CLOSURE
Closure
Rated: R
Special Features: None
Running Time: 80 minutes
There are always films that get released that never get attention and shoot straight to DVD.
Closure is one of those films that I just stumbled upon while out at the store and growing up with a crush on
Gillian Anderson, I had to pick it up to see what it was. The film turns out to be an exciting, yet disturbing thriller, which leaves some harsh visuals on the screen and in your head.
Anderson stars as Alice, a successful business woman, who we first meet as she is having a hi-tech security system installed in her apartment. Adam (Danny Dyer) is the guy installing the system who she invites to a business affair at her bosses house. Over the course of the night, the attraction between the two of them grows until they find themselves having sex in the forest behind the boss’ house. While driving home, another vehicle is in front of them and as they pass, Adam taunts the other vehicle with some lewd gestures. Alice and Adam hit a deer that jumps out at them. While pulling over to help the injured animal, they are overtaken by the mystery vehicle they passed. Three men get out of the vehicle and brutally beat Adam. Alice tries to get away, but she is dragged out of the car and brutally raped by the men. This event sends her down a path that causes her to obsess about revenge on the men who did this to her. The beating has left Adam without an eye and an inability to be romantic with Alice anymore. She sees one of the men riding a horse and follows him home. Adam plants some cameras in the man’s house and they learn things about the man including the fact that he has a daughter who lives with him.
One afternoon, while Alice is watching the man on the cameras, she sees that he is going to kill himself. She jumps in the car and races over to his house and finds him in the garage with a hose through the car window and slumped over the wheel. She pulls him out of the car and drags him back into his house. Adam sees her on the camera in the house and rushes over there to meet her. As the guy recovers, he tells her he was killing himself over the guilt he had for the event that transpired. We learn the reason he did it is because while in the car with the two other guys, they came across his daughter walking home and offer her a ride. He felt the other two guys were going to rape his daughter and to distract them; they went after Adam and Alice. Adam arrives and they tie up the guy and in a memorable scene, Alice exacts her revenge on the guy by anally raping him with the rifle she inherited. Adam wants her to pull the trigger and kill him. When she doesn’t, he grabs the guy and cuts out his eye. Alice runs out having done enough and drives away leaving Adam there. The other two friends show up at the house and Adam kills them both. Adam revels in the satisfaction of the revenge he has enacted even if it meant him losing Alice. Alice picks up the guy’s daughter as she is driving away and they head off together as the credits begin to roll.
The film being a straight to DVD release had no special features to be reviewed, but if you are looking for an interesting examination of the human psyche and aren’t faint of heart, it can’t hurt to spend 80 minutes and get
Closure.
