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Chloe

‘Chloe’ draws generously from a number of successful films for its plot and characters. Liam Neeson plays a college professor who is suspected of cheating by his wife Catherine Stewart (Julianne Moore). Moore hires a high profile call girl called Chloe (Amanda Seyfried). Catherine lets loose Chloe on her husband, hoping to trap him when he is cheating on her. But things don’t work out as Catherine would have wanted. She misjudges the character of Chloe.

Chloe may be a glamorous prostitute hobnobbing in the bars and clubs but at the core she is a sociopath. She’s looking more than just money in her escapades with affluent business tycoons. Catherine is soon abandoning her ideas of catching her husband in the act and protecting her family from Chloe’s ravages. Catherine also has a sex-depraved son to protect from Chloe’s advances. What started off as a controlled exercise soon becomes a misguided missile hurtling towards Catherine at full blast.

The appeal of the movie is in the character of Chloe. Amanda Seyfried does a good job of the seductive scenes. She bares more than ever, serenading effortlessly as a consort. Liam Neeson could have done with some more screen time, but the writers probably changed the screenplay to make way for him to grieve over his wife’s untimely death. ‘Chloe’ may not be path-breaking cinema, but it does have certain unique elements, including a lesbian relationship between Catherine and Chloe. A leaner screenwriting could have made it the ‘Basic Instinct’ of our times.

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