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- From: timbomb@cs.uq.oz.au (Tim Mansfield)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: _Making Love_
- Message-ID: <11082@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 05:24:39 GMT
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- In <1dmmluINNdq2@cuda.add.itg.ti.com> wink.NoSubdomain.NoDomain writes:
- >I have a few gripes about _Making Love_. Just wondering what y'all think...
- >Synopsis:
- >(het)Couple married 8 years. Yuppie. She's a tv programming type, he's a
- >doctor. All of a sudden, he's attracted to other men. He tries it out, likes
- >it, and finally tells his wife about it. He subsequently stays at a motel for
- >a while. She thinks it over and tries to talk to him. He's already decided
- >that thier marriage is over. Divorce. ...years later... She's remarried, he's
- >got a man. Everyone's happy. The End.
-
- Yeah, it sucked. Like how come they were happily married for so many
- years with an (apparently) burgeoning sex life and then suddenly he
- doesn't want to hjave anything to do with her anymore? I mean I know
- some married people feel that when they come out, but I would have
- preferred a little more exploration of the issues (since it was
- virtually a docu-drama).
-
- ALSO (ARGH!) _that_ scene where He (the husband) is going on to his wife about
- "I think maybe I need approval from men" etc etc and she's practically
- hysterical and he doesn't say "I still care for you this doesn't mean
- I don't like you or want you anymore, this is just a new thing" he
- just ignores her and keep warbling on with his fascinating new
- theories about his new-found sexuality... and she gets justifiably
- upset.
-
- God. I mean I loved it because it was one of the first gay positive
- films I ever saw when I was in high school (on video...), but talk
- about Bi-invisibility...
-
- I read that now when anyone discusses gay/lesbian positive films in
- maninstream Hollywood, executive X responds with "yeah, but what about
- _Making_Love_?" Apparently, it sank like a stone.
-
- That's mine.
-
- tim
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- Tim Mansfield timbomb@cs.uq.oz.au
- Dept of Comp Sci, Uni of Qld, Australia, 4072 +61 (0)7 365 2956
- "Nothing is wrong with the idea that there would be a God...
- who changes the water." mvs@softway.oz (Mark V. Shaney)
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