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House of Numbers
- Director: Brent Leung
- Producer: Bob Frisco; Brent Leung
CGiii Comment
Denial - whether it be Holocaust, Global Warming or HIV/AIDS...has a right to be heard - no matter how difficult those opinions/arguments are - it balances the equation.
It all comes down to evidence - not hearsay - tangible evidence.
House of Numbers is a perfect example of how to contort facts - through editing, through shabby research, through blinkered priority.
There is no balance here - although some viewers may think there is...what is rightly revealed is HIV/AIDS is BIG business - within a political maelstrom.
Many minds are working profitably - surely, the time has come when these great minds are brought together to share and advance knowledge - but that goes against the doctrine of business. Think on - independently.
Leung's approach is juvenile, awkward and insulting - the scene where he refuses to declare his own sexuality is monumental in revealing his immaturity and hypocrisy.
This young man has an agenda and an ego to match - both are virulently irresponsible.
The final moronic speech, delivered in a graveyard, will induce anyone with half a brain to strangle this little runt.
LET THIS RUNT FALL.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
What is HIV? What is AIDS? What is being done to cure it? These questions sent Canadian filmmaker Brent Leung on a worldwide journey, from the highest echelons of the medical research establishment to the slums of South Africa, where death and disease are the order of the day. In this up-to-the-minute documentary, he observes that although AIDS has been front-page news for over 28 years, it is barely understood. Despite the great effort, time, and money spent, no cure is in sight. Born in 1980 (on the cusp of the epidemic), Leung reveals a research establishment in disarray, and health policy gone tragically off course. Gaining access to a remarkable array of the most prominent and influential figures in the field -- among them the co-discoverers of HIV, presidential advisors, Nobel laureates, and the Executive Director of UNAIDS, as well as survivors and activists -- his restrained approach yields surprising revelations and stunning contradictions.
Postscript...
Christine Maggiore, the HIV+ activist who has avoided antiretroviral drugs with supposedly no ill consequences, is dead. She died of AIDS-related pneumonia, aged 52. Her daughter Eliza Jane, whose contraction of HIV was undoubtedly helped by Maggiore's refusal of antiretrovirals and breast feeding, also died of AIDS-related pneumonia, aged 3.
Second, Kim Marie Bannon, another of the film's HIV+ activists who has avoided antiretroviral drugs with supposedly no ill consequences, is presently residing in a care home with HIV encephalitis. She is dying of AIDS.
Cast & Characters
Luc Montagnier as Himself;
Francois Barre-Sinnousi as Herself;
Anthony Fauci as Himself;
Kenneth Cole as Himself;
James Curran as Himself;
David Baltimore as Himself;
Donald P. Francis as Himself;
Michael Gottlieb as Himself;
Harold Jaffe as Himself;
Daniel Kuritzkes as Himself;
Reinhard Kurth as Himself;
Joseph B. McCormick as Himself;
John P. Moore as Himself;
Peter Piot as Himself;
Donald Abrams as Himself