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Beneath Clouds (2002)
Australian classic
Beneath Clouds...a classic movie, perhaps Australia's greatest. One of those rare scripts which includes long, silent expression as a big part of the dialogue. There is real magic in Dannielle Hall's face, on which the camera loves to linger for us. A fine study of blind racism and budding first love, with long distance trucks and ramshackle cafés grubbying the purity and mythic power of the Aussie outback as telling backdrop. All built on the classic form of road trip as attempted escape to a better world, punctuated with stops by hostile cops and other familiar dangers, but miraculously free of any taint of deja vu as a genuine bond emerges between two young people beset by the power and corruptions of a multi tribal adult world. And all is bound together seamlessly by the long held, steadying music, composed by Ivan Sen as he wrote the screenplay for his striking directorial accomplishment.
House of Numbers: Anatomy of an Epidemic (2009)
Masterful exposure of scientific incompetence, irrationality and poisonous politics
Compare the comments here pro and con, particularly with the way those angered by the film resort to politics instead of reason in saying that it is "dangerous" to expose the evident falsehoods of AIDS beliefs, and you have the best tip off to the stupendous quality of this movie and its relevance to saving people from false claims in HIV/AIDS.
It is quite clear by the end of this astonishing first feature by a young film maker that HIV is NOT the cause of AIDS and its deadly immune collapse, otherwise known as "HIV/AIDS", a label that implicitly makes an unproven claim that has appeared more hollow with every passing year. Nor is it infectious.
The universe of absurdities exposed by Leung's Socratic questioning of all the key HIV scientists leaves the viewer gasping at the effrontery with which the generals of HIV research claim that all their ridiculous assertions are true and good Western science.
In fact by the end of the film it is clear that HIV very probably does not cause anything at all, and the immune problems they label AIDS are simply common ailments such as drug poisoning, lack of adequate food and fresh water, extending to starvation, and all the usual tropical diseases in Africa, particularly a strong form of TB. They are rewriting common illness and calling it AIDS and saying it is caused by HIV, thereby justifying patients taking deadly drugs for no good reason whatsoever.
What the film makes especially clear is not only that the scientists who get so much funding for their AIDS research, and enjoy so much prestige, are making so many contrary statements that they are either fools or charlatans or both, but that they are willing to sacrifice patients lives rather than allow any review of their work.
The counter attack on this film from commentators who blindly support the reigning doctrine only goes to highlight the sorry state of affairs exposed by the film. They have no good reasons to say why we should not conclude from what the HIV scientists say that they don't know what they are doing, that the top scientists in HIV/AIDS agree more with their critics than they do with each other, and that all their obfuscation is based on assuming what is being questioned, ie that HIV causes infectious AIDS.
With utter plain speaking, Montagnier, the man who won the Nobel for discovering HIV, even says authoritatively that anyone with a healthy immune system will throw off HIV in two or three weeks. Africans given clean water and good food will do the same, and do not need deadly drugs delivered to them.
Once they are disbelieved, and HIV is recognized as in fact harmless, everything clears up, and makes sense. There are no paradoxes left if the audience simply follows along with Brent Leung's travels and comes to their own conclusions. This film makes no assertions of its own, yet shows us more clearly what the truth is than any movie which might have tried to tell us what to think.
As expose documentary this is a remarkable feat, and the first time it has been done in this tortured field in its 25 year history.
Every member of Congress and their staff should see this film, and so should every member of the New York Times who has gone along with that paper's 25 years of suppressing this obvious scandal by insulting the skeptics as crackpots, including Peter Duesberg, the chief critic, a scientist better credentialed than any who maintain he is wrong.
Yet Leung does the job of showing who is almost certainly right without depending even on Duesberg, whom he only shows briefly. An incredible feat! He simply provides a platform for these rascals to condemn themselves out of their own mouths!