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[nny]

Um. Wow. Massively disappointed in Kissing Jessica Stein. It's not that I necessarily needed a lesbian happy ending, and it's not that I have anything against heterosexuality. It's just that I require a little more for a convincing happy ending than Some Bloke I've Known For A While.

The idea that lesbian relationships must be Worked On while heterosexual relationships just Fall Into Place reinforces a whole lot of received notions that I choose not to give the time of day, thankee.

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[indy-go.livejournal.com]

The idea that lesbian relationships must be Worked On while heterosexual relationships just Fall Into Place reinforces a whole lot of received notions that I choose not to give the time of day, thankee.

Granted, it's been literally years since I saw it, but I didn't see it as being lesbian relationships that needed more work than straight ones; I saw it as she just wasn't all that gay, even though she was doing a cool thing and stretching her perceived boundaries or whatever. So that's why her girl relationship seemed more forced than the guy one.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I guess... it was more Jessica that I had a problem with? Like, she wanted a best friend and couched that in terms of a relationship because it was more easily understandable, which is probably a problem with society rather than individuals. Makes me think that she wanted a Boston Marriage (http://www.msmagazine.com/june01/marriage.html) rather than a relationship, which I empathise with but which makes Helen unequivocally the one I had sympathy with.

Mostly my issue is that her mother's acceptance made me cry like a baby because that's what I want, and that ... no, I forget. Swear to god there was something vaguely sensical here but I accidentally drank.

I'm kind of panicking about lack of money for moving, so my Sensical is less than usual. ;)

[indy-go.livejournal.com]

Oh, totally, Helen had all my sympathies, because it did start to feel like Jessica was just jerking her around. You are sense-making, don't worry. :)

[telesilla.livejournal.com]

I hated that movie, as did the straight friend I saw it with. I felt like the whole thing came down to "all she needed was the Right Man." Not that edgy akshully.

[mercuriazs.livejournal.com]

I want to see the reverse movie: A "straight" girl trying to make it work with guys and then happily and blissfully falling into surprise lesbianism. Bonus points if it successfully satirized common hetero courting rituals.

[soupytwist.livejournal.com]

JESSICA IS SO IRRITATING IN THAT MOVIE. And like you said, I could totally get over that (she was working on it, and the stuff with her family made me way more sympathetic) if it wasn't for the utterly fuckin random nature of the ending. I just didn't CARE about that dude, there was no reason why she would either, and maybe they were going for a 'it's more complex than just gay or straight' (which, cool, yeah), but the ending did not do that concept justice imo at all.

[gramarye1971]

*seconds this, very much so*