Liz in September

I just watched this phenomenal piece if cinema.

Its foreign, Spanish specifically, about a woman who has loved many many women over her life time or at least made love to them. She claims love is foolish until a presumably heterosexual woman wanders into her life.

Eva drops in her life, having lost her son to cancer, while Liz is fighting her own battle with cancer. Though she doesn't look ill, she is....gravely so. Liz falls for Eva and Eva...well she goes back to her husband one last time for one reason: she wants another baby. She sleeps with him that one time and then comes back and stays with Liz.

What I found so interesting about it was that even in that short amount of time they really found each other and saw each other. In the end, Liz doesn't want to drag this out. She wants to let go of life while she's still in her right mind and Eva makes that happen. Eva gives the woman she loves the death she deserves giving her what I presume was a bolus of opoid.

Eva goes on to have that baby, her and Liz's baby as she clearly feels it is, and names the little girl after the woman she loved.

I was so moved by that fact that you can love someone so profoundly in such a short amount a time that you'd do what they wanted you to do even if it meant literally ripping your heart out. Eva knew how fiercely independent and vivacious her lover was and she refused to rob her of that by letting her suffer during a fight she could win. Eva learned that the hard way with her son. So this time...instead of clinging so tightly to her loved one, she let them go.

Eva let Liz be fully who she was in life and death and I think that's a beautiful gift to give someone.

Eva's story said to me

I see you. I love you. You'll always be mine. And I'm going to help you be who you are when you can't be that on your own. You will remain true to yourself because I adore the person you are down to the core of truth.