This film is quite good. The movie portrays the struggle with being gay and the family dynamics during the AIDS crisis in 1985, but not with a flashy Hollywood style, but from a realistic and personal side.
28 Reviews
Realistic Emotional Drama
mtsinara16 February 2019
A personal story in a pivotal year in the AIDS crisis
chong_an26 May 2018
Warning: Spoilers
3 years earlier, as soon as he could, Adrian left his conservative home in Fort Worth, seeking his fortune (and himself) in New York City. Now he has returned for Christmas, to a father who is a Vietnam vet, a mother who is a closet liberal, and younger brother Andrew who has disappointed their father by dropping out of football to join the drama club.
Adrian is trying to find an opening to tell his family his secrets - that he is gay, and he is dying. He already has seen his lover and friends die, and he himself is showing signs of KS. It is easier to tell a childhood female friend, and to record a cassette tape with a hopeful message for Andrew on his gift - a Walkman with a recording function.
The story has parallels with It's Only the End of the World, but in this case the disease is more explicit. Also, while the parents may not approve, they may still be loving, and individually voice some degree of support.
I saw this at the Inside Out film festival, and got 2 takeaways from the Q+A. Shooting in black-and-white reduces background distractions and focuses on the characters' faces. Also, at an earlier screening, the director came face-to-face with a family where reality fit the fiction - a mother with 2 gay sons, the older one dead of AIDS, the younger married to another man.
Adrian is trying to find an opening to tell his family his secrets - that he is gay, and he is dying. He already has seen his lover and friends die, and he himself is showing signs of KS. It is easier to tell a childhood female friend, and to record a cassette tape with a hopeful message for Andrew on his gift - a Walkman with a recording function.
The story has parallels with It's Only the End of the World, but in this case the disease is more explicit. Also, while the parents may not approve, they may still be loving, and individually voice some degree of support.
I saw this at the Inside Out film festival, and got 2 takeaways from the Q+A. Shooting in black-and-white reduces background distractions and focuses on the characters' faces. Also, at an earlier screening, the director came face-to-face with a family where reality fit the fiction - a mother with 2 gay sons, the older one dead of AIDS, the younger married to another man.
A Study in Compassion
fromdecatur-1012619 February 2019
Warning: Spoilers
It was the darkest of times to be gay, and compassion for those ill with and killed by AIDS was rarely to be found. We had a president who wouldn't even speak about it and speculated the plague was god's will. There was a lot of fear and misinformation about how the virus was transmitted.
I found it a rather healing thing to see a movie about compassion and not anger. A closeted son with AIDS returns after several years to visit his conservative hometown, following the death from AIDS of his partner. He lost his job because someone found out and maxed out his credit cards to buy nice and thoughtful gifts for his family. He is in effect saying goodbye and struggling with whether to tell them the truth of who he is.
He never does. It turns out his father knew, and though not able to accept it, still establishes that he will be there for his son. It turns out his mother knew in the way that mother's know, and hopes she will handle it well when it comes out into the open between them. His high school friend/girlfriend didn't know, but he finally tells her in the hopes his younger brother will eventually know the truth about him. His younger brother is too young for us to know if he may or may not be gay, but it is clear that his interests in drama and pop music are not the norm for his conservative area.
For me, the most powerful moment in the film was when the son was packing to leave and tosses the nice bible his father gave him for christmas into his suitcase. He hears his father arguing with his mother about putting on the fancy coat the son bought the father for christmas. The mother asks him to put it on for her, if he won't put it on for their son, just to make the son feel good. The father doesn't. The son, saying goodbye to his father (who once again makes the point that he will be there for his son), does his own version of "putting on the coat" and says he read the bible the father had given to him and was going to try to be a better person.
I found it healing to be able to look at the era from a perspective other than rage. Thank you to all involved for your work on the film.
I found it a rather healing thing to see a movie about compassion and not anger. A closeted son with AIDS returns after several years to visit his conservative hometown, following the death from AIDS of his partner. He lost his job because someone found out and maxed out his credit cards to buy nice and thoughtful gifts for his family. He is in effect saying goodbye and struggling with whether to tell them the truth of who he is.
He never does. It turns out his father knew, and though not able to accept it, still establishes that he will be there for his son. It turns out his mother knew in the way that mother's know, and hopes she will handle it well when it comes out into the open between them. His high school friend/girlfriend didn't know, but he finally tells her in the hopes his younger brother will eventually know the truth about him. His younger brother is too young for us to know if he may or may not be gay, but it is clear that his interests in drama and pop music are not the norm for his conservative area.
