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How about you?

posted 18 years ago by howtokillyourlover
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I just saw this for the first time tonight - it was gonna be on BBC2 a while ago, but it wasn't 'cause of the golf! But as another post said, it was on tonight, and I watched it, and I loved it.

I cried the entire way through the first segment, smiled right through the last one and did a bit of both through the second one.

So, yeah. Basically, I just wanted to gush about it a bit!

Oh, and just out of curiosity - how many of you here are lesbians? Obviously, feel free not to answer if you don't want to. I'm not sure if this film was so amazing to me because I'm gay (I spent so much of the third segment thinking 'that could be me, someday'), or just because it WAS amazing.

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[–] IAmTheEnemy 18 years ago

I watched it that night and reacted exactly the same way! The first segment is heartbreaking and the mood picked up as the segments went on, and the whole film was just fantasic! I thought the performances were amazing and it was good to see the different issues that came up in different era's.

And to answer your other question, I'm a bi girl and currently in a relationship with a girl. But I think anyone who enjoys films which tackle controvesial issues can enjoy this film.

"If he gets up, we'll all get up. It'll be anarchy!"

[–] kotoayodeji 18 years ago

I only caught the last two segments. But was none the less impressed by both of them.
I found the love scenes, especially the ones in the final segment tender, touching and very convincingly done. It was interesting to watch as a man.

[–] juliah_hedberg 18 years ago

I like the movie since it portraid different lives of homosexuals. Different homosexual love. Sometimes it feels as if people look at homosexual love as one kind of love. But every story, every relationship is as unique as heterosexual love stories.

And btw I don't know if im bi or gay yet but im not hetero. that much i can tell:) i've only been in love once in my life and that was with a girl.

peace/Julia

- Mitt hjärta blir stort när jag tänker på er - :)

[–] mklsnake-1 18 years ago

I loved the movie. I watched it while deployed to Iraq with the 1st Infantry Division. I would like to shoot down a stereotype. I am a conservative, heterosexual male, and a veteran of 32 years in the U.S. Army. But I am also a parent, and know how much I love my sons, and will always love them regardless of sexual orientation. I am also the uncle of an openly lesbian young woman whom I love like a daughter. I think that negative attitudes toward gay people are only able to be maintained in ignorance and unfamiliarity. Once you start to see them as real people, the prejudices fall by the wayside. There are too many talented, interesting people out there who can enrich our lives, to let homophobia rule. I am saddened that so many of my countrymen are still so ignorant. That is the genius of this movie, that it does present lesbian women as real people.

[–] devoshica 18 years ago

mklsnake, I think what you wrote is beutifull, and i completly agree with you. I loved the movie, all 3 segments are in certain way uniqe...I liked 2 segment the most, it showed very well how lesbians were discriminated by feminist but lesbians also disriminated their "own", - butches...i think those 2 girls looked so real together:)
And btw, I am bisexual and I am attracted to "boyish" girls, and probably that is the reason why I was so furios from time to time waching 2 segment:P
Nobody expects Spanish inquisition:)

[–] vlfranklin1999 16 years ago

To reply to the original question of the post. I am a straight single woman. But I absolutely loved this movie. And to be honest, I have totally gotten into Lesbian films of late. I think you (well me actually) can blame it on Piper Perabo. I loved her in Imagine Me and You and thought it was one of the best love stories I had seen in a long, long time. I have seen a few others, Piper's Lost and Delirious (honestly I was a little disappointed in that one) but have also recently watched Bound and Loving Annabelle, It's like the "love story" aspect is better in the lebian films. Like I said, I am straight, but I find myself more turned on by these love scenes then most heterosexual love scenes. In most cases, the chemistry is so palpable the you could reach out and touch it. After watching this movie and reading a virtual spin-off series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I totally buy Michelle Williams in these lesbian roles and would love to see more of her in these type of roles. And she looks good as a brunette, don't you all think?

Any way, the reason I am replying to this particular post is I have to say AMEN to you mklsnake. That is a great attitude. and you're right, the US is so... what is the word? closeted? when it comes to homosexuality. I wish it were ok for people just to be people, and love who they love. Period. And before anyone bashes me for being anti-american (though i doubt any one would on this board) I am American, I was born in Ohio, and moved to Minnesota when I was 2 years old, so I have lived in the midwest my whole life, and it's sad. I can honestly say that I have only known one openly homosexual person my whole life. It was a young lady I once worked with and she was in a commited loving relationship. Now there are others who i suspected of being homosexual, but they never really discussed it or their prefferences. I'm 36 and to say I only know 1 openly gay person is just sad, because there are so many more out there.

[–] sauvage-2 16 years ago

Thank you so much, dear mklsnake-1.

[–] rhorhoda 17 years ago

I'm hetero but loved the movie :-)

[–] Shizuma_Nagisa 17 years ago

im a les and i like this movie

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[–] onlydebster-1 16 years ago

I absolutely loved this movie. The first segment made me cry my head off. (Why do I love THAT? lol!)
I am straight and looked at these purely as love stories - I think that it is important that we love, it doesn't matter WHO we love.

[–] kikirriki 12 years ago

I'm 27 male
and I'm not a lesbian :D

I liked the movie, especially part one, not only cuz I love Redgrave also the story was so touching. Part two was ok part three was boring.

One day I am going to grow wings.

[–] alexaw9 10 years ago

I'm a lesbian, 24 years old.

Each segment was interesting, but I liked them less as they went on.