Introso – EL
Reaction Paper
“And the band played on” was a story of the discovery of the
AIDS virus. From the early days in 1978 when numerous San Francisco
gays began dying from unknown causes, to the identification of the HIV
AIDS working separately but only before already a lot of people has
the particular, we can see the general in the particular in the movie
We can see in the film the power of society to affect our actions,
thoughts, and feelings. A good instance on the film was when the “gay
cancer” guy started to put pliers out and started making them realize
that typecasting AIDS as a gay cancer is not right. We may think that
his actions were brought by his own judgment to act accordingly, but
we can also think that he made his decisions with social matters in his
something about it. The society defines the people with this disease
and how should the people who has it must behave. Another
favor of the initially strange notion that society shapes our thoughts
and deeds. For example, in the movie when Dr. Don Francis (CDC
diseases are.” Such response may seem right to him. But is he telling
maybe it is natural for his line of work to enter in the government. Also
that it is his choice maybe society has something to do with it. Third
context. We can see that even in our most personal choice society can
dictate us. In the case of Dr. Francis giving samples to the French as
common courtesy, Dr. Gallo perceived the good notion otherwise. Dr.
Gallo believed that Dr. Francis liked the French and that it is his own
decision to help them thinking only about himself. We can clearly see
in the film that Dr. Francis decision was affected by social matter, in
this case courtesy. Dr. Gallo is wrong when he thought that this was a
perspective can also be observed in the film. We can clearly see this
in the first scenes where people in Africa are dying of because of AIDS.
to let other people know and otherwise know the peoples problem
between them. In the movie because America was not also aware of
the disease if quickly spread like wildfire affecting every victim in its
path. Society has a major job of knowing these kinds of things and
One of the two major issues that affected me the most is how it
took so long for the government and other faction included (like the
can see in the film that the blood bank could not even approve to
spend money in making tests on the bloods they are offering to check
whether it has the disease or not, also public bath houses at first was
be the main cause of the spread in the virus. I could not believe that in
these severe cases these factions manage to think only about their
selves and for their well being only. I believe that the effect of the
working together in defeating the disease for the good of the whole,
instead they opt to clash over who discovered the virus first holding up
act toward things based on the meaning of those things have for them;
and these meanings are derived from social interaction and modified
other's actions. One great example of these in the movie was how it
was hard for the government to close the public bath houses, because
these were symbols of sexual freedom for the gays they know that
closing it would violate their freedom and will have harse reactions
from the gay community. And that closing these house would create