Life in a nutshell

Rating: 8/10 (23 January 2017)

People are weird. Even if they love someone, they can't help hurting those people and themselves in addition. And the rest is just happening on a pure whim of chance or is simply secondary. And that's it.
Seriously, expecting some moral lesson or a message from Closer is like having the same expectations about a Cohen brother film. There simply are none, that's just life. Less ironic as the brothers tend to depict it, but still both bizarre and inexplicably believable. Every single weird action or an illogical conversation is much more realistic than a thousand things we find reasonable. And that's the beauty of this film.
It goes a bit over the top at times, purely for the dramatic effect, but that's the only imperfection this film affords itself. Oh, and sliding from light irony to pure intensity towards the climax. It didn't make this film any false, but darkened the mood enough to think that maybe life would be better without certain moments. Although if there's still something remotely resembling a message in this film is that no events are good or bad on their own and the beauty of this world is that even becoming a victim of a nasty prank might be a way to finding true happiness in your life.
Nobody knows what will happen to them and to those they love the next moment. And sometimes it's even better not to know: too much truth could be poisonous. So just enjoy being happy fools, because the ignorant bliss is more fragile than you think.