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Impetuous or tender, love has no gender preferences
By - 04-01-2010 04:10 PM
Originally Posted at: The Japan Times Online

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Sexual orientation is often defined in black-and-white terms: You're either straight or gay — or kidding yourself. Author Gore Vidal has famously objected to this binary classification, claiming that there's no such thing as homosexuality, only homosexual acts.
In Momoko Ando's debut feature "Kakera" (A Piece of Our Life), the mixed-up heroine, Haru (Hikari Mitsushima), shows that Vidal is right — or does she? More than same-sex bedtime joys, she is searching for connection in the form of a soft warm touch and an understanding heart. She's not so much seduced as gathered into friendly arms, like a lost puppy run away from a bad home.



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