Slow Day + Closer (Movie Review)

OK so the day is UGH ... dont even know where to start!! I had a few drinks last night whoohooo one turned into two then two turned into three and then I had to stop at 5. Yeah GOOD GIRL GONE BAD na jk was feeling down and out so why not drown my sorrows in some alcohol :)!!

Its been a crazy but slow week its given me think to think and reflect on life... OMG who am I kidding just been thinking of mom and also this movie "CLOSER" I saw the other day ... Have you all see it ?? The film puts the four leading characters in a box and then takes them apart.

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Plot Summary for Closer (2004)
Set in London, England, good Samaritan Dan Wolf (Jude Law), a struggling writer, takes Alice Ayres (Natalie Portman), a shady young woman and part-time stripper, to the hospital when she's hit by a car, and they fall in love. One year later, Dan meets photographer Anna Cameron (Julie Roberts) and tries to pick her up, but she rebuffs him. In revenge, Dan sets Anna up for an embarrassing encounter with sex-addicted dermatologist Larry Bagley (Clive Owen), but the two end up seeing each other. Then another year later, Dan and Anna begin an affair of their own, and relationships between the four collapse. Over the next year, all of them become obsessed with hurting each other and wreak some heavy emotional damage. Will any of them be strong enough to put this destructive sequence of events to a stop?
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I havent yet written a Review about this movie because I really had to think about this one. A Review coming form a Film Major is always deep and in though, but you see it always means so more than just watching a movie or just ready any review. Its more of my direction of the meaning of the film. Actually what I got from it because we all have our own opinions about things :) !! I do have to add when I first started watching it I was thinking "WHAT A FLOP" and "CAN WE PLEASE FAST FORWARD", but then when it ended I had to sit down and really think about the story, the characters, the plots, and also the climax and ending. I dont want to ruin the film for you so if you have not seen it I suggest to don't read any farther!!

Chris' Movie Review
I Give Closer (B+)
There’s a great old Onion story with a headline to the effect of “Sex No Longer Worth The Trouble.” Mike Nichols’ Closer presents as convincing an argument to that end as you’re likely to see in a film featuring Julia Roberts. Adapted by Patrick Marber from his own play Closer details the sexual interminglings of four of the most vile, manipulative people to ever exchange bodily fluids. It opens with Dan (Jude Law) catching the eye of a pretty stranger, Alice (Natalie Portman) who returns his gaze and promptly steps into the path of an oncoming vehicle. Dan brings her to the hospital, some time goes by, and they’re eventually living together. Dan publishes a book and hires Anna (a miscast Roberts) to take his picture for the jacket.
OK, so I saw this movie with my friend, who is a photographer. She spent most of the film in an angry funk about the inaccuracies in its portrayal of her profession. Anyway, assuming this doesn't bother the other 99 percent of you, there's plenty to enjoy about Closer, namely a lot of fast talk about sex. All of the physical intercourse, much of which happens purely for spite takes place off screen and most of the film is devoted to snappy conversation about all that is going on. Each character is vicious in his or her own right, and each to some extent gets his or her comeuppance. Closer will be best appreciated by viewers with some interest in or familiarity with the art of theatrical scripting and performance. Films based on stage plays more so than those adapted from other media always make me curious about the source material: what was changed, how it was originally staged, etc. The same is true of Nichols’ previous effort the spectacular Angels in America bed on Tony Kushner’s play.

I suspect my fascination has to do with the inherent emphasis on dialogue, which is typically far superior to that of films based on videogames. Characteristically the back-and-forth in Closer is dynamite. These characters relentlessly assault each other with impeccably timed verbal abuse, turning the proceedings into a fascinating case study in emotional sadomasochism. The unforgettable strip-club confrontation between Larry and Alice is one of the best collisions of writing, acting and directing to grace the screen in a long time its just because of the appealing ways in which Portman is photographed. The dialogue in Closer bears little resemblance to how real people talk. The conversations are rhythmic, stylized and idealized, sprinkled with profundity you wouldn’t expect from such despicable characters. It’s the sort of stuff you’d think to say a half hour after losing an argument. In a lot of ways, Closer is a hard sell—photogenic actors in various stages of stardom, cast against type, with almost nothing good to say about love. Not exactly a popcorn film for the holidays or a date film, but just the thing for the cynics among us who like to see nastiness articulated as elegantly as possible.