Blowers Daughter
Mood:
flirty
Topic: Entertainment
Who do you think this blog entry is for?
A few days ago I had watched this film on DVD called 'Closer' and felt so stupid, ridiculous;
I mean it is based on this Broadway play, ( Patrick Marber's "highly acclaimed" stage play)
and the play supposedly has
undercurrents all about sex and politics, but they do not touch
on
this 2much in the film...
but it was a really good film, a touching
music video on it too, beautifully rendered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHPTHP4dihA
But after it was over I just feel like:
(to quote as I actually read in this womans
magazine once) : "in such a funk"
One part, at least one part, was just so
laughably ridiculously raucously funny,- but the film
itself was so ultra serious..its hard to not appreciate
it for what was put into it: a lot of effort and it
pulls off something that other films can't answer to
Even though it has that 'internet element' embedded
in the story line, it's not a film that people will end
up taking time to talk about, remember and re-live
The character played by Jude Law is a writer of
sorts, sort of a failed writer, an English one.
He accidentally sets up this fateful meeting
between an American photographer (played by
Julia Roberts) and a English Dr.(dermatologist
played by Clive Owen) over the Internet (a bad joke, just see the film on dvd, k?)
But not before he meets and falls in love
with his muse, another visiting American (the film is set in London)played by Natalie Portman
Anyway, the film shows the intersecting portions
of their lives and its really neatly done
I had a thought watching this film about how
suitable it would be for anyone who wanted
to pontificate more deeply on the joking idealization
of what a man considers to be the perfect mate:
a woman who can be a
a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen
and a whore in the bedroom (jah, seriously)
and our (American vs British) differing attitudes towards love and sex and maybe this is
where the politics seeps in...America was born both by a seperation desire and a quest for furtherness
But I conceded it was JUST a film; a movie
a vicarious type distraction to relieve boredom
..fill in some blank space
I had to repress the notion to run and blog it
and blah blah blah on about its relevance
to this internet fuelled contemporary
society we live...but here it is a few days later blogged
But the ending, and I guess thats what matters,
was really good....the girl at the end gets to save
the whole film and redeems everyone elses
despicability and horribleness
I get the feeling this film sums up what people
have been trying to form the words
to, words previously they would
have trouble getting their mouths to form,
express their minds about for a long time now
It could get staunchly moralistic people not to
change their minds, but at least re-think their attitudes
if only they were not so dead set about knowing right
about everything and stuck in tracks of being judgemental....
and be more staunchly honest in self-appraisal
and its funny now that I think about it its like
life. LIFE doesnt have a happy ending. It's life.
And the film 'Closer' didn't try to fool me.
Or actually more like it did. Its surprising
to realize that is that what we still think
movies are about? Happy endings?
IN the end, the girl re-discovers her happiness.
Not finding it for the first time. And certainly not
finding it for the first time at the end
of the movie.
You see in the film/movie of the play 'Closer'..people DO love each other, even
as they DO bounce off of each other and other
peoples security bubbles and existences.
And they agree to it. And then they say
afterwards that they do. After the fact.
Its confusing because this is the INterNet
age after all and the film doesn't
discount that fact but doesn't overplay
or try to "just squeeze it for its juice", or make
light of it but it subtly acknowledges it
with barely a notable reference or two...
but at the end
you realize..the whole film is based on
lives touched by what happens with people
interacting online...and our general
sense of appreciation for truth.
But it doesnt say so.
Its far too intelligent for that to happen.
If nothing else, see it because its the only
film starring the beautiful Ms. Julia Robertson you haven't seen.
Yah, old whats her name...hahaha.
- -
More for your money...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2izKHG33o4
Posted by mach1231
at 2:50 AM PST
Updated: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:13 AM PST
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