Movies...the curiosity

“In love, one and one equal one.”

The movie starts with this line and if you walk into a room full of lesbians and say those words it’s like taking a breath of fresh air because everyone will exhale. Ha!

 The movie is film in the context of a documentary where real people share real stories of how they met their significant other. Do you believe in soulmates? Maybe…

Elena is a beautiful, soft-spoken woman. She’s married to the preacher (of joy) and they’re trying for another child, a subject that her husband seems much keener on than Elena. Peyton is a lesbian novelist who has just lost her mother.  Peyton and Elena first saw each other at an adoption orientation as they both wanted to add a baby to their lives. From the start the two had a glistening chemistry.

Peyton came out to Elena almost immediately after having drinks on a candlelit porch. Elena not wanting to be the overly righteous preacher's wife goes overboard trying to show her support, insisting that she’s comfortable with Peyton and that she voted “the right way” on gay marriages which her husband is campaigning against.

As a means to stay connected to each other the women started socializing under the pretenses of working together as a writer and photographer. From there the sexual tension builds and this scares Elena a bit, but excites her enough to continue seeing Peyton.

Oh my overly curious preacher’s wife who wants to have her cake and eat it too.

Peyton overwhelmed by her emotions began writing Elena these tacky love letters. Elena’s teenage son stumbled upon the letters and he was devastated now she was forced to put her feelings into perspective. Elena never genuinely bothered that she was a married woman having an affair and as the preacher's wife whom you will think should know better.  

The relationship between her and Peyton flourished.

There’s a long kiss between the two women. A very long kiss that’s over three minutes long. It's not a porn movie, so it was tastefully done and fitting within the context of the story.

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There is a believable romance; there is longing, and their forbidden love manifested. Elena didn’t immediately tell her husband is somewhat believable and wouldn’t be out of character for Elena. 

The husband eventually finds out only because a meddling, anti-gay churchgoer sees Elena and Peyton kissing in the park and immediately goes and tells Pastor Husband. 

Somehow I didn’t feel compassionate towards her husband he was too opinionated.

The scenes of the movie had relevant life comparisons and scenarios.

It’s not one of those happily ever after story Peyton and Elena separated. Elena divorced her husband. Six months later Peyton and Elena ran into each other in a park and rekindled their romance. Elena was pregnant via sperm donor.

Now they get to be happily in love lesbians with a baby too so it was a happily ever after movie!

The only thing that ruins this movie for me is the "love guru" who was a little corny at times otherwise Elena Undone is beautifully craft movie that just makes you want to believe in soulmates.