It overturned my view on LOVE

Rating: Null/10 (26 April 2009)

Love is so complicated especially it involves four people. Though I am not sure whether the relationship among them could be called LOVE!
My preconceived idea about LOVE is that it is not just about possession, it is also about tolerance. From this perspective I think Alice is my favorite character. In the photography-room she learns that Dan has feelings for Anna, but she can continue her life with him regardless of that. Compared with Alice, the two male characters are totally selfish and irresponsible. First when Larry knows that Anna had sex with Dan, he was almost freak out and asks every detail about their sex. Oh, this makes me sick! He just wants to stand at a moral height and make Anna feel guilty about her betrayal by recalling those details. Then he meets a stripper who is actually Alice. The fire of revenge in his heart begins to burn. When Dan learns that Anna gets her liberty by having sex with her husband, he could not bear. Maybe Larry knows man like Dan, is just selfish as him, so he knows how things will work out.
The name of the movie is called Closer. What's the deep meaning of the name? Maybe the director tries to tell us that love looks beautiful, but when you get closer, everything collapse. Love is only about biting, brutal and much more about sexual urges.This may pollute our idealistic expectation about love, but this is more Closer to the essence of love. After all, love is not as great as most people think it might be!