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My Tivo must be really "intuned" to me, cause the little bastar% taped the movie "Closer" for me the other night without me asking it to. The thing NOW tapes things for me it thinks I would like. It is right "alot" of the time. The day it starts taping "queer eye for the straight guy" is the day I go back to digital cable though. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> The movie has Jude Law and Julia Roberts in it. Long and short of it, it is about infidelity, and it is quite sad. I thought the movie captured the true essence of "betrayal" quite well. There was certainly no glamourizing of affairs. In the end, the viewer has a strong sense of despair and sadness. I didn't like the movie, but maybe your not suppposed to "like it" and the feeling one has when watching it is indeed "correct". I wouldn't recommmend this movie at all for those still "dealing" with the emotional turmoil of infidelity. It probably will be quite triggering. Lem <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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Wow...Jude law and Julia R?
Must have been an accurate depiction since BOTH are cheaters in real life.
I remember when my girlfriends had me watch movie "Enough"...I ran out of the theater...
And that was a few years back. I sure was not ready for it. Think I am not ready for it either now.
I hope your Tivo behaves btw...Oh tivo...DOOOOO BEHAVE!
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I wouldn't recommmend this movie at all for those still "dealing" with the emotional turmoil of infidelity. It probably will be quite triggering. Kinda like the treat I got when I was invited to spend some time with my then WW to watch the TV drama, "Cheaters" with her a week or so after D-Day. Ooooch! Mr. Wondering
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quote] I wouldn't recommmend this movie at all for those still "dealing" with the emotional turmoil of infidelity. It probably will be quite triggering. Kinda like the treat I got when I was invited to spend some time with my then WW to watch the TV drama, "Cheaters" with her a week or so after D-Day. Ooooch! Mr. Wondering [/quote] Funny you should mention this Mr Wondering. My Tivo also treated me to an episode of Cheaters in the past. That show is so frigging stupid....the show portrays itself as an advocate to the Betrayed, but it really is just a wrapped up "Jerry Springer reality show", preying on the usually ignorant and uneducated. Lem
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Yea...and the guy is anything but sympathetic.
I went out a few mos. back with my friends...came home...had a buzz (again due to very good wine at "The Grape"...friends drove me home) and all that was on was this stuuupid show.
The guy must be trying to incite a riot or something.
I think it was borderline hilarious though. All that drama just because some girls' bf was cheating. No marriage. No kids. Just some girl and her bf of maybe six mos? And they play it like it's an eternity? And it ws funny with all the heavy TV/news lighting and chasing down with cameras and microphones. HIlarious! The poor guy (cheater)...well not poor guy...he was wrong. But it served him right. Wish all WS would think that maybe we'd call the cheaters' crew after them...
My xh would have loved it though. He would have thought some hollywood producer would have seen his face and sworn he found Alec Baldwin's lookalike...bleech!
I am off to have some fun!
Get my [censored] kicked by my son in "Scene it"!
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There is one scene in Closer that I like. Alice (Natalie Portman) is asking her boyfriend about why he had an affair and says something like “there is always that split second you have to say no – to walk away. No matter what the conditions are like – you always have that second”.
For me that scene makes the movie. There is so much truth in that. No matter how drunk, infatuated, sex starved or smitten the WS is there is always that second where the decision to cheat is made.
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There is one scene in Closer that I like. Alice (Natalie Portman) is asking her boyfriend about why he had an affair and says something like “there is always that split second you have to say no – to walk away. No matter what the conditions are like – you always have that second”.
For me that scene makes the movie. There is so much truth in that. No matter how drunk, infatuated, sex starved or smitten the WS is there is always that second where the decision to cheat is made. Bigger: Nice call. I thought the same thing to myself when I was watching the movie. That statement had a profound effect on me. It was "spot on" there. Lem
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Funny how once you're suffering, things are WAY too apparent/coincidental in the entertainment industry. I once suffered from panic attacks... Next thing I knew, there was references to heart attacks and such, EVERYWHERE. Ergo, it's a matter of perspective, really. Right? The sense of despair and sadness is yours. For me, that movie may be enlightening, liberating.... or eye opening. To you, it dredges up unwanton feelings. One movie I would recommend for all here: What Dreams May Come.
End? No, the journey doesn't end here.
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[quote]There is one scene in Closer that I like. Alice (Natalie Portman) is asking her boyfriend about why he had an affair and says something like “there is always that split second you have to say no – to walk away. No matter what the conditions are like – you always have that second”.
// I had to walk out of the movie...the language and disgust of it all. As a repentent fww...it made me sick. Really disturbed me for a long time. I know I have changed but associations of that magnitude remind me of the shame. As for the above quote...I remember the conviction of it when I heard it. Too true. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> Brandi
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Yes,, I agree. I liked that Scene too....
Very rightly said........
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Try LANTANA it is an Australian movie re infidelity it captures the barren landscape of a marriage sacrificed to a casual affair,
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