9/10

Rating: 9/10 (10 January 2005)

Closer is one of the only movies I've ever seen that can't be trivialized by any standardization or gist. The depth of the characters is so intense and vivid that it takes over any ostensible plot. It's not so much one should really care about who ends up with whom, but rather the focus is on the extreme emotional vacillations of any form of intimacy. I think the intricacies and subtleties of life in any meaningful relationship, whether dysfunctional or not, poses not only so many questions psychologically, but artistically as well. One of the most lasting impressions thus far is the movie's portrayal of love as an outpouring of almost every other emotion fathomable which coexists with any given emotional extreme. Thus, this movie becomes beautiful as it is swollen.