queerDOC — Day Two (part 1)

‘UNDETECTABLE’
Dir: Jay Cor­co­ran, USA, 2001, Beta SP, 76 mins
(25% full)
score: 3 out of 5
Well, okay, not the best film ever made, but still some inter­est­ing stuff. This film fol­lows 6 peo­ple as they try to com­bat HIV over a four year peri­od. More than any­thing its an edu­ca­tion­al film for peo­ple that don’t know about AIDS or HIV, of which there are more and more.
The film is one of the depress­ing ones I was expect­ing to be part of the fes­ti­val of the 6 peo­ple the film fol­lowed, two of them were dead at the end and only two had a viral load at unde­tectable lev­els.
The word ‘Cured’ is not used when dis­cussing HIV, the clos­est is ‘cop­ing well with treat­ment’.
AIDS has now been around for 20 years, with the first case of diag­no­sis in the US in 1981. But with the treat­ments that exist now there is a mis­con­cep­tion by the world that AIDS is under con­trol.
After the screen­ing there was a dis­cus­sion that attempt­ed to bring the issues of the film to an Aus­tralian con­text.
For more infor­ma­tion about queer­DOC 2001 or Queer Screen.