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February 23, 2005
Feeling Closer
Saw Closer a while back - forgot to write to tell you all about how much I loved it.
the movie managed to capture something about relationships, the wistful sad angry awful parts, as if ripped from someone's notebook and sloppily, elegantly, interestingly pasted together. ..
there was this moment in the film that just pulled my memories out of my head and into my chest and stomped around a bit...
the moment reminded me of the horrible truth of breaking up a long-term relationship...
when you spend so much time with the other person that you know what's happening before it actually happens...
when you both come together and see it in each other's faces, when "I'm going to leave you" overlaps with "you're leaving me, aren't you"...
and both of you feel like shit ...but only one of you feels they deserve to be comforted...
and the only person you can go to at that very moment is the person who hurt you but you go anyway, into their arms, and sob and sob and scream ...
and wonder why the hell things have to end like this. ..
and that was just one scene.
the whole movie was stagey, scene-chewingly talky, and full of beautiful people and places....I just plain loved this movie.
Posted by Heather at February 23, 2005 04:26 PM
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So... my impression of this movie was as follows:
Two young couples make bad decisions. Then have to deal with the consequences of those bad decisions.
I suspect this is factually correct and on that basis, I stayed away. Is this factually incorrect and I should give it a chance?
Posted by: Stuart Moulder at February 24, 2005 01:39 AM
I can't believe you saw "Closer" without me.
(God, I'm a heartless bastard.)
Posted by: Blondie at February 24, 2005 08:14 AM
Ah for the movies about the relationships that are too fleeting, skitter about, striking sparks of the scenery as if time itself didn't exist. We've been around long enough to know that time doesn't really exist? What are you doing, say, around May?
Posted by: Junco Partner at February 24, 2005 05:16 PM