From: Shalon Wood <dstar@pele.cx>
Newsgroups: alt.fiction.original,alt.sex.stories.d
Subject: Re: {ASSD} (AFO) Kissing Jessica (Spoiler) (OT)
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 13:45:08 -0500
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Katie McN <katie@katie-mcn.com> writes:
> Hi Shalon Wood <dstar@pele.cx>,
>
> On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 08:43:38 -0500 I noticed your interesting post:
>
>>Katie McN <katie@katie-mcn.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi Everybody!
>>>
>>> From time to time I see a film where it's obvious the film makers seemed
>>> to know about the lesbian lifestyle. I just finished watching Kissing
>>> Jessica on Showtime (we never have films like that here first run in
>>> theaters) and I want to recommend it to all of you.
>>
>>Vel and I _hated_ that movie. It was great -- right up to the last
>>five minutes, where the screen shows '3 Months Later' and you see them
>>breaking up and her getting back with her ex-fiance.
>>
>>Yes, of _course_ they couldn't show anything like a previously
>>straight girl actually having a successful relationship. That five
>>minutes completely undermined the entire film; it changed the message
>>totally.
>>
>
> I hope anyone who will watch the movie missed your post and not have the
> ending ruined. ;-)
D'oh! Should have included a spoiler warning.
>
> The film was portraying problems that lesbians face. It has sparked an
> off-line lesbian chat and most of the FF people I know think the film
> did a good job with what the film makers had in mind. We would have
> thought it was a sell-out if it had ended with the women staying
> together even though we would love to have seen them live happily ever
> after - together.
Eh. I thought it was a sell out as it was -- can't scare the straights
by letting them think that she could have actually _enjoyed_ it. But
then, I get annoyed at the fact that as far as movies are concerned
bisexuals don't exist.
>
> There are many of us who have fallen in love with a hetero woman who is
> exploring the lesbian lifestyle. Later, the woman decides that she is
> going back to the straight life with little or no warning. The way it
> was shown in the film was pretty good and having the lesbian find
> someone new during that "3 months" skip forward in time was a nice touch
> which took some of the sadness away for me. I loved the red satin sheets
> BTW. A sure sign the women were into all out passion. ;-)
We've had that happen, too. Sometimes life sucks. But it doesn't
_always_ work out like that.
> BTW I really loved it when the frustrated lesbian was letting the
> straight girl have as long as she wanted before they got it on. The
> lesbian's remark, "Who do I have to blow to get some pussy around here?"
> is so cool.
There were some really good lines in that movie.
Shalon Wood