I was just back from this gay-themed movie. Surround by les couples(I mistook some of them for "man"& women) with flashes of seductive scenes, I was caught by a feeling which "took the form of hilarity charmed into stillness"(quote from The Bostonians, 中文大意是死憋住不敢笑出声,僵在那里), losing sense of reality.
After the shooting, one women told her friends she thought every one coming for this movie is lesbian, which made me sort of embarrassing. However,honestly, it's less embarrassing to be les than to be alone when it suddenly come over me that today is bloody valentine.
Note that this book/movie has been set in a particular milieu(1959) of America when the social conformities and laws made it uncomfortable for a woman to get a divorce(let alone seduced by another woman). In fact, the ranch in Reno where Vivian, an English literature prof, stayed during 6-week residency for …