Dan: I want Anna back.
Larry: She's made her choice.
Dan: I owe you an apology. I fell in love with her. My intention was not to make you suffer.
Larry: So where's the apology? Ya cunt.
Dan: I apologize. If you love her you'll let her go so she can be happy.
Larry: She doesn't want to be happy.
Dan : Everybody wants to be happy.
Larry: 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.
The The ending of the movie now is not only weak but arbitrary and inconvincible--not to say it has to be believable to be a good movie on a general level, but for this particular one, it is lifeless...
I see it is based on a play and I imagine it'd be much better as a play due to the material it deals with. For it looks too real in a movie and then it gets stuck--I know characters do--in a good way, but then the movie does as well, and that is bad. Whereas if it's a play, the nature of which--alienation and detachment to real life, when handled subtly--will leave you more room to contemplate-- and yet the desire and the agony are still there. keen and real---but it also could be just a matter of a taste I guess.
There are some excellent acting in the movie--again I noticed the director's stage directing and acting background--you seldom see a "movie only" director could achieve that kind of performance...but then I think in terms of cinematic approach, it is rather plain and inadequate-the power film language possesses should have contributed more and it can.
wondering what kind of movie it'd be like if all four actors are just someone we don't know--not sure if it is a good idea, but worth thinking about it--EYES WIDE SHUT would be a good reference to this movie in many ways.
Oh, the Blowers Daughter is the song from the movie--it is really beautiful. you can listen to the song by going to the site of the movie and find the link at your bottom right. it reads "click to hear Damien Rice Track" http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/closer/site/
quotes from the movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376541/quotes
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