The “exchange” of an investment strategy that benefited from AIDS deaths is examined

Beyond my gratitude to the director, a waiter died on “the exit exchange”, which is a vital and distinctive movie for a terrible time, it also made me angry – as there was an era in the history of our nation knew fewer people and less than people, and this means that the saying AIDS The crisis, and how it affected gay men, their chosen families, and the economy of death. Early in the eighties in the eighties, many young homosexuals and mediums lived more or less manually; If they are infected AIDS– Which was generally the death penalty until 1995 or so, when the protein enzyme inhibitors began to make a fundamental change in survival rates – the unstable economic conditions were already lifted, and so there was ruin from their bodies, and ruin from any infrastructure they could build during their very short lives.

But then a relatively new industry arose: fake settlements. A private company or investor will pay a percentage of the value of the life insurance policy for the person (and you will continue to pay the installments on it), in exchange for naming the beneficiary from the policy. In other words, if you are dying AIDS You have life insurance, you can get immediate money to cover your medical costs or finance your dreams. (“Viaticum” is Latin for “money for a long trip.” Some have been able to leave a little money for the people who stood with them all the time. For investors, however, death is equivalent to profit; the question was the time you live – and how much they should pay in installments – before they got their money.

Part of what makes the “exit exchange” very influencing is that it does not move away from pain. Deede Ngozi Chamblee, a sexually transformed sheikh, says Lagender, Inc. It is a group of championship for transit women, at the end of the documentary, “The only thing that connects us is the pain.” The central story in the film is related to Scott Page, a gay man who helped in broker Viaticum deals. The exit in the late 1970s was difficult for Scott, which he tried to shrink to persuade him that he was not gay. After some time in the army, a man named Greg, and soon discovered, met, AIDS. (It is nice to hear Scott talking about what he attracted to Greg; you can feel how Greg was alive for him, and he will always remain). Scott Al -Haila discovered that if Greg helped sell his life securing policy, Greg will be able to get some things he always yearned before his death, including a home and a golden retreat. Greg belongs to AIDS The support group, and other members, after its progress and sometimes with the help of Scott, started doing the same.

Then a waiter offers another layer for this story: his father, an elephant, one of these insurance policies. A waiter, who is in public, is affected by how gay men have supported his easy and happy childhood. However, of course, after a while, the bodies stopped accumulating as gay men AIDS It started to live, those who invested in the death were left with revenues that they could not dispensed. Nader is calmly of these two sides of the narration, but in the end, the film leaves us broken when thinking about how much it took, and the cost of that, emotionally and so on, only to survive.