I wasn't ready for it. I knew that deep down inside I was not ready. This wasn't going to be as simple as sitting through Maid In Manhattan, where I had the option of leaving if I felt like it. This was going to be intense, no leaving. Sure I could stop thinking about the movie when it was over if I wanted to, I could try that yes. But that wouldn't be honest. Plus I don't want Natalie Portman to think I'm a git; or maybe she'll think I'm a dork for thinking about the movie . . . hmmm. Anyway, I'm left with one nagging question to which I haven't been clever enough to figure out the answer: Closer? Closer to what? WHAT DOES THIS TITLE MEAN!
Approprately I have a similar question about the movie's bookend song 'Blewer's Daughter' by Damien Rice. I've had this song in my head for like a month. I'll be walking down the sidewalk and I'll just start singing to myself, "And so it is . . . " although I'm not exactly sure what IT is or how it is SO. Plus, being the American boor I am, I don't know what a blewer is, and since I'm temporarily a Hawaiian I'm too lazy to look it up. So all in all, I'm confused by this title as well.
Also to note, disappointed in a good way that "Caramel" which was so effectively used in this movie's preview was not played during the movie at all. And what was perhaps the best use EVER of "How Soon Is Now?" in a piece of media (except for that KSCL DJ who first played it while I was listening to the radio, causing me to spiral steeply into the music of Morrissey and then The Smiths). A song which is normally used in the most heinous of fashions.
Posted by tdupuy at December 4, 2004 5:22 AMI can't exactly tell what your feelings about the movie are. I'll share mine once you express your feelings.
Posted by: Lara at December 9, 2004 1:07 PMHi Lara, in answer to your query I don't know exactly what my feelings about the movie are. I left feeling very disturbed, moved maybe. Other than that I can't say. I debated vigorously with my moviegoing companions which character was right in doing this or that. Who was at fault. It seems completely ambiguous, which is actually sort of "refreshing." I hate it when people use that word in describing a movie, well any vaguely artistic work, but especially movies. Anyway, the movie offers someone like me both solace and a sense of hopelessness, and I tend to believe in both those things.
Posted by: Trent at December 10, 2004 5:27 AM