Synopsis
The messenger has arrived.
In 1985, two couples' relationships dissolve amidst the backdrop of Reagan era politics, the spreading AIDS epidemic, and a rapidly changing social and political climate.
2003 Directed by Mike Nichols
In 1985, two couples' relationships dissolve amidst the backdrop of Reagan era politics, the spreading AIDS epidemic, and a rapidly changing social and political climate.
Anjos na América, Ingeri in America, Engel in Amerika, Andělé v Americe, Îngeri în America, Engle i Amerika, Анђели у Америци, Amerika'daki Melekler, Ангели в Америка, Ангелы в Америке, Angyalok Amerikában, Ángeles en América, מלאכים באמריקה, 天使在美国, Anioły w Ameryce, 엔젤스 인 아메리카, エンジェルス・イン・アメリカ, ანგელოზები ამერიკაში, Àngels a Amèrica
This epic film features Emma Thompson as an angel of the lord saying "The stiffening of your penis is of no consequence." and coining the phrase "Orgasma asmada." in the same scene.
Therefore, this is the greatest thing ever. Your argument is invalid.
"If I can find hope anywhere, that's it, that's the best I can do. It's so much not enough. It's so inadequate. But still bless me anyway. I want more life."
352 minutes of me rocking back and forth with my head in my hands repeatedly muttering “it’s the great American play it’s the great American play it’s the great American play”
“i try to tighten my heart into a knot, a snarl, i try to learn to live dead, just numb, but then i see someone i want, and it's like a nail, like a hot spike right through my chest, and i know i’m losing.”
i first learned what AIDS was in my eighth grade health class, during a unit on STDs. we learned its history, its symptoms, its causes, its prognosis, and who it affected - “homosexuals and addicts.” the word choice was very purposeful.
it wasn’t the first i’d heard of AIDS whatsoever - as it or “gay cancer” used to be one of the most popular insults on the playground behind “fag” or “fairy” - but it…
I-I-I-I-I love this movie. I saw it when in 2004, I was 14 years old and intellectually understood about 30% and emotionally understood 90% of it. Now I'm at about 70% / 95%
The play endures forever in theater canon, but a friend of mine pointed out that because the movie existed in the liminal space of prestige television (post Sopranos but pre-golden age) when straight male critics dominated the conservation there's barely any cultural memory of the film at all. It's so weird and good that it exists and it barely seems to at all, it feels like a dream I might have had but it happened.
It won like 42 Emmys, Pacino's best performance of the 21st century,…
If you're in the mood for a 6hr long opera on the human condition, in all sincerity, treat yourself to this work.
This gave me Meryl Streep making out with Emma Thompson therefore I am legally obliged to give it 5 stars
so many emotions. so much to see. so much to feel. so much life to live. fuck you i'm a prophet.
It doesn’t get much more “there’s a lot to unpack here” than Angels in America
Over the past few weeks of watching Mike Nichols' fabulous adaptation of Tony Kushner's play I sent myself a mess of notes on scenes and lines that I loved. This series really got my brain humming but rather than go into all the various pockets of this movie I wanted to drop the best line from the best character (imo), Belize (Jeffrey Wright), confronting the altruist progressive, Louis (Ben Shenkman), who's always thinking of making the future perfectible and so he can't be present with difficult and imperfect in the present:
"The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was…