Closer

For those of you who haven't yet seen it, it's about falling in and out of love, and just how brutal that can be. Here's a few memorable lines to sum it up:

"Hello, stranger."

"I love you. I love everything about you that hurts."

"Don't stop loving me. I can see it draining out of you. It’s me, remember?"

"I don't love you anymore. Goodbye."

“Why isn’t love enough?”

Moving closer can be fearsome. For being closer to one thing inevitably means being farther from another. And it seems in the game of "love", when you gain some, you usually lose more. And too many times we wind up thinking "why do we do this to ourselves?" To pour oneself wholeheartedly into a relationship is very Shakespearean. But highschool English taught us that many a Shakespearean romantics die very tragic deaths. In fact, pouring oneself wholeheartedly into anything is a risk too great for the modern heroine.

Tragic enough, this fear continues to be easily justified, time-after-time. And one becomes overprotective of herself.

Mike Nichols tried to portray love as an accident waiting to happen. The problem is, playing safe tends to keep accidents at bay.