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All eyes are on HBO for next month's release of long-awaited The Normal Heart (which early reviews say is excellent) but cinematic representations of people with HIV or AIDS have not always been kind or accurate. While we wait, we pulled together 10 films we think got it right—at least for their times. Many are brilliant and timeless reflections of what it was like to live with HIV in the three decades since the epidemic began. - HIVMAG
http://www.hivplusmag.com/stigma/2014/04/29/10-best-movies-about-hiv-and-aids
Why i chose the article and what it's about:
Written by HIVMAG and it is the best films with the most accurate representation of HIV/Aids. As it is written by a magazine dedicated to HIV the editor has a lot of knowledge and expertise regarding the disease and what it is like fighting it ; the symptoms and reality of it.
I agree with the article as I trust it's opinion that there are many representations of HIV in films that convey many issues and effects the disease can have.
Main points:
- the films that are the most accurate representation of HIV which tackle the stigma of the disease, mostly released when the stigma was at it's highest.
"When it came out in the mid-to-late ’80s, “women” and “AIDS” were rarely uttered in the same breath—not to mention that lesbians never even came up in conversations about the epidemic."
"having HIV has no bearing on a person’s fitness as a parent or ability to achieve their dreams."
"The first film of any kind to tackle HIV, as a gay man revealing both his sexual orientation and HIV-positive status to his family and his fellow attorneys. It was heralded as the first time mainstream America saw someone with HIV as a person instead of a number, at a time with an AIDS diagnosis usually meant death."
"Dallas Buyers Club de-gayed the early years of the AIDS epidemic—when the concept of “living with HIV” was nonexistent"
Why i chose the article and what it's about:
Written by HIVMAG and it is the best films with the most accurate representation of HIV/Aids. As it is written by a magazine dedicated to HIV the editor has a lot of knowledge and expertise regarding the disease and what it is like fighting it ; the symptoms and reality of it.
I agree with the article as I trust it's opinion that there are many representations of HIV in films that convey many issues and effects the disease can have.
Main points:
- the films that are the most accurate representation of HIV which tackle the stigma of the disease, mostly released when the stigma was at it's highest.
"When it came out in the mid-to-late ’80s, “women” and “AIDS” were rarely uttered in the same breath—not to mention that lesbians never even came up in conversations about the epidemic."
"having HIV has no bearing on a person’s fitness as a parent or ability to achieve their dreams."
"The first film of any kind to tackle HIV, as a gay man revealing both his sexual orientation and HIV-positive status to his family and his fellow attorneys. It was heralded as the first time mainstream America saw someone with HIV as a person instead of a number, at a time with an AIDS diagnosis usually meant death."
"Dallas Buyers Club de-gayed the early years of the AIDS epidemic—when the concept of “living with HIV” was nonexistent"
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