PHILADELPHIA (1993) TWIN BROTHERS FIRST TIME WATCHING MOVIE REACTION!
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When I was working in a hospital in the 90s I had a patient with AIDS. 20 years old, gay, dying, and disowned by his family. No loved ones, friends, nobody ever visited him. He was a sweet kid and some of my fellow staff, who knew better than to be scared of this disease, didn't want to be the ones assigned to him, so I requested his room when I worked even if it wasn't in my group of patients for the day. Did that for a few weeks. Came in one morning and he was gone. Died in the night, alone, probably scared. Broke my heart.
Tom Hanks delivered another stellar performance in this. but what blew me away was Antonio Banderas playing his partner and doing that so well!
The court scene when they ask the women how she contracted AIDS, and she had to admit that it was through a blood transfusion, and the look she gives Andy, as to say I'm so sorry they made me testify. It was a thing, that people had some small sympathy for people who got AIDS "through no fault of their own", and condemnation for gay men who "got what they deserved". It still makes my stomach churn and my blood boil today.
This film made me think of Freddie Mercury, and what he went through with AIDS before dying in 1991.😢😢😢
This was Antonio Banderas' first American film role, and he barely spoke a word of English. He learned his lines phonetically, and really didn't know what he was saying.
My dad passed from complication of AIDS in 2001. He just got to see my first born. I'm so glad with today's science and information much less people are affected and when they are they can lead much longer and healthier lives 💛💛💛
My brother's partner died in 1991 and his family totally abandoned him, but the nurses thought our dad was his dad. Our dad was holding his hand when he died. My brother worked for Southwestern Bell and even in the 80s his partner was on his insurance, but my sister and her husband paid for his medication which was a couple a thousand dollars a month. BJ and my brother did drag to help raise money for a clinic in Houston because the Reagan administration was ignoring it all.
There is a movie called "The Normal Heart" that is about the AIDS epidemic from the 80s. No one knew much about it back then, so it covers the stigma that it was mainly a disease spread by homosexuals. It has Mark Ruffalo, Jim Parsons, Julia Roberts and was really good the way it covered it .. RT gave it 94 critic / 88 audience score. A lot of nominations and worth a watch.
As a side note. All the extras were real AIDS patients. Non of whom lived to see the final film.
Thank you so much for reacting to this movie. I was diagnosed HIV/AIDS in 1987, six years before this movie and it was so true to life it was hard to watch and even now it is a walk down memory lane and the dark days of the pandemic. Bring diagnosed in 1987 (before any medications), the stigma against those with this disease was huge and was actively encouraged by the government. I was subjected to this stigma myself, was fired from several jobs, disowned by my family and subjected to harassment and even a beating that nearly cost me my life. I lost 267 of my friends to this disease and it is rare to find those who even remember those dark days of the HIV pandemic or who can even contemplate the way society treated those of us who had this disease. This movie is so very special to me and its always a blessing to find a reaction channel willing to tackle the movie.
As a gay man, having lived through the plague while seeing friends die, refused jobs and watching their bodies thrown out like trash by hospitals (Literally in garbage bags), I can tell you both that this film was tame compared to the reality of what it was like for my people. That said, given when it was made, it was a glorious fuck you to heteronormative supremacy at a time when our lives were deemed disposable by politicians and religion. Hanks, Banderas and Washington chewed up the screen and it was glorious.
Dang. Reading through the comments is breaking my heart.
The moment where he can't even get a hustler lawyer to take his case is one of the most powerful Hanks has ever filmed. When he walks outside after being denied by Washington's character, you can see his world crumbling. I was a kid when I saw this movie, and it made me cry. The attitudes towards AIDS and gay people in general by people in power caused a lot of death and suffering. Harder for younger people today to understand, but you guys got it.
Geesh, I just love you guys. I was in elementary school when this came out, but the hospital bed screen has always stayed with me. Tom Hanks & Denzel Washington are freaking Beasts. But no one movie makes me cry more than The Elephant Man. I cried so much seeing that movie as a kid my Mama thought I was losing it. I cried even more when I found out later that it was a true story.
I lived through this. When this movie came out, it felt like therapy.
I think the whole thing with the mother is her being heartbroken that her child is sick. In the beginning with the phone call you can see her being choked up when he asked her how she was because it's a kick in the heart to have someone you know is terminally sick want to make sure you're okay. In the home movie she was watching him going around being in high spirits and happy with everyone but he's still sick, and now he's got this lawsuit and people saying awful things about him. Cause she did say, "go out there and fight for your rights, I didn't raise my kids to sit in the back of the bus". She's a parent and that's her baby, even if he is a full grown man.
Caring for someone you love and day by day seeing their deterioration is difficult, you take your 10min to cry, but then you go right back with a smile to assure them they are not alone.
Great choice. It was an excellent movie. It was 13 years after AIDS first appeared in the US. We have come along way. Now it is considered a chronic illness with normal lifespan if caught early and given meds. Life span was six months in the 80’s before meds became available. Also what people didn’t realize, we were more of a danger to people with AIDS then they were to other people. They were more susceptible to getting sick from other people.
The early days of AIDS were dark and full of death and ignorance and most of us gen Xers know people who died of it. A friend of mine from high school died of it when she was only 22, having gotten it from the first guy she slept with. So tragic.