wrysmile said:
Well, the cuntish behaviour may have vaguely been like real life, but the acting was utterly dire, the whole thing felt really plastic and un-real. Pretty poor all in all.
Closer?
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Well, the cuntish behaviour may have vaguely been like real life, but the acting was utterly dire, the whole thing felt really plastic and un-real. Pretty poor all in all.
Dubversion said:perhaps it's because i'm largely theatrephobic and this is a film that never seemed to escape its theatrical background?
it just totally failed to ring true or even interesting. Shame Vixen's not around, she thought it was bobbins too..
This is one film I completely agree with you on. The above sums it up really.
Could have been very good, but felt utterly plastic.
Reno
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I don't mind films with theatrical dialogue or acting. R.W. Fassbinder (currently there is a season of his work at the ICA I believe) and some of David Mamet's films (especially the excellent House of Games) do this rather well and they both started out in the theatre. The problem with Closer for me was that I simply didn't believe in the characters. The were mere constructs to make a fashionably misantropic point about how we all are bastards at heart, but it never shows the slightest interest in why this may be so. Just like its protagonists it struck me as glib and shallow.
excellent, the tide is turning against this piece of crap 
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Thought the demographic for whom this would appeal might be jaundiced middle-aged men, so it’s a relief to see (what I assume to be) other ages also getting something from it.
I liked it very much. Not convinced it worked on every level, but it did strip away much of that dreadful unthinking, learned behaviour ‘romance’ bollocks to identify the uncomfortable reality of self-interest being at the root of human behaviour, in partic the inherent hypocrisy of ‘love’ as some selfless gift. Well, that’s what I thought . . .
You mileage may vary but, for my money, it wasn’t even cynical, just honest.
I liked it very much. Not convinced it worked on every level, but it did strip away much of that dreadful unthinking, learned behaviour ‘romance’ bollocks to identify the uncomfortable reality of self-interest being at the root of human behaviour, in partic the inherent hypocrisy of ‘love’ as some selfless gift. Well, that’s what I thought . . .
You mileage may vary but, for my money, it wasn’t even cynical, just honest.
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