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Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)
Three steps forward
I think this movie could be watched anytime with the eyes of an over-rated audience only seeking for entertainment, which is the first element that appeared in it: we see trough the concern of Jessica's mother and friends to a 28 years-old journalist who cannot settle herself down in a relationship, as she goes dating and facing her own difficulties to find The One.
Then we know Helen, and only God knows why she have decided to experience all the wings of love. Sure this wouldn't be an easy path among flowers, and this is what she'll discover after a searched carefully by casual encounter with Jessica.
As I ain't supposed to tell you all the twists and key access to whatever this movie has to offer, I'll let you find out by yourself. Only for the record, remember that Helen has tasted life in a number of ways and Jessica has been having nothing but loving mix-ups and provoked more disillusions around her that she can manage.
To end with a fine anecdotal touch, the advise that Helen gave to Jessica as they were in process of knowing each other: "You won't find it [for "The One" color of lipstick]... combine them all". There she goes again: as she does with her sexual needs with former three lover men, she prefers the conjunction of three different types of lipsticks. You will get it from here...
Screen Two: Nervous Energy (1995)
Road to death
Once you've finished of seeing the entire movie, you're close of acquiring a clue on life itself. Have you ever felt powerless, angered but frightened to death at the same time?
Look at this one tragic example trough the x-ray of Tom Kelso, deeply characterized by Cal Macaninch, who happens to be a man, at that time we discover he is gay, who has known the variety of feelings that our wild world give to ourselves: the anguish of being left of side by the near and the complex process of taking distance and to move away to find new horizons of life.
But to the young Tom is difficult to read the signals when all crumbles down around him. In the end he infects himself of AIDS and simultaneously he's abandoned again.
Now meet Ira Moss -fabulously interpreted by Alfred Molina-, and join our trip to the endless battle against sickness. To find out how it finishes, you've got to trust: Love conquers all.
I highly recommend you to see this movie. Enjoy yourself!
Get Real (1998)
Very crude reality
i have read comments of this very movie that tell me how nice is the same impression that leads me to conclude this is a high recommended movie for all of you, looking for an enterteinment which in deed won't let you down, wheather you are keen to this genre (dramatic comedy) or you're expecting to see the crude umconfortable way -without any euphemism- that life itself is. For you who didn't see this movie yet, i have to tell you how the storyline goes: Steven Carter (Ben Silverstone) is a young man who has recongnized himself as homosexual, and has got the same problem that all boys at his age happen to have. Then we see his surroundings as non-very estimulating for any growing up-being, and the friends, school, parents, and his own needs that take please in that part of the movie, show you how far is the present world to accept everyone in equally of conditions and circumstances. For finish, I'm gonna say that if you haven't already seen this movie, you have to, as a duty to yourself, and I hope you could agree with me, regardless of whose that excuse the character of John Dixon (Brad Gorton), because and in their words "he had more things -than Steven- to left behind him", that is so wrong, and it had been established when our hero left behind him... his first real love.