Believable

Rating: 10/10 (14 February 2005)

I can understand why people don't "get" this film, when we go to the cinema we are looking for a "quick fix" something to take our minds off the real world, we want the actors to be pretty, we want the story lines to be fairy tales, happy endings, nicely rounded up at the end. Closer is far from this. This film is honest, brutally honest, it is shocking yet it does not shock, this film exists, it does not scream onto the screen or dig at your emotions, it does not try to move you yet does, it is a chunk of four lives shown to us in a way we have never seen before, no glorified love story, no simple ending, no ending at all really, you know that these characters can live without the film, they still exist, their lives still happen after the credits roll. i was moved, seriously moved by it, and amazed afterwards that i wasn't shocked by the language or the content and not because i have been de-sensitised to this sort of thing but because it is language that is used every day and content that you see everyday. i was truly amazed by this film, the only word i can use for it is brutal, brutal and honest. it made me look at myself, my relationships, the way i behave. but above all it is the first film i have ever seen that is 100% BELIEVABLE.