When we first hear of AIDS we shudder, feel afraid and feel disgusted altogether...but after watching this touching movie from 1993 i had a different viewpoint...why should an AIDS patient be treated differently from the others...don't they have the same rights and privileges as we do ?
Andrew Beckett ( Tom hanks in tour de force performance much better than in Forrest Gump :-) ) is a respectable lawyer who is fired from his post because he has the symptoms of the illness which he hid from all of them for so long plus allegedly bungling up the most important case of the firm...he seeks the help of an personal injury lawyer Joe Miller( Denzel Washington superb as usual) who ignores him at first...
one scene that mirrors the facet of our modern society is the library sequence when people start ignoring Andrew and the librarian asking him to retire...any normal person would have done the same thing...this is the turning point of the movie...joe goes all out and finally wins the case for andrew...the final scene of andrew lying in his deathbed waiting for his impending doom is sure to melt the heart of anyone....this is one scene i always bawl my eyes out crying....
directed by Jonathan Demme ( the creepy silent of the lambs )...PHILADELPHIA is heartbreaking,powerful,message driven,inspiring,poetic and an oscar winning song by THE BOSS Bruce Springsteen ( Streets of philadelphia ) to add to it...go watch it if u haven't!!!!!
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