"...Do we ever really get Closer to people? Do they ever get Closer to us?
How much Closer do we want them to be to us?
Boy, girl, boy, girl, dermatologist, stripper, journalist, photographer. ...
The place is London. The subject is guilt. And the message is that if you
keep the guilt to yourself, a difficult thing to do, you cause less pain."
The Daily Mail
"..In the London public gardens known as Postman's Park. There, Alice
has found her identity. There, Dan was once with his dad. There, forgotten
people are remembered. But not dying means living and loving.
The reviews(Cottesloe Theater)
I missed watching Closer in big screen but renting a VCD. This is totally
adult thing and for those with experiences behind - love, lust, lie and desire.
I think the movie must well hit home to these people. I'm jealous of them
'cause I believe they can conceive more of the messages and the taste must
be stronger - sweet, bitter, hot or sapid, whatever in a superlative level.
So Alice, the character we thought the most open and the most elusive of all,
proves to have been the most mysterious. Her real name is as what she told
Larry in the club - Jane Jones. It's the name in her passport, if you well notice
in the very last scene at the immigration.
"Hello Stranger" is how the story started.
"Goodbye, still, Stranger" is what the story ended.
I don't know what's the first thing came to his, Dan, thought when he found out
he knew nothing about her, Alice, even real name. Serves him right! And his book
,claimed to be based on her stories, must be all crap. Like she said what it lacked of
is the truth.
I like the movie. Watched, re-watched, re-re-watched a few times.
Closer is originally from a play, not a book. So here's a few for what it's like in
a play.
Play by Patrick Marber "What's so great about the truth? The truth hurts people,
try lying for a change. It's the currency of the world." Set in contemporary Lodon,
Closer is a story of four strangers who meet and fall in love....
"....two men and two women explore the extremities of emotion, from love and
lust to guilt and despair, features no nudity, no simulated sex but something
much stronger; language, raw, obscene, shocking, like a kick in the groin or a
spit in the face."
Lyric Theater
"Closer is a play about love, desire, sex, jealousy and guilt. There is no nudity,
no simulated love-making, but the language is as violent and as graphic as you
are likely to encounter outside the pages of a porn magazine. ...
This is how people, or at least many people, talk when they are in the grip of the
most powerful or destructive emotions, or when they are engaging in sexual fantasies.
...
Anyone who has loved and lost, anyone who has experienced infidelity or felt love
die, will watch this play with stomach chirping pangs of recognition. ...
Alice desperately begs her unfaithful boyfriend to stay, the scene when Larry asks
Anna just what sex was like with her new lover, have a scorching intensity and
emotional truth. "
The Daily Telegraph
