Breakthrough event in cinematography

Rating: 10/10 (12 February 2006)

The book, The Joy of Sex, defined bisexuality as the normal human condition. It said that what is abnormal about people who are homosexual (a term, BTW that ought to be applied to either gender) is not that they are attracted to people of their own gender, but that they have an aversion to the other gender.
Everything makes more sense if we look at human sexuality as a spectrum from the people who are only attracted to their own gender, ranging through the (majority) middle ground of people who may have a preference one way or the other but could go either way, depending on a number of factors, through the people on the other end of the spectrum, who are only attracted to the other gender than the one they are. Looking at it like this, we do not have to get into big debates on "whether someone is really gay or not". Most human beings are in the middle somewhere. Understanding and tolerance of that fact will go a long, long way toward making this world a more reasonable and happy place to live.
In spite of the fact that the editing is quite jerky and choppy in places and could have been greatly improved upon, this is one of the best movies I have ever seen. The two main actors and the two main supporting actresses all did outstanding jobs of subtly portraying profound emotion. The film has the aesthetics (and I am not talking about the scenery), depth of story, character and the layers of meaning that make true art.