----------------------------Original message---------------------------- re: jajasoon's posting of yesterday about the film Heavenly Creatures, which I agree was one of the best films I've seen in a *long* while!! (can you tell I liked it?!) Anyhow, wasn't it on this list a couple of months ago that there was a discussion about this film, stating that Juliet now lives in Scotland and writes under the name Ann Perry? (or maybe it was on the queer studies list--qstudy-l...?) And that it wasn't Peter Jackson who went looking for her--in fact he very carefully did not search out these two women in the present--but rather some 'enterprising' (??) person? Also, I have to disagree with those posts that have maintained these girls weren't lesbians, and that this wasn't a representation of lesbian sexuality, but of two girls' very active imagination. While I would agree that their 'love' for each other was heterosexualized, especially via their elaborate and wonderfully caught fantasies, to maintain that this makes the 'sex' not lesbian is, IMHO, to argue for stable and coherent sexual identities, and to discount the amount of really good work in queer theory that argues for a more fluid understanding of sexuality. Neither of these women may self-identify today as lesbians, but this doesn't take away from the representation of sexuality within this film.... I found it all incredibly powerful stuff myself. Ann Braithwaite [log in to unmask]