For me, the most powerful moment in the film was when the son was packing to leave and tosses the nice bible his father gave him for christmas into his suitcase. He hears his father arguing with his mother about putting on the fancy coat the son bought the father for christmas. The mother asks him to put it on for her, if he won't put it on for their son, just to make the son feel good. The father doesn't. The son, saying goodbye to his father (who once again makes the point that he will be there for his son), does his own version of "putting on the coat" and says he read the bible the father had given to him and was going to try to be a better person.
I found it healing to be able to look at the era from a perspective other than rage. Thank you to all involved for your work on the film.
I love it
Kirpianuscus10 June 2019
...for performances. For white-and-black image. For a story who reflects the rhytm and atmosphere and expectations of a period. For message. And for the emotions ball after its end. A confession - film . Not original, not great. But useful and beautiful. Bitter and large circles of problems, from motherhood and fatherhood to old close friendship and relation between brothers, from gay life and coming up challenge to shadows from "Death of a Salesman" to the indie love stories. Short, a film for feel it. The job of Jamie Chung and Virginia Madsen defines, in splendid way, this special-special drama.
Simple and Effective.
adamjohns-425753 July 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Although this film was set when I was five, it did raise some memories for me of how I felt shortly afterwards. I have been very fortunate not to have contracted anything in my time, but I can associate with the leads feelings regarding his sexuality and what coming out might do to his relationships with his family and friends, so from at least that point of view I could empathise with him.
When it really gets in to it, the story really tugs at you and although it does take a while to set the scene, I don't think it hurts the tale and somewhat builds the suspense of what you know is coming.
The connection he had with his brother was touching (Not like that!), it was lovely to see the balance against his fathers inability to show affection and the poor mother stuck in the middle trying to hold everything together. I also like the fact that while the film is essentially a coming out story, there isn't all the usual drama and technically it never really happens at all. The open ending was a nice touch too. How did he progress, if he did at all?
A good snapshot of the mid eighties with a tough subject to cover, not least because it has been done before and not so well.
When it really gets in to it, the story really tugs at you and although it does take a while to set the scene, I don't think it hurts the tale and somewhat builds the suspense of what you know is coming.
The connection he had with his brother was touching (Not like that!), it was lovely to see the balance against his fathers inability to show affection and the poor mother stuck in the middle trying to hold everything together. I also like the fact that while the film is essentially a coming out story, there isn't all the usual drama and technically it never really happens at all. The open ending was a nice touch too. How did he progress, if he did at all?
A good snapshot of the mid eighties with a tough subject to cover, not least because it has been done before and not so well.
Heart breaking
rse8 January 2019
static black and white
SnoopyStyle10 March 2019
In 1985, Adrian Lester (Cory Michael Smith) goes home for Christmas to visit his conservative Texas family. He struggles to come out of the closet to his father (Michael Chiklis) and mother (Virginia Madsen). He reconnects with his childhood love Carly (Jamie Chung). He reluctantly tells her about his devastated life in NYC and fears the news surfacing to his beloved younger brother Andrew.
It's a black and white indie. It's reminiscent of a 1985 indie. Its style is static. With B/W, Adrian holding back secrets, and the static shooting style, it does have the sense of sadness and death but it also has a sense of a slow grind. Texas has great visual potential but this is not doing any of that. The problem with holding the secret for so long is that it forces the movie into stall mode. There is a reason why Adrian and Carly together have the best scenes. It would have been better to come out of the closet early and then reveal the darker secret later. With the oppressing black and white, I would have liked some color to accentuate some of the scenes. Overall, there are some compelling scenes but the style is too static.
It's a black and white indie. It's reminiscent of a 1985 indie. Its style is static. With B/W, Adrian holding back secrets, and the static shooting style, it does have the sense of sadness and death but it also has a sense of a slow grind. Texas has great visual potential but this is not doing any of that. The problem with holding the secret for so long is that it forces the movie into stall mode. There is a reason why Adrian and Carly together have the best scenes. It would have been better to come out of the closet early and then reveal the darker secret later. With the oppressing black and white, I would have liked some color to accentuate some of the scenes. Overall, there are some compelling scenes but the style is too static.
It wasn't easy to be gay in Forth Worth in 1985
Red-12513 October 2018
1985 (2018) was written and directed by Yen Tan. It stars Cory Michael Smith as Adrian, a young gay man who is out of the closet in NYC, but still in the closet in Fort Worth. Adrian is handsome and athletic. He doesn't look or act like the stereotyped version of a gay man.
