Hang in there, I told myself

Rating: Null/10 (30 January 2006)

"Closer" (2004): Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Juia Roberts, and, I'm sorry, I've forgotten the name of the other male lead, with Mike Nichols directing. As the film got rolling, I felt I was seeing too many plot and character clichés. "Why am I being shown all this?" I asked myself. "Hang in there," I told myself, "it'll clarify itself." By god, it did. We are presented with four strangers who meet under completely random circumstances, and begin pursuing artificial relationships...but like a Rubic's Cube, every time they seem to have "sided"  gotten CLOSER  they each, in their own pathetic, well-crafted fashion, set about to ruin it. Do I see a progression towards honest self-awareness? Hmm...I think so. "Hang in there," I told myself. Then they twist the Cube again. "Maybe THIS is it this time," I ponder. While watching "Closer", I went from ambivalence to thinking it was quite good.