"The greatest love is not immune to disease"

Rebeca 2022-04-23 07:04:01

In the horrific era of HIV just beginning, HIV patients were completely abandoned by the public. No one cares how tragic HIV patients are, and pharmaceutical companies don't care about their lives. Ironically, if it wasn't for Act up (French HIV patients' organization) to terrorize pharmaceutical companies with fake blood, pharmaceutical companies would not have studied HIV drugs at all, and if they hadn't threw blood bags at the French president and countless demonstrations, the French people would not have been either. Know that this country alone has 6,000 people infected with HIV every year.

Sean is one of them. He is lucky to meet someone who is really kind to him, but his fate was already doomed when sean was HIV-negative. He is like a broken flower, withering quickly. It took less than 10 years for sean to go from being active and energetic at the beginning to watching his incontinence and his body tumor being euthanized at the end. What is even more frightening is that this is just a small wave in the sea of ​​many HIV deaths that year.

In those days, it was impossible to imagine how desperate HIV patients were without drugs.

Fortunately, with the advancement of science and technology and the continuous attention of governments around the world, HIV has not been treated with special drugs at the beginning, and can live to a normal age as long as you take medicine, and now you can take blocking drugs within 72 hours after infection to eliminate the HIV virus. , can not help but sigh the progress and development of medical care now.

It's just that those HIV patients in the 1980s and 1990s, who are far away to us, can no longer see it.

"Excellent work, the fly in the ointment is that the first half of the soundtrack and plot are too fast to make people feel restless, and the length of more than two hours is a bit overwhelming."

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  • Dion 2022-03-27 09:01:18

    It's the same fable: the hound failed to chase a rabbit, the hunter blamed the hound for not catching up with the rabbit, the hound said I was just for a meal, but it was running for life.

  • Noah 2022-03-28 09:01:11

    4 out of 4: It's been a long time since I've seen such a passionate movie - this rare passion not only from the protest movement, but also from sex, love and life. And when everyone thinks a movie about illness is unquestionably heavy, they're all wrong - it's a movie about brave people who are bound to come, and it doesn't point to heavy because every moment of it is accumulation and release. I don't think the shift towards personal emotional characterization in the second half is a drag on the whole, not only because the lack of personal content only makes it a documentary with limited ambitions, but also because until the day when the battle is completely won , Sean's tragedy is also the tragedy of many Act Up members. He is no longer him we see, we see everyone through him. I was confused as to why the four dance scenes must be added ritually, except for the point, maybe as some people say, they are superfluous, or maybe they are just expressing a very simple thing: the next battle The joy of being alive before coming.