Closer

Have you ever seen someone eating orange by peeling the skin, let all the delicious orange flesh exposed, then, take a small bite and allow the juice splash all over the place? This is not the most elegant way to eat an orange but it happens everyday. Some people just like it this way (including me). I wouldn’t think this is disgusting but it would make one unsettle if this vision of someone eating orange and getting dirty is shown in a fine macro view. Watching the movie, “Closer”, gave me the same feeling. This movie is genuinely a classic that amazingly pulled a web of strangers into intimacy, confusion and betrayal relationship. It also brutally revealed the reality of insecurity one could be. Things like these are happening around us everyday and it is part of life. And now, this movie showed it all, in a fine macro fashion. It intensely provoked my thought from start to end.

"It's a lie, a bunch of sad strangers photographed beautifully, so the art gallery crowd can feel better about it.” Alice (Natalie Portman) commented that photograph hides reality by making something that isn’t beautiful appear beautiful and therefore spectator can feel good about themselves. This is more or less what the movie about. If you hate to confront the truth of life and hate to think, don’t watch this movie. Otherwise, this is a must see movie.

p/s: Also try the background music, “The Blower’s Daughter” by Damien Rice. It is a really good contemporary folk song.