hetero liberal approves

Rating: 8/10 (11 November 2004)

First, I liked the use of flashback; cartoon; & the hyper-real, as in the inclusion of babies, the tour meetings, the pseudo documentary scenes. It might be criticism that the plot premise is established in the first 15 mins, and where do you go from there? But, 'Story of Love' cements the plot as a quest for the other 1/2, and that held my interest thereafter. I liked the knowing humour, like: - You Kant always get what you want, wrt to German philosophy I liked the way, in the scenes depicting the first expressions of overt homoeroticicsm {not sure if this is the term}, sarcastic use was made of homoerotic symbolism, so obvious, so symbolic, so obvious it was laughable, it made fun of those who want to find deep symbolism in movies like this (the gummi bears scene). I liked the Country music parody scene, though I wondered about suspension of disbelief when the music carried on while the musicians were fighting?! To those who have compared this movie to 'Rocky Horror', I would say forget it, that movie had transsexualism, but this movie is far more about it I thought it slowed a bit in the middle, but on the whole was pretty good. A lesson to all those securely heterosexual people who think they are common, but forget there are rarer birds; and an inspiration to all those rarities.