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Closer (2004)
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Movie Review by Zara 
December 30th, 2007
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The intro and closing music is so damn pretentious and annoying that I wanted to turn the movie off from the very start. Add to it Julia Roberts who has this off-putting ice-princess thing (kind of like the girl who used to be low on the rung and now she acts like she's super important and better than you, you know the feeling) and the Jude Law infidelity crap and I wasn't in the best of moods from the get go with this film.
But if you wait it out for Clive Owen, the only character, though while seemingly despicable, is honest and true, caving to the base instinct that most people have, and there's some redemption in the film. I guess it's because I'd like to believe that most people aren't liars. But I suppose the film is true in portraying the world at large as being false a**holes. Which makes the movie rather depressing.
It's filmed beautifully and everyone seems to be in the thick of it, and I just am beside myself with all of the lovely British slang (hey, I fancy it, so sue me) but it simply aches of a holier-than-thou perspective. While most of the people in the world are liars, that much is true, it doesn't mean that everyone is going to approach that reality in the same fashion, as the movie purports. Some people like their lies. I think this is somewhat pointed out in the end with the shot of Roberts, but the final closing with Portman being gawked at aims to try and tell the viewer that we should rise above. Speak only for yourself, yannow?
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