Closer (2004)

Closer to crap than gold

Maybe I'm an idiot but I did not get what this movie was about. It seemed to me it was just four people screwing with each other's love lives. Who cares? It was boring. There were huge jumps in time where you didn't know where you were now. Lots of important scenes were cut out and you only got the information from the mouths of characters you couldn't trust as far as you could throw them. But then you got the same information from others and so now the audience feels as if they are being purposely let out of the circle. This is not a movie. It's the perfect example of elitism and that's probably why critics like Ebert love it so much. The viewer is not meant to come away with anything more than people are deceitful (which is a fair assumption to make when you're sleeping around with men and women you meet on the internet, or on the street, or in a stripper's bar). This movie suffers from the fact that the characters are putting way too much trust in people they never should have trusted in the first place. The relationships were totally undeveloped and so I didn't understand how they felt about each other in the first place or how they got to the point where they would want to live together. Thus, it's not a movie because when watching a real movie you would never feel that way. As much as people claim otherwise, a sign of a bad movie is a feeling of detachment from what you are watching.

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