Trench warfare and permanent warfare in the AIDS response
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Health education, AIDS, Health communication, Cinematographic films, BrazilAbstract
This review analyzes the film Os primeiros soldados, by Rodrigo de Oliveira (Brazil, 2021). The film presents the lives of three characters throughout 1983, in Brazil, dealing with the discovery of AIDS in their lives. Their networks of relationships, their plans, and particularly the strategies for understanding and coping skills with the disease are shown. In the tradition of cinematographic productions that focus on the ways in which the LGBTQIAP+ population faced AIDS, the film features three common people, who do not lead social movements, but make efforts to understand what the disease is and how they can learn from it. When narrating this confrontation, the film values the constructed affections, the care strategies, the attempts to gain knowledge by observing the trajectory of the disease, and the new perceptions that the characters have around the precariousness of life and their vulnerability in society.
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