robkillian

This false and inauthentic film lifts up a straight, white, dishonest 'victim' of AIDS in a story designed to remind us of the overwhelming tragedy of AIDS in an era unfortunately not forgotten. This cliché'd film is not in any way truthful to the time or to those whose deaths it was meant to commemorate. This film is not truthful in any manner as to the characters it uses to tell this inauthentic story. Medicine is portrayed inaccurately. Gay characters are not portrayed accurately. Nurses and Government bureaucrats are not shown in any way accurately. I cannot for one minute understand how this film got to be distributed or held up for the whole world to see. Here we have a straight man who is infecting dozens of unknowing women with porn like sex throughout this movie and we have the 'gay' character floating through the movie in a dress and acting fey without even a kiss or a touch or a glance of sexuality. We have medicine, in an era where thousands of health care professionals gave their all to try to save those infected with AIDS, as greedy money hungry uncaring 'assholes'. Buyers clubs sprung up in many cities around the U.S. and other places. Hundreds, if not thousands of doctors and other health care professionals put their careers and licenses on the line to 'write scripts' to stock the shelves of these buyer's clubs. But, not in this move. Fake. Bad, Cliché'd and not worth the time it took to write this review. Don't waste your time on this horrible movie.

Rarely does one film capture a time and a movement and a story that anchors the viewer to the story with grace, memory, and power. This perfect movie made from a rewritten Larry Kramer script, .is authentic and powerful in showing both the personalities and a community affected in the early days of the AIDS Crisis in New York. It powerfully reminds us that these deaths cannot go unnoticed anymore; that thirty years later there is ABSOLUTELY no excuse for 'the Closet" and that we are often our own worst enemies. But, the grace of the film is that despite this, being flawed, means we also have hearts and souls and dreams and the search for love must go on. The normal heart, our heart, has broken and suffered, and lost too much; but it is still alive and here and breathing and WORTHY of this existence called Life. This story cannot ever be untold now.