fisher@dssdev.DEC (Gerry Fisher --- Terminally Inane) (03/11/86)
"Parting Glances" (Gary, you beat me to it!) >Some secondary points: Even though one of the major supporting characters has >AIDS, this is clearly a movie about people, and not about the disease. Secondary point, on the contrary! I think that although flawed, this movie is a breakthrough of sorts for gay film making. As a local reviewer in the Boston Phoenix put it, "(the film maker's) not out to raise anyones consciousness or to turn his characters' every word and deed into a definition of the gay experience [or into a weepy expose about having AIDS, I might add]; the people on screen are neither role models nor stereotypes." Bingo!!!!!!! Let's hear it for AIDS and homosexuality as experienced by everyday [New York City] people. The film is worth investigation. Has anyone else out there seen the film? Gerry Fisher ...decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-dssdev!fisher *************************************************************************** "You don't have to watch Dynasty To have an attitude" --Prince