"The Normal Heart," new
version established on HBO on Sunday. It is based on Larry Kramer's 1985 play
about the start of the AIDS crisis.
This movie gives us a fairly
devastating look at the HIV/AIDS crisis and it is struck the gay community in
New York in early 1980.
The film, directed by Ryan Murphy, featured with Mark
Ruffalo as Ned Weeks, including Julia Roberts
as a doctor who essentially made it her life's mission to understand and treat
the disease, and Matt Bomer as
the New York Times reporter who became
the love of Ned's life. Taylor Kitsch, Johnathan Groff, Alfred Molina.
Ryan Murphy did such a wonderful job;
it shows the hideous ravages of AIDS. A gay Jewish-American writer who spoke
very loudly and publicly about the disease to help educate the public at a time
when many nurses and doctors refused to even enter the same room as a patient
exhibiting symptoms.
When the film opens, AIDS was
unknown. By the end, the final sentence reminds: "Since 1981, more than 36
million worldwide have died. More than 6,000 people every day are infected with
the virus."
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