Daybreak
by Stephen Tolkin
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Actor: Jr. Cuba Gooding, Martha Plimpton, Moira Kelly, Omar EppsDirector: Stephen Tolkin
Brand: HBO Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Stereo; English (Original Language), Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: 90872
Studio: Hbo Home Video
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- In the not-too-distant future, America has been ravaged by a deadly epidemic. To contain it, the government quarantines the victims and leaves them to die. But now a band of rebels have taken to the streets to save the lives of those in need. Can they take on the government and survive?Running Time: 88 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: PG-13 Age: 026359
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Movie Review: Daybreak
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this movie late at night when I was unable to sleep. Cuba Gooding Jr.and Moira Kelly were selected beautifully in the roles of the starcrossed lovers. As for the comment above, referring to the situation having not come to pass and that there are treatments,this is true. However, This is about AIDS despite the fact the word was never uttered but expressed in many other ways. The movie is set in the future,and let us keep in mind the AIDS virus continues to mutate. Can we say that in the future this may NOT come to pass? Despite the bleak way of life and the "Big Brother environment",I cannot help but feel that this movie comes across as hopeful, to the extent, that at the conclusion the girl(Blue) quite literally takes on the job of her lover, thereby, ( not lost on me) picking up the "Torch" both literally and figuratively. He (her lover's name was Torch)could handle living his life to its horrible conclusion, alone and sick with the illness that plagued him, if he knew she was out there living and continuing to keep the cause alive. Compassion and caring would not die with him as he made the sacrifice for the two of them by sending her away instead of keeping her to himself. She, instead, would serve the greater good and take care of others being able to help more than just himself. He could take heart in knowing he did not die in vain, as he had groomed her into the job himself.What was the cause you might ask? Setting up ambushes of shipments of the sick being transferred to quarantined areas so that it was possible to offer comfort to the sick and dying. Cures were not being researched. It was easier to send away the sick and tattoo them with a "P"for postive, that cannot be removed, than to research treatments and cures, supply funding, and educate the masses on the disease. The greatest hurt was in knowing that Blue herself had, unwittingly, betrayed Torch and killed his "son" Willie. Blue was naive and thought her friend~who had felt snubbed since Torch came along~would not betray her. The friend had disclosed the information Blue gave her in trust, to the authorities. Now Clue has to pay the price in the loss of her love(Torch), Willie(The boy she was treating as her own son) and her former existence. No longer was she oblivious to the true cruelty to those sick and needing compassion and respect instead of warehousing and degradation until they died. By the way any of you who think "They" are really working on a cure for AIDS and HIV are living in the same state of mind as our heroine of the movie. They are looking for ways to manage the disease. Not cures. There is no money in curing diseases. pharmaceutical companies are making a killing off of this and other diseases, literally.
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