This is a scene of almost abdominal distress, where he is being diagnosed with the disease by his personal Doctor, who by the way, do not dares label him with such term. “Homosexuals are men who know nobody and who nobody know” – expresses Al Pacino´s character at the end of Chapter 1. Still, its authentic lifeblood drifts from the elegiac telling of various relationships collapsing in cataclysm, due to its participants´ concealed guilt.
Nevertheless, it has earned its place on this list due to its colossal undertaking on the topic of the AIDS epidemic back in 1985.
