Closer (2004)

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Directed by: Mike Nichols

Starring: Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Clive Owen

Genres: Drama, Romance

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Dan: And you left him, just like that?
Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye."
Dan: Supposing you do still love them?
Alice: You don't leave.
Dan: You've never left someone you still love?
Alice: Nope.

Dan: You've ruined my life.
Anna: You'll get over it.

Alice: Why isn't love enough?

Larry: There's a girl out there who calls herself Venus, what's her real name?
Alice: Pluto.

Alice: Who was your last boyfriend?
Anna: My husband.
Alice: Was he English?
Anna: Very.

Anna: Don't stop loving me. I can see it draining out of you. It's me, remember? It was a stupid thing to do and it meant nothing. If you love me enough, you'll forgive me.

Larry: You think because you don't love us, or desire us, or even like us, you think you've won.
Alice: It's not a war.

Alice: No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?

Dan: So, he's a dermatologist. Can you get more boring than that?
Anna: Obituarist?
Dan: Failed novelist, please.

Alice: So this man comes into the café today, and he says, "Hey waitress, what are you waiting for?"
Dan: Funny guy.
Alice: So I go, "I'm waiting for a man to come in here and fuck me sideways with a beautiful line like that."
Dan: So what did he ask for?
Alice: He asked for a cup of tea with two sugars.

Larry: A good fight is never clean.

Larry: What does your cunt taste like?
Alice: Heaven.

Larry: But we're happy... Aren't we?

Larry: Of course she enjoyed it. As you know, she loves a guilty fuck.

Larry: So Anna tell me your bloke wrote a book. Any good?
Alice: Of course.
Larry: It's about you isn't it?
Alice: Some of me.
Larry: Oh? What did he leave out?
Alice: The truth.

Dan: What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

Larry: He's a stringy fucker.

Larry: I'm Larry, the doctor.
Anna: Hello, doctor Larry.
Larry: Feel free to call me The Sultan.

Dan: I love you, and I need a piss.

Alice: How can one man be so endlessly disappointing?
Dan: That's my charm.

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Mistakes

Continuity mistake: When Daniel is just about to leave Larry's office at the end of the film, Daniel is facing away from the door. In the next shot he is facing the other way. (01:25:55)

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Suggested correction: No he's not.

The mistake is valid. After Larry says "Buster", we see Dan standing at an angle with his back towards the opening of the door and doorknob and his left side closest to the door. In the next shot, he's turned more than 90° so that his right side is now closest to the door opening and doorknob.

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Trivia

Trivia: Natalie Portman considers this movie to be her first one that helped her get away from her "Star Wars image".

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Questions

Question: Is there a connection or special meaning when Dan asks 'Alice' during their last fight who she really is, and 'Alice' answers him "I'm nobody," and the fact that she is hiding her true identity as Jane Jones?

Answer: Anna says that Alice has "had quite a life" (after she read Dan's book that was based on Alice). Presumably Alice has been through difficult situations: abuse, neglect, etc. She considers herself a "nobody" and enjoys lying as a form of control. Which is why she never told Dan her real name, or everything about herself. She could never trust anybody completely. She also says "I'm the one who leaves." She prefers to leave men before they can leave her.

Answer: Yes there is a connection, but the exact meaning of it is deliberately left ambiguous as to why Alice/Jane kept her true identity hidden. It is up to the audience to interpret why she did this.

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