2014 · drama · music · political
The Normal Heart
Directed by Ryan Murphy2h 13m2014
The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial.
Our read: The Normal Heart (2014) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded drama · music · political entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured drama / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, tender.
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