Im on a roll with these blogs! So Sunday evening before my flight home I watched Closer, a fantastic film if anyone hasn't seen it. “You women don't understand the territory. Because you are the territory.” This INCREDIBLE line spoken by Larry introduces the dynamic relationships presented in this film. The couples Larry and Anna, and Dan and Alice reflect how different personalities experience relational transitions in romance. I love the romance stories in this film and have viewed it many, many times. I never felt that religious love in it until we learned about the eros love, the passionate and exotic found between all the characters.
Alice is a youthful, feminine girl who is literally swept off her feet by the strikingly handsome Dan. Alice and Dan begin their interactions by making eye contact on the street, a superficial connection based solely on appearance. This affinity towards Alice was so strong that Dan put his life in danger to save hers, a powerful eros. He rescues her on the streets of London as she falls into oncoming traffic, both suffering from love at first sight.
The territory in a relationship can be loosely or tightly respected as seen in this films relationship juggling of partners. As Larry stated that women are the territory in a relationship, he shows that men are specifically influenced by this more so than women because they actually “are the territory.” This is directly influenced by how masculine he is and the power of eros seen.
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