Closer

And so it is...

It has been a while since I had seen "Closer" by Mike Nichols. I had seen many more movies which I should write about here.

But. I had just closed a chapter in my life, directly related with life away from my circle of best friends and family. I met another best friends but after 6 months I am emotionally exhausted. Decided to sort out quantities of my stuff and found souvenirs and memoirs and many other things.

Have noticed how often one ends up clinged in a situation when it seems impossible not to get hurt because you have a ringing bell in your brain. Some people decide to listen to a ringing bell some decide to ignore it. Some yet decide to fight.

The director shows several of characters mutually involved in a romance. An affair starts between a lost guy who saves a young girl from some accident ( brilliant Natalie Portman here). Soon after he is bored with a heart given up to him on a plate and moves on an affair with a silent mysterious photographer (Julia Roberts) who thanks to our mr Lost (Jude Law) meets her husband (Clive Owen).

"Quit the crap" heard I from one close Dutch friend recently "if you want something you get it. As long as you believe in it you fight for it. You lose or you win but you fight".

Very soon betrayed husband finds out his wife's cheating actions and enraged makes a show of anger and jealousy on her. But suprisingly the director wants us not to see how he quits with dignity but how he fights her back. How he uses the very fact of a bond between a man and a woman and he fights her back successfully.

Mr Lost who ends up as Mr Looser in this moment returns to what he had rejected earlier, a young girl freshly heartbroken who unfortunately had sex with everyone would thought "honest and thuggish" Mr Husband in a moment of weakness. Rejected once again, Alice walks off in a crowd of people just as she walked in in the initial scenes. What happens with her later? Does her young inexperienced heart ever recover? Who does she become? That we do not know, this is the question the director leaves to be answered by everyone individually.

Despite enormous volume of pain it is still a movie of hope. It is subconsciouslly suggested to us. The dominant color in the movie is green, all shades of green including greenlike water in the aquarium, or greenlike surroundings of the streets and apartments. Green is a color of hope.

When Alice walks away she wins. Mr Lost stays himself alone first time ever crying because games after all, do not pay off.

Alice walks away to start over and to leave the chapter called "mistakes" behind her. 

This all had come to my mind when l was watching Damien Rice today. Long time ago someone had send me a link and told me to watch a movie. 

And so it is... just like you said it should be...