I liked Closer well enough when I first saw it, but it's since become something close to a touchstone for me, or at the very least a frequent point of reference, in art (egs 1, 2, 3) and in life, as its virtues (most notably the brutal, cutting truth of it - a truth that is no less true for being far from universal) have grown in my mind and, I guess, it has, in some respects, become more real for me.
Sometimes rewatching a film that has undergone this kind of personal reassessment since its first (or more recent) watching leads to disappointment, but if anything Closer was even better than I'd come to remember. I still can't quite put my finger on why I like the film so much, but obviously something about it resonates.
