Kissing Jessica Stein, another wonderful love story

I wrote about Heavenly Creatures several days ago and wrote that it is a great love story, though the movie has many dimensions and love story is only one of dimensions. Kissing Jessica Stein is another wonderful love story; I personally like Kissing Jessica Stein better than Heavenly Creatures (though both are great movies). As I read some reviews on the web, Kissing Jessica Stein is often described as a lesbian love story, but it is not. Two main characters in the movie Jessica Stein (played by Jennifer Westfeldt) and Helen Cooper (played by Heather Juergensen) are straight women; this is one of components of the movie that enables to tell a wonderful love story. Like Heavenly Creatures does Kissing Jessica Stein challenge conventional view of love and romance. The movie is certainly not a love story about a man and a woman; the movie is not about a homosexual couple's love story, either. By taking two straight women and making them a couple who venture into a sexual, sensual and romantic relationship, the movie attempts to rediscover the meaning of love and asks fundamental questions about love. Do lovers need to be a man and a woman? Do lovers need to be homosexual men or women? Does there need to be biological compatibility (assuming that homosexuality is biological)? Given the ending of the movie, we could say that romantic relationship between two straight people who have the same sex won't work out, but could we really say that? When I wrote about Heavenly Creatures, I raised questions about love; we cannot honestly say that there is a definitive and clear definition of love or romance. Half of couples of getting divorced. Many couples remain so simply because they can get economical and social advantages. It's true that there is no concrete evidence that homosexuality is biological, but as we observe the whole eco system, heterosexuality is not guaranteed to create a heaven on earth. Kissing Jessica Stein is a wonderful movie and there are many things that I praise about, but its challenge on the conventional view of love and romance alone make the move worth watching.