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A very good movie

I remember it very well, when I was a kid growing up in the 90’s, AIDS was everywhere. In the news, at school,… There was this constant warning and, if in the past, your girlfriend might get pregnant if you were not careful when having sex now, suddenly, you might eventually even die so sex was and, actually still is, something pretty scary. I’m always amazed that, 20 years later, we barely hear about this disease, even if, according to this movie, there are still 6000 people contimated by the HIV virus on a daily basis. My guess is that this epidemic is now pretty much under control in the Western world and most of the current victims are actually coming from the African continent and, exactly as it was displayed in this movie, back in the 80’s, nobody really cared about these dying homosexual men, nowadays, nobody really seem to care about all these dying Africans. Anyway, coming back to our main feature, what I liked the most about this movie was how layered the whole thing was. Indeed, they showed the fight those guys had to put to survive, but also the conflict inside their own movement and, finally, this beautiful love story involving Mark Ruffalo and Matt Bomer. Indeed, even though I wasn’t really sure about Julia Roberts, I was once again really blown away by Mark Ruffalo who gave here a really strong and completely convincing performance. I have to admit that I was rather surprised that the lesbian community was never to be seen but, apparently, that’s actually what happened back then. Anyway, to conclude, I thought it was a really strong drama and it is definitely worth a look. 



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Added by johanlefourbe
7 years ago on 5 December 2016 08:45