His parents are working class evangelicals. All they want is for Adrian to marry Carly, the girl friend he left behind. (Jamie Chung, a Korean-American portrays Carly. It's interesting that no one objects to Adrian marrying an Asian-American woman.) Virginia Madsen plays Eileen, Adrian's loving mother. Michael Chiklis portray's Adrian's father Dale, who fulfills the stereotyped image of a tough, blue-collar right-wing guy.
This movie could have been a simple coming-out story, but it isn't. There are complexities within each character, and there are unexpected moments of love and concern.
We saw this film at The Little Theatre, as part of ImageOut, the excellent Rochester LGBT Film Festival. It will work well on the small screen.
1985 carries a weak IMDb rating of 6.8. I think it's better than that.
P.S. In a brilliant piece of programming, ImageOut showed the movie "Buddies" on the same day as it showed 1985. Buddies was produced in 1985. It was the first movie that openly referred to the HIV/AIDS crisis. The year 1985 was a really bad year to be gay.
His parents are working class evangelicals. All they want is for Adrian to marry Carly, the girl friend he left behind. (Jamie Chung, a Korean-American portrays Carly. It's interesting that no one objects to Adrian marrying an Asian-American woman.) Virginia Madsen plays Eileen, Adrian's loving mother. Michael Chiklis portray's Adrian's father Dale, who fulfills the stereotyped image of a tough, blue-collar right-wing guy.
This movie could have been a simple coming-out story, but it isn't. There are complexities within each character, and there are unexpected moments of love and concern.
We saw this film at The Little Theatre, as part of ImageOut, the excellent Rochester LGBT Film Festival. It will work well on the small screen.
1985 carries a weak IMDb rating of 6.8. I think it's better than that.
P.S. In a brilliant piece of programming, ImageOut showed the movie "Buddies" on the same day as it showed 1985. Buddies was produced in 1985. It was the first movie that openly referred to the HIV/AIDS crisis. The year 1985 was a really bad year to be gay.
1985
Prismark103 July 2020
Warning: Spoilers
When dramas about AIDS came out in the mid 1980s. Broadcasters were at pains to show this was not a 'gay' disease.
Sweet as You Are was a BBC film that starred Liam Neeson as a lecturer who got HIV after a brief affair with a young woman. Only the American television movie, An Early Frost had a lead character who was gay that contracted AIDS.
1985 goes back to the days of Reagan's America, AIDS along with homosexuality had a lot of taboos and false information surrounding it.
Filmed in stark black and white. Adrian Lester (Cory Michael Smith) visits his conservative Christian parents in his hometown in Texas for Christmas.
Adrian has been living and working in New York and not been home for three years. He is dying of AIDS and is struggling to tell them about it. This could be his last Christmas. His lover has already died.
Over the next few days, Adrian reconnects with his younger brother Andrew who might also be gay. Adrian goes to see his former high school girlfriend Carly and finally tells her about his sexuality. The reasons he went to New York to start a new life and his illness.
As for his parents, Adrian cannot just bring himself to tell them the truth. However his father Dale (Michael Chiklis) and mother Eileen (Virginia Madsen) sense something is wrong. The money that Adrian has spent buying them presents. Dale even tells Adrian that he knows that Adrian is gay and that he can talk to him even if he is unhappy about his lifestyle choice.
1985 is a small scale drama. It is set in a time where there was speculation that AIDS could become widespread once it emerged that this was not something that just affected homosexuals.
The beauty is the small things in this movie which are all too real. Adrian trying to wake his younger brother before going back to New York and Andrew is still asleep. Adrian who visited to say his final goodbyes to his parents and tell them everything. He goes back saying nothing. Something that happens to many people. Even the high school bully who has regrets about his past behaviour. In some many films the bully remains a jerk.
The religious aspects of the movie is heavy handed. I can understand if his parents think Madonna's music is too much for Andrew but Bryan Adams!
The scene with Adrian chatting with his mother in the bathroom might be unrealistic. It allowed Eileen to show that she has her own mind, she confesses to voting for Walter Mondale. It would also mean that she could see the lesions in her son's body.
Sweet as You Are was a BBC film that starred Liam Neeson as a lecturer who got HIV after a brief affair with a young woman. Only the American television movie, An Early Frost had a lead character who was gay that contracted AIDS.
