The intensity of the horror is compounded by the fact that no one is coming to help. It’s like they are battling Predator with no weapons, but their voices. In many ways, The Normal Heart is a horror story-bodies fall at a vicious clip, felled by an invisible assailant on garbage-strewn streets. Tommy collects the Rolodex cards of his friends who have died of the virus, and they stack up quickly, multiplying over the course of the film as a visual reminder of the virus’ body count. “We’re losing an entire generation, young men at their beginning, just gone,” said Tommy Boatwright (Jim Parsons), delivering a eulogy at yet another memorial service. He helps found the Gay Men’s Health Crisis group, begging for change on the streets to fund research, all in between memorial services. When he realizes that no one will help them, he fights harder, confounded by the Kafkaesque inadequacy of the government, as absent as the entire population in 28 Days Later. Weeks soon puts his big mouth to work, hoping to bully New York City, the White House, anyone, into helping stop the spread of the still-unnamed disease that is laying waste to his community. “Where’s this big mouth I hear you’ve got?” she asks him. Brookner suspects the “cancer” is sexually transmitted and she wants Weeks to help spread the word in the gay community.

When Weeks’ friend (played by Looking star Jonathan Groff) collapses, frothing at the mouth, seizing and dying, the fire catches.ĭr. Emma Brookner (a poorly cast Julia Roberts), a doctor paralyzed by polio-another virus that was defeated by science-who lights a fire under Ned’s feet.

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The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer