Closer [2004]
Director: Mike Nichols
Actor: Clive Owen, Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman
I’m not too sure how I feel about this movie. At the end of the film I was left with two impressions; a) that it was a good movie, and b) that I hated all the characters in it. There’s just something about their actions that leave me disliking each and every one of them. It’s not like they’re flawed like any human being, because some of them make some bone-headed, ultimately self-destructive choices that no sane person would make. That said the acting is solid, and especially Clive Owen rocks this movie.
It’s about four people, two couples, who meet eachother independently of one another, seemingly by coincidence, and all fall in love with eachother. Not in a good, let’s-join-a-hippie-free-love-for-all-commune kind of way, but more in the adultery kind of way. Law falls in love with Roberts, while in a relationship with Portman. Roberts gets in a relationship with Owen and promptly starts a relationship behind is back with Law. Owen turns evil. Portman turns saintly (almost), and everyone ends up unhappy and awkward with one another. It’s a crazy four-way relationship that benefits nobody.
Good movie, but kind of depressing.
