Killing Patient Zero

3.3

Documentary

History

2019

99 min

After the Stonewall riots and at the height of the gay liberation movement in America, an entire generation were busy celebrating their newfound emancipation, unaware of an impending epidemic. A disease that seemed determined to wipe out an entire generation of gay men, was largely ignored by politicians and the mainstream media. Gaetan Dugas was a French-Canadian flight attendant, who offered to help early scientific research into the origins of AIDS. An unfortunate series of events followed and he would be vilified as Patient Zero, the man who gave us AIDS.

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Tracey Thoughts….💭

"I usually can’t watch too many gay documentaries because they make me cry my eyes out. This one was really beautiful and not what I was expecting at all from the description. I was expecting it to be a story about a media leak of the patients name and how it ruined his life and the storm that followed based on the synopsis as i wasn’t born when any of this happened and had never heard the term patient zero. I won’t spoil it but that’s not at all what it is. Also for my fellow Canadians it’s a lot of Canadians and patient zero is Canadian and worked for aircanada so that was shocking! I held my tears back till the very ending. It want a total sob story like most of the gay documentaries (they’re just always so darn tragic and never do anything to anyone)! Definitely recommend it!"

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