This movie changed my stance on homosexuality.

unless you are an older person who may have lost the love of your life I don't think you can make any prediction or your opinion matters in this case. I thought it was kind of funny because to me what they set up was Sarandon and her coworker being Thelma and Louise, who weren't lesbians but were partners in crime who kind of completed one another.

The point was that, they might not be sexually attracted to one another, but they get along and like each other as humans on earth, and sometimes the companionship and the compassion of another person is enough to satisfy you. Much easier to set this up and end the movie than actually play it out and see what happens, because I think the only way it goes is they eventually become lesbians, having sex with each other, or it doesnt work out. Sarandon never falls for her coworker but the coworker is in love with her. The coworker would get her heart broken for sure.

You are a bigoted ass munch, dude. I hope one day you meet the wrong gay guy and he kicks your sorry ass to a bloody pulp.

I really think this movie is about loss, pain, loneliness and how people cope with it. And basically there is no right or wrong way, just as long as you keep moving forward.



Follow me on twitter @sydsmoviepicks

[deleted]

Support gay rights all you want, but do not change your mind because of this movie. There are so many other movies that done a much better job with it.

"For me it really is binary."

Exactly, for you.

I remember back in high school i had a really good friend named Mark. To relate it to the movie you could say he really "got me" and i really got him. I considered (and still do) myself as a heterosexual, but he had such a huge impact on my life that when i look back at it i can't help but compare it to having a crush on someone. Though it's not like i was walking on air, in fact a lot of the time he actually annoyed me. I might have to add that the "attraction" was never physical. A few years later it came up when i was talking to my psychiatrist, and she explained to me that i might in fact have been in a little in love with him, but that it probably had more to do with where I was in my life than with any kind of romantic attraction. We're very good friends today, and i have (thankfully) discarded all those complicated feelings i had back then, of course i haven't told him about it 'cause he doesn't need to know.

My point is that even though you think of yourself as heterosexual it is possible that you can create bond with another person that is even stronger than one you would have with a person you're physically intimate with. Think of people in the army, or twins, or generally just people who have been through a lot together.

The physical part is another thing, some have an easy time getting physical with a person of the same sex, while most people find it a bit repulsing. I have met gay guys who used to think of same-gender sex as a disgusting thing, though they learned to enjoy it when they did it with the right people. Another argument is relationships between prisoners and the ones between the ancient greeks. There was a lot of gay sex in Greece, but was that because they had a higher percentage of homosexuals? Unlikely. In prisons in-mates learn to satisfy each other because there simply are no females around. These are of course extremeties, but i believe they are still worthy of mentioning.

Experimentation between women is a lot more prevalent than between men, i guess they just aren't as grossed out by the thought as much as men, but what do i know, i just looked at some numbers.

What i am trying to say is that although the 'hetero', 'bi' and 'homo'- boxes are pratical, and in most cases fitting, they don't really give you the whole picture.