Silverlake Life - The View from Here
by Peter Friedman (II)
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Actor: Mark MassiDirector: Peter Friedman (II)
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New Video Group
Movie Reviews of Silverlake Life - The View from Here
Movie Review: Life with AIDS
Summary: 5 Stars
"Silverlake Life: The View from Here"
Life with AIDS
Amos Lassen and Cinema Pride
AIDS has been part of the subjects of gay movies for many years now. We cannot forget how the disease devastated our numbers and took beautiful people from us. There is no question that AIDS has influenced the way we act and think and even though it may no longer be a death sentence, we must not forget that there s still no cure and that we must live cautiously. Looking at "Silverlake Life" we see a period of time that was so very different than the way that we live today. It is a documentary about two men who live and die with the disease. As a film it will break your heart, it will make you laugh and it will move you.
Plain and straightforward, it is like watching a home movie. We see two men who love each other and how AIDS affects the quality of everyday lives.
Imagine, if you can, a film that has no frills, no extras, and no trained actors. This allows the film to be completely sincere. The integrity of the two men s incredible and as they are reduced to the most basic parts of their beings, we get to enter their lives and feel as if we belong there. These two men made this move so we could understand what the disease was doing.
As you meet Mark and Tom in the beginning of the film, you do so with humor. As the two begin to tell their story they touch you and you find that you are falling in love with them. Seeing the pain that these men carry is hard and it is even harder to see their death.
The documentary deals with more than AIDS---it shows many things about gay life. As it shows the love that the Tom and Mark shared for over 20 years, we see pain and pleasure and joy and empathy.
The most important thing that comes out of this movie is the impact of AIDS on the gay community. So much has happened medically and psychologically since 1993 when the film was released, that perhaps you might find it to be dated. We are not finished with AIDS yet and I d not know if we ever will be.
Looking at the relationship between Tom and Mark, we see love in what appears to be its purest form. Watching a movie about AIDS is not easy and here it is especially hard as we know the outcome before it happens. But "Silverlake" also teaches us how to care for each other in hard times and it shows life at any time reminding us that just a few steps away, there is a disease that could dispose of all of us.
The scene in which Tom sings "You Are My Sunshine" to Mark as he tells him goodbye is one that I will carry with me for the rest of my life.
I have one final thought---I realized how great it is to be alive in a world where all of us could be dead at the drop of a pin.
Summary of Silverlake Life - The View from Here
This tough, harrowing 1993 documentary began as a video journal by film instructor Tom Joslin, who wanted to capture details and insights into the process of his own slow death from AIDS, as well as that of his partner, Mark Massi. For much of its running time, Silverlake Life is precisely that, a book of days in which these longtime companions grow weaker, face their anger and grief, visit with friends and family for what may be the last time, attend therapy, and find that life is still--for the most part--a series of small, deceptively simple events and actions that might almost be forgotten if not for the shortage of time left. At a certain point, a former student of Joslin's, Peter Friedman, takes over the production, and the film instantly becomes a memory of itself, a tribute to two men who once lived in this world, found love together, and left this record of the way they died. --Tom Keogh10 years following its theatrical debut, this landmark film continues to captivate audiences around the world with its raw and powerful honesty. Winner of over 10 International Awards, including the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, SILVERLA
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