angels in america part one millennium approaches 2017

Others found it to be hard work and one simply didn’t like it because it was full of stereotypes. The playwright misdirects us and then questions our misdirections. Something to wrestle with, this is a play that deals with the transition between AIDS and post AIDS, of powerful ideologies becoming less believed and the dialectic between ideological certainty and human uncertainty and the chaos that ensues. Its theme is the necessity for people to change, the scariness of change, while most of us would prefer to just let things stay as they are.’ This isn’t about gays, it isn’t about AIDS, it isn’t about Jews and it isn’t about Mormons. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by Tony Kushner, this remarkable piece of narrative storytelling grips our attention and elicits our admiration by the remarkable depth of the various subplots that meld together to produce a multilayered narrative that leaves the viewer wondering at the end of the movie what exactly was it really all about!2 As one observant critic put it: The extraordinary movie accomplishment Angels in America (2000) not only swept the board with 11 Emmys, but also managed creatively and ingeniously to tell four stories at the same time, linking them together by a dramatic plot situated in the homosexual community of the 1980s a group of individuals endeavoring to grapple with the life-threatening phenomenon of HIV/AIDS. They want a sense of purpose, a narrative arc to their lives, something that will relieve a chronic loneliness or lift them above the exhausting, relentless toll of daily life.” (Barach Obama) They are deciding that their work, their possessions, their diversions, their sheer busyness are not enough. “Each day, it seems, thousands of Americans are going about their daily rounds - dropping off the kids at school, driving to the office, flying to a business meeting, shopping at the mall, trying to stay on their diets - and coming to the realization that something is missing.

Angels in america part one millennium approaches 2017