initiated by Raghu on September 07, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0426606/)
„Transit" deals with Aids, a still cureless low immunity disease, but an audience that doesn't know this beforehand, won't discover this fact until the very last ten minutes. This is a very effective dramaturgic dodge, because it is also the way that Aids spreads. You might not notice it, you might be careless, but you still can be infected. At least in the rich countries, many people get more
„Transit" deals with Aids, a still cureless low immunity disease, but an audience that doesn't know this beforehand, won't discover this fact until the very last ten minutes. This is a very effective dramaturgic dodge, because it is also the way that Aids spreads. You might not notice it, you might be careless, but you still can be infected. At least in the rich countries, many people get infected because they think it won't happen to them anyway. I think, it was also a good decision from director Niall MacCormick and his co-writer Murilo Pasta not to focus on the so-called high risk groups like gays or drug users, because the important message is that everybody can get infected. And that is also what "Transit" is eventually, a message movie. From an artistic point of view I would say not everything is felicitous. Some of the story lines are just totally implausible and also the acting isn't top-notch. And sadly, too many filmmakers fall for the trick thinking, that this "Babel"-like structure adds any meaning to their work.
