This could have been a very emotional story -- a man deciding to stop taking his AIDS medications and letting the inevitable decline happen while still a relatively young man (48, I think) with potentially many years of life ahead.
If it were fiction, I'm sure the author would have dialed up the drama and deeply explored the emotions of the man and his family and friends.
But this documentary is all glib surface. We don't know why the man is making this choice at this time -- he keeps saying he's decided "to stop fighting," but we never see nor are told what the fight entailed. Were his AIDS medications making him unable to work, unable to enjoy life, despond about the future? We never know.
His many goodbyes to family and friends across the country all mostly play out the same...it's like watching the same scene over and over.
In short, we never get to the heart of what should have been a heart-wrenching tale.
If it were fiction, I'm sure the author would have dialed up the drama and deeply explored the emotions of the man and his family and friends.
But this documentary is all glib surface. We don't know why the man is making this choice at this time -- he keeps saying he's decided "to stop fighting," but we never see nor are told what the fight entailed. Were his AIDS medications making him unable to work, unable to enjoy life, despond about the future? We never know.
His many goodbyes to family and friends across the country all mostly play out the same...it's like watching the same scene over and over.
In short, we never get to the heart of what should have been a heart-wrenching tale.
