"No one would take on his case... until one man was willing to take on the system" the tagline for
the film 'Philadelphia.' This already tells us its going to be a film fighting for justice that has been
wrongly treated. Two men who are different one black, one white, one hetrosexual the other
homosexual but does that really make them different? Gay lawyer Andrew Beckett who is unjustly
fired by his firm because he has AIDS. Joe Miller is another lawyer (functioning as the mainstream
-audience surrogate which the director wanted) who reluctantly takes Beckett's case and learns to
overcome his misconceptions about the disease, about those who contract it, and about gay
people in general. In this film its about AIDS a concerning diseses that is around today, sexuality is
the issue in this film. The whole court case should be the main factor that he has AIDS but the issue
including this is his sexuality. There are a lot of homophobic people out there, the word AIDS then......

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Title: Film: Philadelphia, Aids/Gay
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