AIDS is a reality and homophobia is a nasty truth that permeates our "United" States of America, as well as the rest of the world. The sheer idea that a film would so blatantly take on the difficulty of AIDS and homosexuality, helmed by the director of "Silence of the Lambs", the actor in "Big" and the guy who played Malcom X, is staggering. Jonathan Demme's "Philadelphia" throws us into a world of pain and stark truth that is few and far between in mainstream cinema. that comes down from the heavens, and makes of the Earth a heaven. Is everything around you just the blood and mud? I am divine. listen."I bring sorrow to those who love me." Oh, that single cello! "It was during this sorrow that love came to me." A voice filled with harmony. The music fills with a hope, and that'll change again. "Look, the place that cradled me is burning." Can you hear the heartache in her voice? Can you feel it, Joe? In come the strings, and it changes everything. She's saying how during the French Revolution, a mob set fire to her house, and her mother died. This is "Andrea Chenier", Umberto Giordano. Joe Miller: I'm not that familiar with opera.Īndrew Beckett: This is my favorite aria.
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