I saw
Closer
and my two overwhelming reactions were ... damn, who do I have to kill to get an opportunity to photograph Jude Law, and that Clive Owen is a scary beast.
Then I took a few moments to consider the razors in the voices and the pain and exhaustion in the eyes of a Clive Owen or a Sean Bean, and I raised another prayer for Constantine.
I can't even
read
the word
Closer
without having an intense emotional reaction. I think that means I liked the movie an awful lot, but I just don't feel quite right about outright saying it.
Then I took a few moments to consider the razors in the voices and the pain and exhaustion in the eyes of a Clive Owen or a Sean Bean, and I raised another prayer for Constantine.
Mom! ita's making me all bitter again!
Sorry, Anne.
Closer
question:
Does Jane die at the end?
It didn't occur to me that she might have until I skimmed upthread. Did I miss something?
ita, she does in the play.
But does she in the movie?
I'm not sure. I think that it can be reasonably inferred from the last shot of her -- if you look, she's crossing against the light without checking for cars, and if I remember right you can hear sirens as the screen fades to black. But I saw the movie knowng how the play ends, so I may have been reading that into what was intended as an ambiguous scene.
Sorry, that sounded snippy. When I scanned upthread it didn't seem sure if that had made it from one medium to the other. I was so busy laughing (IMDB has the movie listed as a comedy!) at the
reactions of the guys she passed
that I may have tuned that out.
I thought it was a very unstagey adaptation, all told. Some of the staccato tempo reminded me of theatre (lots of one word responses), but not definitively so. It would have taken me until late in the movie to guess it was from a play. Unlike, say, a
Jeffrey.
I didn't read you as snippy at all, so no worries.
But does she in the movie?
In the movie
the last shot is her stepping out into traffic. I think they leave it kind of ambiguous what happens then.