MIM Movie Review

This is an archive of the former website of the Maoist Internationalist Movement, which was run by the now defunct Maoist Internationalist Party - Amerika. The MIM now consists of many independent cells, many of which have their own indendendent organs both online and off. MIM(Prisons) serves these documents as a service to and reference for the anti-imperialist movement worldwide.

   Longtime Companion (1990)

   Intending to illuminate the collective experience of a community -
   "the" gay community - dealing with AIDS.  The subject alone is the
   political statement for Hollywood: a positive movie about gay people
   is political even without political content.  Still, that means a
   psychological approach to a political subject, so on that score it
   fails. Plus, it's about rich white men, and the empty characters'
   dialogue is flat to boot. The poignant death of a rich man with
   his paid servant is touching, but it's the the AIDS story (even in
   1990). Even the narrow activists who serve these men are ignored in
   the movie.