Three of hearts.Two New Yorkers, Sam and Steven, meet in college and fall in love. Together seven years, they invite a woman, Samantha, into their lives and embark on a 13-year relationship as a trio. It's all captured in Susan Kaplan's documentary Three of Hearts, which ThinkFilm released October 19 in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and will soon unveil for Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden audiences. Kaplan, 42, shot the film over eight years of birthdays, births, therapy sessions, and the eventual breakup breakup The division of a company into separate parts. The most famous breakup to date was the 1984 division of AT&T (formerly, American Telephone & Telegraph Company). This breakup was intended to increase competition in the communications industry. . How did you get involved filming the trio? Actually, I knew Sammy in elementary school elementary school: see school. . Steven I went to high school with [but I hadn't seen either since]. I met this diversity trainer [who] told me about their relationship [with Samantha]. They'd been together nine years at that point, and a lot of people had wanted to do stories about them. [They declined.] But we became friends, and I am very persistent. [Laughs] Were you surprised by how well the three of them were able to function together? I can't tell you how often I would spend time at night going, "It can't be! I'm not asking the right questions." I interviewed a friend of theirs who spoke for all of us: "I've yet to see cracks in their relationship, but l know there have to be!" What picture of this kind of relationship does this film leave with audiences? Each time you see it, you see it a little differently. Two or three people [who saw the film twice at the same festival] have asked if l went back and reedited my movie for the second screening. One argument against legalizing same-sex marriage Noun 1. same-sex marriage - two people of the same sex who live together as a family; "the legal status of same-sex marriages has been hotly debated" couple, twosome, duet, duo - a pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable is that it opens the door for three people to get married, then on down that "slippery slope 'slippery slope' Medical ethics An ethical continuum or 'slope,' the impact of which has been incompletely explored, and which itself raises moral questions that are even more on the ethical 'edge' than the original issue ." How does your film fit into that debate? It was never an issue of promoting threesomes. It was: "Look at how complicated relationships are; we can learn something from people who have managed to really challenge the idea of family." They made it work for themselves up until the point that they started to figure out who they were as individuals and started growing up. Any couple can relate to that, I think. |
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