1985 goes back to the days of Reagan's America, AIDS along with homosexuality had a lot of taboos and false information surrounding it.
Filmed in stark black and white. Adrian Lester (Cory Michael Smith) visits his conservative Christian parents in his hometown in Texas for Christmas.
Adrian has been living and working in New York and not been home for three years. He is dying of AIDS and is struggling to tell them about it. This could be his last Christmas. His lover has already died.
Over the next few days, Adrian reconnects with his younger brother Andrew who might also be gay. Adrian goes to see his former high school girlfriend Carly and finally tells her about his sexuality. The reasons he went to New York to start a new life and his illness.
As for his parents, Adrian cannot just bring himself to tell them the truth. However his father Dale (Michael Chiklis) and mother Eileen (Virginia Madsen) sense something is wrong. The money that Adrian has spent buying them presents. Dale even tells Adrian that he knows that Adrian is gay and that he can talk to him even if he is unhappy about his lifestyle choice.
1985 is a small scale drama. It is set in a time where there was speculation that AIDS could become widespread once it emerged that this was not something that just affected homosexuals.
The beauty is the small things in this movie which are all too real. Adrian trying to wake his younger brother before going back to New York and Andrew is still asleep. Adrian who visited to say his final goodbyes to his parents and tell them everything. He goes back saying nothing. Something that happens to many people. Even the high school bully who has regrets about his past behaviour. In some many films the bully remains a jerk.
The religious aspects of the movie is heavy handed. I can understand if his parents think Madonna's music is too much for Andrew but Bryan Adams!
The scene with Adrian chatting with his mother in the bathroom might be unrealistic. It allowed Eileen to show that she has her own mind, she confesses to voting for Walter Mondale. It would also mean that she could see the lesions in her son's body.
This Movie Made My Eyes Leak!
damianphelps2 January 2021
Beautiful movie that packs the emotion as it slowly unfolds in front of us.
The performances are really touching and delivered honestly without hype.
I just recommend that you watch it.
An additional note. Congratulations to those who decided to shoot this film in black and white. I have long held the view that colour (I do love colour movies) can often be a distraction from detail and that emotion etc can be overlooked. For example if you take colour away from Transformers (and I do like the first 3!) then you may find the lack of story and depth to be exposed as the colourful, shiny bits are removed. With 1985, the absence of colour allows us to see more.
Special!
The performances are really touching and delivered honestly without hype.
I just recommend that you watch it.
An additional note. Congratulations to those who decided to shoot this film in black and white. I have long held the view that colour (I do love colour movies) can often be a distraction from detail and that emotion etc can be overlooked. For example if you take colour away from Transformers (and I do like the first 3!) then you may find the lack of story and depth to be exposed as the colourful, shiny bits are removed. With 1985, the absence of colour allows us to see more.
Special!
1985 - Heartbreaking
alemagico31 October 2018
Warning: Spoilers
I remember watching the short film a few month's back. It was wonderful and looking how Adrian was hiding his sickness coz he didn't wanted to harm his family with it in his own way was strong to look at. In the movie (for me it feels like the next ARC of the story) he reunites again with his family after 3 years without visiting them. Lot of secrets will break loose making Lester decide if it's time to open up to his parents and little brother Andrew or stay shut.
The acting is phenomenal. Cory Michael Smith is a bright light on this film. He has talent and charisma. He makes "Adrian Lester" feels SO real is surreal.
Jamie as the ex-girlfriend is another surprise. It's mix feelings when you talk of this character. So complicated yet so refreshing. Is a must watch.
Michael and Virginia as the parents are marvelous! They bring a unique performance making you wonder why till this day parents like this exist. The ones who support you even if it's hard in their heads to understand what you want for yourself and life in general.
Aidan as Andrew is also a gift to watch. This kid has a bright future. Awesome job!
Music Score: they need to sell a soundtrack or make a way we can keep appreciating this masterpiece. It gives you the chills and make every scene make you feel powerless. You will even CRY!
More people should see this gem of a movie. It's out of clichés, feels 100% new and the story itself it's stunning. I totally recommend it.
The acting is phenomenal. Cory Michael Smith is a bright light on this film. He has talent and charisma. He makes "Adrian Lester" feels SO real is surreal.
Jamie as the ex-girlfriend is another surprise. It's mix feelings when you talk of this character. So complicated yet so refreshing. Is a must watch.
Michael and Virginia as the parents are marvelous! They bring a unique performance making you wonder why till this day parents like this exist. The ones who support you even if it's hard in their heads to understand what you want for yourself and life in general.
