Closer : Waging a war against usual meet-cute flicks
Have you seen a human heart? It looks like a fist wrapped in blood! You go check a few facts while I get my hands dirty. - Larry These are the words that were ringing in my ears long after I finished watching the movie Closer. Starting off as a typical rom-com it progresses into an arena of manipulations, power struggles, bitter truths, and lies. Characters resort to brutal truths (more like confessions) in their relationships, hurtful yet ashamed at the same time. The movie revolves around the idea of how intimacy is actually a lie. Closer, released in 2004, is based on a play written by Patrick Marber and is directed by Mike Nichols. It stars Jude Law as Dan (a writer and journalist), Natalie Portman as Alice (an American girl who says she was a stripper and fled New York to end a relationship), Julia Roberts as Anna (an American photographer), and Clive Owen as Larry (a dermatologist). The characters connect in a series of meet-cutes that are perhaps no more contrived than...