Reply #77: "Closer" - pretentious, banal tripe [View All]

[WildEyedLiberal]

I just can't enjoy any movie in which I loathe all the main characters. :shrug:

Clive Owen was a raging asshole, Julia Roberts and Jude Law were pathetic flakes, and Natalie Portman's character was too "enigmatic" to bother with any character development. It was two and a half hours of four people being shitty to each other and uttering banal lines clearly intended to be profound, such as: "Have you ever seen a human heart? It's like a fist wrapped in blood."

"Closer" is full of such overreaching pretentious tripe masquerading as incisive commentary on human nature and relationships. I want my two hours and seven dollars back. x(