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In Reply to: Closer - did anyone actually like this film? posted by EdM on April 4, 2005 at 15:26:37:
I too enjoyed this film. I think that this was Portman's best performance, requiring her to believably project a range of emotions, which still was able to do. This role estalblishes her as an actress with more to offer than a pretty face.I actually thought everyone in the film did a good job. Their roles are not the ones that require "great acting", but rather chemistry and competence, and they succeeded.
The film is not boring if one likes intelligently written dialog, which is increasingly rare in film. More and more filmgoers do not want to see a film which is mostly comprised of people talking. There are no explosions, no intrigue, no surprises, no exotoc locations. Just intelligent people taken over by their emotions, talking.
And the scene with Jude Law and Clive Owen on the computer was a hoot.
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like two horny guys pretending to be something they're not on the web? Seemed pretty juvenile to me.As far as POrtman, I think she came off as juvenile as well. Like a 13 year old trying to be 30. In fact she acted older in the Professional- when she was 12.
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I think that vulgarity can be written intelligently. It was crude. But very funny. When I say intelligently written, I mean the the dialog struck me as being authentic for the situation. Things that real people would say under the circumstances.Case in point: The scene where Owen and Roberts are in the aquarium. Typical convention would have them both confused, and drag the misunderstanding beyond all bounds of realism. I thought that the scene was handled very well. Two intelligent people getting to the core of the problem, so that the meeting did not become schtick.
I never thought Portman played thirteen. I thought she played her stated age. I do not think that she was trying to play thirty. She is in London, nowhere to live, no marketable skills, so she strips. I not claim to be an expert on the stipping industry, but it seems to me that there is more of a market for twenty year old strippers than thirty year old strippers. Where I thought that she did a good job was in the range of emotions that she was asked to convey. From desperate, to madly in love, to disappointed, to angry, to jealous. Her emotional arc was subtantially wider than any other actor in the film. I found her performance to be surprising, given that I have found most of her previous roles rather boring, and her earlier films purpose being to break her as the next big thing.
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