What I'm Watching #279

"Pedro" is the story of Pedro Zamora, the young AIDs activist who's short life met both it's zenith and its conclusion with the second season of MTV's "Real World: San Francisco". Written by Dustin Lance Black, who also gave us "Milk" and "Hoover." He cut his screenwriter's teeth on this well crafted story of the life of one of the most important AIDs activists in my lifetime.

The acting is more than adequate. If I had one disappointment it would be with the make-up. The depiction of Pedro at the end was way too hale. We've all seen "Silverlake Life: The View From Here," right? And though, Pedro didn't experience wasting syndrome, he certainly must have looked haggard and worn at the end. To keep that from his bio-pic is to deny the reality of his death in the very apex of expressing it's tragedy.

Still, a real weeper. Kleenex required.

Pedro with his family near the end of his life.