To Live Is Better Than To Die (2003)
Overview
In the 1990s HIV/AIDS came to Wenlou through a blood purchasing program. To supplement their income many poor villagers sold their blood and 60% of those who sold blood contracted HIV/AIDS from unsanitary equipment. Many have died from the disease. In his documentary film, To Live is Better than to Die, Wiejun Chen tells of the impact AIDS has had in parts of rural China by showing how it has affected the Ma family. It is spring when the film takes up the family’s story.
Cast
Recommendations
The Class of ‘92
Naqoyqatsi
Rich Hill
Fuck
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me
In the Realms of the Unreal
Heart of a Dog
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button
A Decade Under the Influence
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story
Downloaded
Public Speaking
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
A Plastic Ocean
Sidney
Casting By
Listen to Me Marlon
More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead
My Mom Jayne