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One of the best early films to deal with AIDs and the powerful feelings that come up when one has to deal with it. The acting and the passion of the roles by the actors is very good, very intense. The love for life that comes through in the desperation of the main characters is beautiful. Lots of frustration and anger about having AIDs but ultimately the choice to fight to live comes through and this film was much ahead of it's American counterparts for the time. Most of the contemporary films in America were about the death and dying of people with Aids not the struggle to go on living and that's what sets this film apart from the others of it's time.

Highly recommended!!

Sean Penn was very good at acting right from the beginning we see in 'Bad Boys'; the lighting, the settings, the moral plays and urban ghetto youth themes are right for the times, a bit corny but the overall filmmaking is excellent and gives us a historical view of America that will soon be lost as we move on into the age of national id's and readers that will place us at the crime scene with every move we make. Violence won't disappear in Bush's and the Right Wing's 'Moral Society' but the ID process and ability to track everyone, with swift revenge by Bush's police state; along with incarcerating people in livestock cages or such... will forever change the face of 'law enforcement' as we knew it.

A very good piece of film history. The dvd release hasn't been digitally retouched but it's still nice viewing if soft and fuzzy, because of the acting and settings.

Esai Morales, Clancy Brown and the other supporting cast are very good at the stereotypes they play, Sean Penn stood out from the rest, even given the one-dimensional characters of all of them, and of course his few seconds of crying when he sees his battered girlfriend, and at the end are very well done.

Not the deepest movie, but very well done.

She wants him, he doesn't want her but is willing to use her for sex and comfort until he admits he likes it then she doesn't want him after chasing him to keep him available to use for cheap sex and intimacy.

Great film. These are the adult relationships we learned. We see them acted out in various versions around us, over and over again. The film is great in showing the dynamics of the human psyche being pretty screwed up because of cultural influences. Brando becomes the man who uses Schneider's character and then shows his hidden vulnerability; Schneider is pretty good at playing the spoilt rich brat who's touched more than she wants to be, but hard at the core anyway. That's everyone we know.

Shows how common misery is in all 'western societies'; nice cinematography all the dark sets and semi-gloomy atmospheres reflect very nicely the human themes of the film.

A classic.