Aidan as Andrew is also a gift to watch. This kid has a bright future. Awesome job!
Music Score: they need to sell a soundtrack or make a way we can keep appreciating this masterpiece. It gives you the chills and make every scene make you feel powerless. You will even CRY!
More people should see this gem of a movie. It's out of clichés, feels 100% new and the story itself it's stunning. I totally recommend it.
- Alexandra aka Lilianetty
Pull your heart strings FAIL
ausdlk12 September 2018
Warning: Spoilers
I really wanted to like it. I would have welcomed having a (strong) emotional response. It is an important time period. But... just too many silly plot holes and hard to believe character moments and interactions. Hmmmm... a grown man taking a bath and having tea with his mother in the bathroom with him?? The deus ex machina of Jesus-freak Dad tracking his son down in NYC and discovering he is gay months before the Christmas visit in the film but this not causing a reaction until the third act?? The loving little brother who sleeps through the big brother's final (literally) departure just so the screenwriter can have him listen to a tape from older brother later?? And, finally, the big brother just ASSUMING little brother is gay because he quit football and became a drama club nerd, and leaving him the aforementioned tape recording assuring him "don't worry, there are other people like you out there." Heart strings, tug... Presumptuous, much? I loved the "1985" short film but this film is a failed attempt to pull heart strings.
A subject still taboo
jromanbaker31 January 2020
This is one of the bravest films I have seen. It stares at the subject of AIDS in the face and there is none of the ' look how well meaning I am to be in a film like this ' which can be found in such films as ' Philadelphia ' and even in some independent films which have been made over the years. All the actors are perfect in the roles and the desperation of the knowledge that death is near shown with delicacy and insight. The film's simplicity of approach is its strength and the use of black and white focused on the family issues in a way that reminded me of the concentration of Ingmar Bergman at his best. As film it worked, the black and white accentuating the draining away of colour in lives devastated back then when what I call a Holocaust was at its worst, and little hope was in sight. I do not want to single out a single actor because each and every one of them played with a sincerity rarely seen on film. In most films there are ' leads ' but there were none here, and the nearest image I can draw on is a tapestry of the times for us all to look at and to learn from. Even today stigma remains, so look closely at that inter-weaving of lives and ask yourselves how you would have behaved in 1985, so near in History, and how you would behave now. I also agree with some comments here that this film does not have a higher rating. Or for that matter there have not been more user reviews. Even disregarding the subject matter the film is compelling, beautifully made and acting that is first rate.
Beautifully written silent and strong !
yupinghojack15 January 2019
Beautiful film
petrinevilmun10 June 2019
I really loved the movie, it made me cry a lot and made me think about it many days after. It was quite confusing to me, and there could have been more "power" in the film, meaning that at some scenes, it seemed a bit weak, which is why I'm not giving it a full 10. I really liked the grey and white filter and how it's all kind of building up to the moment of truth. Overall, really great and beautiful film.
Beautiful
pekleberry1 January 2019
not great.
natcalgary3 January 2019
An emotional family drama with takeaways for everyone, straight or gay
charleshutler17 June 2018
Warning: Spoilers
1985 is an intense dive into a dysfunctional family dynamic that has drained some part of the life out of each member of the family.
We can guess fairly early on that Adrian is sick and suspect he is gay, but by not clearly expressing it early on, the film asks us to examine the family more universally.
Done in black and white and mostly tight close up shots, you can experience some of the tension and claustrophobia of each family conversation. You know you've been there at some point in your own life. You want to say something but it will disappoint Dad and hurt Mom deeply so you stall and stall and eventually say nothing.
I found the scenes with the ex girlfriend the least satisfying and awkward. However she plays an important part for the future of the younger brother, for whom I felt great sadness.
He really needs his big brother, but Adrian needed his own chance at freedom and moved away. On this visit Adrian tries to reestablish some connection with his brother while protecting him from the consequences of his decisions since fleeing the family home.
Hauntingly Devastating
Void-Horizon20 February 2019
Warning: Spoilers
This film manages to be devastating without actually showing, or explaining much tragedy, at all. Oh, but you just know it. And, it doesn't stop tearing your heart out, either. Weeks later, and I still can't stop from crying every time I so much as think of the ending.
Some people will think black and white is boring. But, it plays an important role in this movie. Everything about this movie is meant to be a memory. It tries to trick you, though. It wants you to believe that the memories belong to the older brother, until at the end we realize that these are tears of the younger sibling.
