Too bad I couldn't understand I AM WITH AIDS - it appeared to be a pretty entertaining bit of Brazilian weirdness that I couldn't quite tell if it was supposed to be "serious" or some sort of joke due to the language barrier of me not speaking Portugese.
THe film shows a bunch of dramatizations of the pitfalls of such "aberrant" behavior as homosexuality, group-sex, sex with prostitutes, working in the porn-industry, and drug-abuse - and how all of these behaviors apparently inevitably result in contracting AIDS and then committing suicide - as all of the individuals in the dramatizations did. There are also a bunch of interviews, though I couldn't decipher the content of these interviews, or whether the interviewees maintained any real knowledge on any aspect of the subject of the AIDS virus - somehow I doubt it...
I AM WITH AIDS is getting a mediocre score from me for two main reasons - as blatantly exploitative as it seemed (which is a good thing in my book...) I just couldn't follow it enough to be sure. I think had it been subbed in English it would have been quite a bit more enjoyable (though I have no real way of knowing that for sure either). Also - though there was some nudity, there was none of the hardcore sex prevalent in other Brazilian exploit films, and this was a bit of a downer too. Overall, I AM WITH AIDS gets a 6/10 from me, for being a somewhat entertaining piece of mockumentary sleaze - might have done a little better had I been able to understand it.
THe film shows a bunch of dramatizations of the pitfalls of such "aberrant" behavior as homosexuality, group-sex, sex with prostitutes, working in the porn-industry, and drug-abuse - and how all of these behaviors apparently inevitably result in contracting AIDS and then committing suicide - as all of the individuals in the dramatizations did. There are also a bunch of interviews, though I couldn't decipher the content of these interviews, or whether the interviewees maintained any real knowledge on any aspect of the subject of the AIDS virus - somehow I doubt it...
I AM WITH AIDS is getting a mediocre score from me for two main reasons - as blatantly exploitative as it seemed (which is a good thing in my book...) I just couldn't follow it enough to be sure. I think had it been subbed in English it would have been quite a bit more enjoyable (though I have no real way of knowing that for sure either). Also - though there was some nudity, there was none of the hardcore sex prevalent in other Brazilian exploit films, and this was a bit of a downer too. Overall, I AM WITH AIDS gets a 6/10 from me, for being a somewhat entertaining piece of mockumentary sleaze - might have done a little better had I been able to understand it.