“If it is true that one death is a tragedy, and a million deaths a statistic, this is a story about statistics… the millions of people in poor countries who died needlessly of AIDS while giant pharmaceutical companies blocked access to the low-cost medicine which could have saved their lives.”
This quote, in the voice of William Hurt, coming with the backdrop of a montage of shots from India and several African nations, sets the mood for Dylan Mohan Gray’s hard-hitting, investigative documentary film “Fire in the Blood” that chronicles the fight of activists against the refusal of pharma giants like Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline to free the Antiretroviral drugs from the patent regime and thus make unpatented, generic, low-cost drugs available to millions of AIDS patients in the developing and least-developed countries.
Narrated by Hollywood actor Hurt, the film chronicles the events in the late 1990s during which activists in Africa,...
This quote, in the voice of William Hurt, coming with the backdrop of a montage of shots from India and several African nations, sets the mood for Dylan Mohan Gray’s hard-hitting, investigative documentary film “Fire in the Blood” that chronicles the fight of activists against the refusal of pharma giants like Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline to free the Antiretroviral drugs from the patent regime and thus make unpatented, generic, low-cost drugs available to millions of AIDS patients in the developing and least-developed countries.
Narrated by Hollywood actor Hurt, the film chronicles the events in the late 1990s during which activists in Africa,...
- 5/22/2014
- by Utpal Borpujari
- DearCinema.com
O ne of the emptiest sentiments to be widely echoed in every corner of the liberal world is that every human life is equally valuable. The country from where this is heard most persistently is the United States, a country which often uses its concern for human life as political justification for military intervention. Hollywood is virtually the liberal heart of the Us but any scrutiny of Hollywood’s humanistic discourses reveals the asymmetry in American humanism. In a war film like Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down (2001) Somalians die in uncounted numbers while each American death is separately wept over. Since this is a review of a film about illness and the pharmaceutical industry I should perhaps cite a relevant Hollywood film here as well. In Wolfgang Petersen’s Outbreak (1995) a terrible disease which originates in Africa spreads to the Us and the film ends happily when the Us is rid of it.
- 10/20/2013
- by MK Raghavendra
- DearCinema.com
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