Men and women are different in love.

Rating: 9/10 (26 April 2009)

It has been such a long time since the first time I watched Closer. Honestly speaking, I had no idea what aspect of love it was about. First sight? Lust? Intimacy? Truth? Or all of them? Maybe the director has too much to convey and just mix it in this movie, which justifies its obscurity. Anyway, after my mind is cleared, what strikes me most is as follows.
Men can fall in love with any woman anytime anywhere, no matter whether he is already with someone or not. They are easily attracted to different kinds of women and wish to taste them all. Men are more selfish in love than women. They think love and sex are separate but they do not allow women to think like that. They can tell calmly, with or without sense of guilt, their once beloved that they do not love them any more, but when deserted or betrayed by women they simply can not act as cool as they desert women.
As to women, they easily fall in love with every man who shows them the least bit of attention. This explains why both Alice and Anna can not resist the passion of Dan, the handsome man who is attracted to both of them. Usually a woman begins to love a man after the man loves her, and once a woman loves a man, she sticks to their love. Here Alice is a perfect example. She is somewhat different from the other three main characters in the movie in that she never leaves the one she loves. Marriage, to a woman, does not necessarily mean living with the man she loves most, but means living with the man who loves her most, which is demonstrated by the case of Anna in the movie. Definitely she loves Dan rather than Larry, but she chooses Larry as her husband eventually.
All in all, I think this movie is thought-provoking and worth watching.