Angels in America
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Movie Reviews of Angels in America
Movie Review: DISAPPOINTMENT
Summary: 2 Stars
It potraits people with AIDS/HIV as victims or as Angels. Well, there is nothing angelic about an individual who chooses to have sex with others who do not take into account the consequences about irresponsible sex. People get what they have coming to them. This film takes away all the responsibility away from those who have choosen not to be responsible. These people are Not victims, there Are a natural consequence to themselves. Get me a violin. I do have to admit; The acting is great. Movie Review: magical
Summary: 5 Stars
It's jsut wonderful, magical, great.... with great actors and actresses. Specially Meryl Streep, who plays 3 very different roles in it. I saw it some time ago, but I had to buy it for my collection. Movie Review: weary of the proselytizing
Summary: 3 Stars
For a long time I have had this movie on my "list" of movies to watch because I liked what the critics had to say about it. The first hour or so was interesting, the struggle of choosing which comes first--your family or your lover. Then it progressed to the conflict between homosexual segments of the Jewish culture and Mormon culture and Reagan White House culture--and every character began to speak in what became monologues--even though it was supposed to be dialogue. There were a lot of profound thoughts--but the writer seemed to be intent on making every line of "dialogue" a profound thought--and wasn't content to limit each character to a few profound thoughts at at time but had to string them all together in long lines of dialogue that morphed into monologue. Unfortunately, when one character rattles on for five minutes at a time, those profound thoughts begin to sound like the jabbering heard in a room full of drunks. By the time I got to the second disk I was sick of their proselytizing and decided this movie is one of the worst bunches of crap I've ever listened to. Yes, AIDS is a horrible disease--I've lost friends to it. Yes, the world population is killing itself over prejudice. No, I'm not a Reagan Republican--I was a university student in California when Reagan was govenor of the state. He paid people to aim their guns at me--I've never forgiven the people in charge for allowing that to happen. Yes, there were good performances--and I applaud the actors for their work. However, I would not recommend this movie to anyone who isn't just a tad bit stoned.Movie Review: The future could have been so much better than our present
Summary: 5 Stars
Welcome to New York in Reagan's time, in the days when Reagan declared that AIDS was a divine punishment to homosexuals. And AIDS are taking their toll on gay men in New York City. All kinds, from the prudent to the careless, from the loving and lovable to the hateful and spiteful. But indeed the film is not about that, them and their types, or even those who can afford AZT or not. It is about love and what love can be, how love can be revealed when confronted to some treachery, or what looks like some treachery though it is only fright in front of the disease for some or coming out of the closet for others. Add to that a new born homosexual who is a reaganite and a mormon at the same time, which is a lot against his new birth and a clear cut condemnation that will prevent him from being properly baptized and christened. Add to that a mormon mother taken in the whirlwind and whirlpool of this revelation and confrontation to death and how she will be able to cope for one and even save the day of several of them, including her own son. But even so, that's only one little part of the film. It then plays on the visions some have, on the angels some can see, all angels of death. Those angels take the shape of Ethel Rosenberg for the lawyer who managed to get her death penalty. The angels also take the shape of a real female angel with wings and all that is able to take a couple more to their death, lead them to the ladder, Jacob's ladder that leads straight up to heavens. But that both Christian and Jewish imagery and symbolism is not enough to satisfy the baroque taste of the director. Heaven is not going to be the garden you may think it is. It is a vast ruined temple and city where some clerk or even bureaucrats are managing the fate of the dead from behind a long table piled up with files and papers, and the prophet who is probably not as Jewish as many others refuses to abide by their decision and demands more life and he does go back to life, he resurrects in a way. And this leads to the end of Reagan, of the cold war, the perestroika and Gorbachev, and a new era in the world. If only they could have known this new era was going to lead to eight years of absolutely nightmarish regression, two wars, and a lot of terrorism amplified and multiplied by the war-mongering of a vengeful tribe of American politicians who did not deserve to be appointed to their positions, and I say appointed since they were not elected properly, at least for those who should have been elected. In retrospect the joy of 1990, January 1990 mind you, hardly three months after the fall of the Berlin Wall was going to be rather short-lived and be buried in the sex-play of a president and then the bellicose vengeful adventures of another. Altogether by far nearly sixteen years lost to the phantasms of two men. Yes the angels are in America, the angels of death that give you a wet dream first and lead you to death afterwards, the little death and the big death unified in one single jump into empty space and the fall through the cosmos. An amazing film that seems to reflect a whole period and at the same time to express the distantiation we have been able to build thanks to nearly twenty years of crisis and plain at times painful living.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
Movie Review: Simply the BEST!
Summary: 5 Stars
The TV adaptation of Angels in America is simply the finest work ever produced for television. Had it been released in theaters it would now hold the record for Academy Awards. The story, the story, the story, the acting, the acting, the acting, and of course the directing, the directing, the directing.