Inaccessible love - Closer

Hollie 2022-04-22 07:01:05

Watching "Closer" again, Damien Rice's music is too familiar, so that the film's statement does not have the sad sting of the original. However, rewatching allowed me to adjust to the rhythm of the film faster, after all, it adopted a new editing method, which made the time that should have been slow to change violently and quickly in the film. Lost my way.

In the whole film, time is a key word: in an instant, you can fall in love with a person, and a whole year is enough to make you lose a person.

Just as quickly.

The content of the film is not complicated, there is no dramatic suspense, and there is no detailed love. Even in terms of characters, apart from two pairs of men and women, there are no supporting roles worth noting. A falls in love with B at first sight, and after living with B, A falls in love with C again, but C marries D. However, A and C communicate with their lovers behind their backs, causing conflicts to unfold. There seems to be nothing special about such a story, but the director arranged different life backgrounds for each character, and then generously began to express his understanding of emotions.

My understanding is that the film is trying to analyze the three things "sex, love, tolerance".

While this film amazes you at how quickly every relationship between people changes, it also makes you marvel at the adaptability of people's roles in life: they lie, confess, quarrel, envy, adore, hurt... The most restless side of the heart is displayed endlessly. Love is absent in the first half (does love at first sight count as love?), because there is only the desire to possess. At the end of the film, however, a warm long shot was arranged to calm everything down and let emotions (I didn't use "love") find a home in tolerance.

Or is this just the brewing period for the next wave?

We don't know.

Because those beautiful faces and beautiful limbs are always organized into cubes of desire, embedded in every nook and cranny of life, endlessly...

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Closer quotes

  • Larry: Why didn't you just tell me the second I walked through the door?

    Anna: I was scared.

    Larry: You're a coward, you spoiled bitch.

  • Dan: You've ruined my life.

    Anna: You'll get over it.