Movie Critique
Submitted to
Dr. Ashley Newell
Submitted by
Anuradha Adhikari
Submitted on
October 19, 2015
Philadelphia is a high-profile Hollywood movie which took AIDS plague seriously and was able to create a wave. The dread-disease drama seems difficult to deal within a company and the disease tends to scare even white collars. Basically the movie describes the downfall of an outstanding corporate lawyer because of his disease. (Demme, 1993)
Andy Beckett, a senior associate at a renowned law firm in Philadelphia was fired from his job. The law firm claims that he was fired because he no longer was a good lawyer but he suspects that he was fired because of his illness. Andy tried to hide his illness as well as him being …show more content…
In the second meeting at the library Joe could see how Andy was discriminated. He was uncomfortable and even the other librarian were uncomfortable to be with an ill person around them. Joe when realizes this discrimination stands up for him. Joe used his morality and accepted the case. (Demme, 1993)
The subjects in the court rooms were not valid as they focused that Andy was fired because of his unhealthy work performance and they did not knew about his illness. Andy kept his illness secret due to which made the law firm easy to hide the actual reason for firing. Andy was fired because of his illness but the subjects of the law firm were focused on his decreased work performance. (Demme, 1993)
AIDS was considered deadly disease previously. People then were afraid even to make contact with HIV infected persons. Now the scenario is different, people have started to know that it is not a contaminated disease and the infected persons can perform their daily activities normally. It is even illegal to discriminate among people just because they are infected with some virus and/or they have a different life style. Even back in my country, Nepal people have become aware of the fact that every individual are equal regardless of any infection, caste, race, gender and so on and have started to treat them normally. (Boatright,
Submitted to
Dr. Ashley Newell
Submitted by
Anuradha Adhikari
Submitted on
October 19, 2015
Philadelphia is a high-profile Hollywood movie which took AIDS plague seriously and was able to create a wave. The dread-disease drama seems difficult to deal within a company and the disease tends to scare even white collars. Basically the movie describes the downfall of an outstanding corporate lawyer because of his disease. (Demme, 1993)
Andy Beckett, a senior associate at a renowned law firm in Philadelphia was fired from his job. The law firm claims that he was fired because he no longer was a good lawyer but he suspects that he was fired because of his illness. Andy tried to hide his illness as well as him being …show more content…
In the second meeting at the library Joe could see how Andy was discriminated. He was uncomfortable and even the other librarian were uncomfortable to be with an ill person around them. Joe when realizes this discrimination stands up for him. Joe used his morality and accepted the case. (Demme, 1993)
The subjects in the court rooms were not valid as they focused that Andy was fired because of his unhealthy work performance and they did not knew about his illness. Andy kept his illness secret due to which made the law firm easy to hide the actual reason for firing. Andy was fired because of his illness but the subjects of the law firm were focused on his decreased work performance. (Demme, 1993)
AIDS was considered deadly disease previously. People then were afraid even to make contact with HIV infected persons. Now the scenario is different, people have started to know that it is not a contaminated disease and the infected persons can perform their daily activities normally. It is even illegal to discriminate among people just because they are infected with some virus and/or they have a different life style. Even back in my country, Nepal people have become aware of the fact that every individual are equal regardless of any infection, caste, race, gender and so on and have started to treat them normally. (Boatright,