Tommy: the famous Rock Opera. I guess this was a fabulous touch of genius by the screen writer, as well as the prologue and epilogue: can't take my eyes over you, another emblematic homage to that famous song of the late sixties.
One of the most original pictures in that year and a marvelous tour de force, that rejoins us with those golden years where the chamber works of overwhelming theatrical stages became successful films (A streetcar named desire, A long day journey through the night) are by themselves the best evidence.
"Love is the eternal toy that the women pretend to give and the men assume they receive." (Nietzsche)
Movie Review: WOW WOWWOWWOWOWOWOWOWOW
Summary: 5 Stars
ok first, i like to tell people what other movies i am into so they know if they should disregard my review or not. my favorite movies are the likes of Garden State, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Harold and Maude, Saved, Fight Club, and anything else with honest emotion at the core. Humans run on emotions, and i like movies that can accurately depict them. Closer possibly has done this in the most riveting, heartbreaking, and accurate manner
I wont give away much of the plot, but the movie is mostly about infidelity. It mixes the emotions that come with sex and relationships so truly that it hits people like a knife. The four characters, Alice (Natalie Portman), Dan (Jude Law), Anna (Julia Roberts), and Larry (Clive Owen), all intermingle in different ways, sexually and heated. It is about the tragedy of it all, and how relationships always have their ups and downs, but when infidelity is in play, no one truly wins.
the four actors are nothing short of incredible. i havent seen acting that good in many movies, and they did this all without weird fantastic settings or incredibly big main characters. they were all ordinary characters in an ordinary setting, and they made it seem monumental. i couldn't say anyone was better than anyone else, because they all had different characters and scenes to play, different emotions to bring to the table. roberts, however, has brought her usual style and flare into a totally different region, and her often excoriating strikes are felt by the audience as well
probably my favorite aspect is that this movie is about sex in all forms and reasons. but there is not ONE sex scence. it isnt until you think about that u realize that because there is enough sexuality and tension to produce any picture you wanted. right down to the painfully strong stripper scence where portman and owen are as close to having sex as any in the movie, arent even allowed to touch. it isnt noticed if you are as affected by the movie as i was.
possibly one of my favorite movies of all time, anyone that doesnt take something away from it has never felt the things they so clearly emote