Some people might think the subject matter is outdated, and historical. However, this is still very much a real problem for some people. This problem isn't going away, and we need to remind ourselves what it can cost us.
Personally, I think it's one of the best movies ever made, because of the cleaver use of so many tricks and unconventional elements. It manages to force us to confront things we all hide within ourselves, and it manages to do this without bringing that into the narrative. It merely implies some things, and allows your own mind to fill in the blanks. This allows the audience to decide for themselves how they feel about these things. It never preaches, or even demonstrates. It actually makes the whole situation even more relatable, that way. It's absolutely ingenious! A true work of fine art. The way this film manages to force the audience to confront this subject on such a deep and personal level allows us to really think about, and understand the matter a lot better. Personally, I think that's something people need to do.
Some people will think black and white is boring. But, it plays an important role in this movie. Everything about this movie is meant to be a memory. It tries to trick you, though. It wants you to believe that the memories belong to the older brother, until at the end we realize that these are tears of the younger sibling.
Some people might think the subject matter is outdated, and historical. However, this is still very much a real problem for some people. This problem isn't going away, and we need to remind ourselves what it can cost us.
Personally, I think it's one of the best movies ever made, because of the cleaver use of so many tricks and unconventional elements. It manages to force us to confront things we all hide within ourselves, and it manages to do this without bringing that into the narrative. It merely implies some things, and allows your own mind to fill in the blanks. This allows the audience to decide for themselves how they feel about these things. It never preaches, or even demonstrates. It actually makes the whole situation even more relatable, that way. It's absolutely ingenious! A true work of fine art. The way this film manages to force the audience to confront this subject on such a deep and personal level allows us to really think about, and understand the matter a lot better. Personally, I think that's something people need to do.
Life-changing
minicolic1 January 2020
I love Cory Michael Smith acting..
yusufpiskin3 February 2020
The cinematography is simple, yet gorgeous.
The story is simple, yet affecting.
The performances are simple, yet moving.
A little goes a long way.
Edit : the historyline isn't something new. I had trough the entire movie the feeling that I've seen it all before, somehow I felt more connected to the trailer than to the movie itself, but it was beautiful and sensitive
A little goes a long way.
Edit : the historyline isn't something new. I had trough the entire movie the feeling that I've seen it all before, somehow I felt more connected to the trailer than to the movie itself, but it was beautiful and sensitive
2018... Another one...
MentalReactor30 December 2018
In short, very weak movie. predictable from 1 minute. Also out there are almost identical movies so if you are movie lover like me, then you will be disappointed to say at least. Maby 20 years ago this movie could get 5/10 but in year 2018 this is most drilled topic and really nothing unique. And at the end of the movie I just did a face palm.
Hell & Intolerance
westsideschl24 January 2019
Warning: Spoilers
HIV/AIDS became the highlighted disease of the '80s w/the mid '80s particularly in the public vision.
So this film on a son visiting his conservative church going religious parents & younger brother trying to find some last bit of love while debating how to tell them he's going to die.
Typical church reactions to those who stray. "No forgiveness in hell." "Whatever goes to hell, stays in hell."
A similar movie just watched "Transformer" about a transgender weightlifter covered many of the same intolerance issues.
http://bananamv.com/1985-2018/
cui_yinglan5 May 2019
Crash with the end of the world, but using the opposite expression, calm surface but inside is surging, delicate and restrained depression does not like the reality of conservative families in the western United States, but similar to Asian families.
Gem of a movie
rudylopez-351651 February 2023
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Wow! What a gem of a movie. I found the cinematography, the acting, the story, very engaging without overtly giving the plot away.
In fact, I would go so far to say, as this was probably the most discrete, and emotionally engaging movie on the AIDS crisis, and coming out that I've ever seen. I challenge the viewer of this film to look for those keywords that would describe what's going on in the picture. They are not spoken, they are not mentioned, yet the film is emotionally powerful because of that. It's as if the Director said, "let's tell a story without telling the story" It so good. I highly recommend it, and wish I had seen it in the theater.
In fact, I would go so far to say, as this was probably the most discrete, and emotionally engaging movie on the AIDS crisis, and coming out that I've ever seen. I challenge the viewer of this film to look for those keywords that would describe what's going on in the picture. They are not spoken, they are not mentioned, yet the film is emotionally powerful because of that. It's as if the Director said, "let's tell a story without telling the story" It so good. I highly recommend it, and wish I had seen it in the theater.
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