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Zero
Patience (1993)
(เสียงอังกฤษไม่มีบรรยาย) |
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Director: John
GreysonProducer:Louise
Garfield, Anna Stratton
Screenplay by:John
Greyson
Music
by:Glenn
Schellenberg
Cinematography:Miroslaw
Baszak
Edited by:Miume
Jan
Running time:95
minutes Country:Canada Language:English,
French
Genre:Musical
Subtitle:English
Starring:
John
Robinson as Sir Richard Burton,
Normand Fauteux as Zero,
Dianne Heatherington as Mary,
Richardo Keens-Douglas as George,
Charlotte Boisjoli as Maman,
Zero''s mother,
Brenda Kamino as Dr. Cheng, Zero''s doctor,Michael
Callen as Miss HIV,
Marla Lukofsky as African Green Monkey,
Von Flores as Ray (ACT UP member),
Scott Hurst as Michael (ACT UP
member),
Duncan McIntosh as Ross (ACT UP member) |
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หนังเกย์ musical
เรื่องเยี่ยมจากแคนาดาขวัญใจนักวิจารณ์ ที่พูดถึงโรคเอดส์ hivได้อย่างครื้นเครง
แต่ก็ลึกซึ้ง เป็นหนังเพลงที่ประกอบไปด้วยภาพและฉากอันแปลกตา
Zero Patience is a 1993 Canadian musical film written
and directed by John Greyson. The film examines and refutes the urban legend of
the alleged introduction of HIV to North America by a single individual, Gaëtan
Dugas. Dugas, better known as Patient Zero, was tagged in the popular
imagination with the blame in large measure because of Randy Shilts''s history of
the early days of the AIDS epidemic, And the Band Played On (1987). The film
tells its story against the backdrop of a romance between a time-displaced Sir
Richard Francis Burton and the ghost of "Zero" (the character is not identified
by Dugas'' name).
Produced in partnership with the Canadian Film Centre,
the Canada Council, Telefilm Canada and the Ontario Film Development
Corporation, Zero Patience opened to mixed reviews but went on to win a number
of prestigious Canadian film awards. The film has been the subject of critical
attention in the context of both film theory and queer theory and is considered
part of the informal New Queer Cinema movement.
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รางวัล:3
wins & 1 nomination.
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Cinéfest Sudbury 1993
Genie Awards 1994
Toronto International Film Festival 1993
Won
Best Canadian Feature Film - Special
Jury Citation |
John Greyson |
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Plot summary
Victorian adventurer and sexologist Sir Richard
Francis Burton (John Robinson), following an
"unfortunate encounter" with the Fountain of Youth
in 1892, is 170 years old and living in Toronto,
Canada. Burton, now living and working as the chief
taxidermist at a Museum of Natural History, is
searching for a centerpiece display for an exhibit
in his Hall of Contagion. He comes up with the idea
of featuring AIDS and the Patient Zero hypothesis.
Accepting the popular belief that Zero introduced
the virus to North America, Burton sets out to
collect video footage from those who knew Zero to
support the hypothesis. When Zero''s doctor (Brenda
Kamino), mother (Charlotte Boisjoli) and former
airline colleague Mary (Dianne Heatherington), who
is now with ACT UP, all refuse to demonize Zero,
Burton manipulates the footage to make it appear as
if they do and includes doctored photographs of Zero
showing signs of Kaposi''s sarcoma. He presents this
preliminary version to the press.
The ghost of Zero (Normand Fauteux) materializes at
a local gay bathhouse. No one can see or hear him,
until Zero runs into Burton while Burton is spying
on Zero''s friend George. Zero realizes that Burton
can see him, although Zero does not show up on
Burton''s video camera. The two strike a deal; Zero
agrees to help Burton with his Patient Zero exhibit
if Burton finds a way to make Zero appear.
The two return to the museum where Burton makes a
ridiculous attempt to seduce Zero to ensure his
participation. Rejecting his advances, Zero examines
some of the other exhibits (including displays on
Typhoid Mary and the Tuskegee syphilis study) before
finding an African green monkey, another suspected
early AIDS vector. The monkey (Marla Lukofsky)
angrily denounces Zero for scapegoating her just as
he has been scapegoated. Zero turns to Burton and
they make love.
Under pressure from his director and the exhibit''s
drug manufacturer sponsor, Burton steals Zero''s
medical records in hopes of discovering new
information. Zero and Burton examine an old blood
sample of Zero''s under a microscope and discover
Miss HIV (Michael Callen), who points out that the
original study that was used to label Patient Zero
as the first person to bring HIV to North America
did not prove any such thing, but instead helped
prove that HIV was sexually transmitted, leading to
the development of safer sex practices. Under this
interpretation, Zero could be lauded as a hero for
his candor in participating in that original study.
As Burton ponders this, an unknown fluid squirts
from the eye pieces of the microscope, drenching
Zero and making him appear on video. He joyously
declares his innocence on tape but the effect only
lasts five minutes before he fades away again. Zero
angrily accuses Burton of not caring for him at all
and only wanting to use him for the exhibit, then
storms out.
Burton fails to complete the revised Patient Zero
exhibit before its scheduled opening date. The
museum curator substitutes the original presentation
instead over Burton''s protests, leading to a renewed
rush of press scapegoating Zero. The night after the
exhibit opens, Mary and other ACT UP members break
into the Hall of Contagion and trash the exhibit.
Zero returns and Burton explains that he tried to
stop the exhibit. Zero forgives Burton but says he
wants to disappear again completely. Zero merges
with his disfigured video image and, smoking a
cigarette inside the video, sets off the fire alarm.
The sprinklers destroy the video player and Zero
vanishes.
A major subplot involves George (Richardo
Keens-Douglas), a French teacher and former intimate
of Zero''s. George is losing his sight to
cytomegalovirus and is taking a drug that is
manufactured by a company that, as a member of ACT
UP, George is protesting. George struggles through
the film to resolve his conflicted feelings over
this, his guilt over abandoning Zero during the
final days of his illness and his fear that the same
thing will happen to him.
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