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After reading the film
review “'Life, Above All' Confronts
the South African AIDS Pandemic with Care and Honesty” by Tomas
Hachard of the movie Life, Above All (http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/151980-life-above-all/)
I couldn’t help but to ponder of the whole world and our misperception of
things around us. AIDS, which is formerly known as Acquired immune
deficiency syndrome, a disease in which there is a severe loss of the body's
cellular immunity. In the movie Life,
Above All, which is based on a family in Africa, they lie about their baby's death, saying she died
of influenza and not AIDS. The mom loses her
baby because of her sick breast milk and the father heavily blames her, not
knowing that he himself also has the disease.
After reading this review it brought my
attention back to a particular film I watched in health class one year in high
school titled Philadelphia with Tom
Hanks. Through the plot of this movie Tom Hanks is homosexual and contracts AIDS but doesn’t know how, and later is accused by his company firm and fired because
of it. Tom Hanks thought he caught the AIDS by shaking a man’s hand, which is
misperceived because contracting this disease is through human intercourse
(body fluid). Just as in the movie Life,
Above All this family is misperceived by the disease and how it is contracted
and that the father probably has it if the wife does.
When I think about all the diseases in
the world and all the countries that don’t have technology or the availability
to it, it makes me really sad to know that these people have no idea what is
wrong with them and how to prevent it. The world needs to educate each other
and it is difficult to do when there is the IPAD 2 coming out and instead of
giving two hundred dollars away to treat twenty people in Africa with AIDS. Our
country just seems to want more and more after we have a taste of technologies
first advances. If we all partook in at least donating or educating those less
fortunate than maybe our misperceptions of certain diseases wouldn’t be so low.
Movies such as Life, Above All is one movie that will probably make you feel fortunate
for the life you live and really want to
educate others about all the life-threatening problems we have in today’s
society.
Love life,
April Opatik
p.s. Updated 12/7/11 for picture that wasn't found with the coding. |
This seems like a very eye-opening film. I think that education of the disease would help those who do not have the resources to the information. It makes me wonder if the money that is donated to Bono's charity RED partially go toward educating those who have the disease as well as preventing further outbreaks. It is sad that many want things that they do not need or have things that function perfectly but are not the newest and up-to-date. That money could be going to a better cause.
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