I saw this movie yesterday and I don't get it at all...

They are not all literally connected, but there are connections and similarities between them. Virginia was starting to write Mrs Dalloway in the 1920s, and in the 1950s Laura Brown was reading it. Clarissa (which is also the first name of the character Mrs Dalloway) was given the nickname Mrs Dalloway by her friend, the poet Richard.

Virginia Woolf was famously unconventional, in part due to her background and upbringing, but also because of her progressive mind and literary genius. Virginia also suffers with severe mental health problems which make her gifts more problematic, and interfere with her confidence in herself. Laura Brown is attempting to conform, but finding it impossible. She feels like she doesn't know how to do things which other women that she knows seem to find simple, like making a cake, and being a wife and mother. She doesn't understand why she is so unhappy doing these things and eventually decides that she wants an alternative. Because she lived in the 1950s, which are often characterised as an age of great conformity and where sensibilities were likely to be ruffled by "alternative" types, making the decision not to carry on with her marriage and her suburban housewife life was a very hard, disruptive thing to do but she felt she did not have a choice (or that her only other choice was to kill herself, which would have been worse). Richard is her son and he has clearly suffered emotionally as a result of Laura's decision and does not have the best relationship with her. Clarissa, who had a short lived romantic relationship with Richard when they were both young, is a woman who is much more self-confident and in control than either Virginia or Laura, but she is the product of an age which allows much more freedom for women to be independent, have a career, be true to themselves. She is also free to have a relationship with another woman (which some people think Laura Brown wants and maybe has after leaving her husband). But one of the connections between these women is that Virginia, who was wealthy and an artist, lived outside of society and did not have to justify herself to it. Laura feels society weigh heavy on her and the pressure of what she feels is societally expected of her contributes to her sense of conflict. But changes in society, which were brought about through the courageousness of women like Laura Brown, mean that fifty years later women like Clarissa Vaughn have more freedom and autonomy.

The making out is complicated and open to interpretation. Laura obviously feels some connection to her neighbour Kitty, and in that moment Kitty seems to return it. Some people think Laura is a lesbian and wants to be free to live as one. That may be true but I think it's more complicated than that. Virginia kisses her sister Vanessa on the lips, which is also a difficult thing to interpret. Some people think she is in a sense trying to "suck" the liveliness and mental well-bring out of Vanessa so she can also experience it. Maybe, given the conversation they are having at the time, she is trying to remind Vanessa that she also is alive. The sisters had a complex relationship, in part because of their experiences growing up together.

There is loads more to this movie than I have written here. If you want to hear more then I will try to answer.

Reality is the new fiction they say, truth is truer these days, truth is man-made

In simplest terms - they were all connected by suicide.