I just saw the movie, it is not really clear in the movie about who infected who in the movie. It could be completely the other way around, based on the fact that the wife is the first one of the trio to have the symptoms(swollen glands etc, 5 years before the husband even gets daignosed with Hiv), she could be the one cheating on the husband and she is the one who gave it to the husband and the husband might have been the one, who gave it to the gay guy. Just based on the timelines mentioned in the film, I would tilt more towards the opinion that the wife gave it to the husband, and the gay guy could have gotten it from the straight guy or any of the guys he had encounters over the years, the more the number of partners, the more your chances of contracting the virus, I do how ever completely disagree with your moral of the story(Sweet revenge. you gave it to me, now you carry the burden yourself.)of course every one can make their own conclusions and draw their own morals of the story but I was really surprised to see many posts here that kinda of still projected this as a gay disease that a straight guy gets because he is unfaithful with a gay guy, though the whole point of the movie was to drive across the point that a straight male or female can get get it from an other straight female or male respectively as easiely as two gay guys infecting each other, lets face the facts guys, any one leading an active sexual life is at risk, and remember u can practice safer sex, not safe sex, so if u r active sexually, do get tested on a regular basis, so that if u r infected, u can find out and start taking the medications, i beleive they work pretty good nowadays and can keep u healthy for a long long time.
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gaoranger74
18 years ago
You are correct it was never made clear who infected who, and it was done for a reason. Depending on point of view depends on how got infected first and passed it on.
This was done intentionally to make the viewer think.
And as you mentioned, about the wife. Given the level most viruses progress (and asking my father who is a Doctor) I seriously think she was the one who who had it first and passed it on.
In the play they kinda hint that she did have it first gave it to her husband, but the husband being to kilt ridden for cheating on her with a man that he blames the man he slept with.
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urbanflyer
17 years ago
> "It could be completely the other way around, based on the fact that the wife is the first one of the trio to have the symptoms(swollen glands etc, 5 years before the husband even gets daignosed with Hiv),..."
She wasn't showing symptoms 5 years before the husband. She had only recently started showing symptoms, went to the doctor and found out "24 days" ago (the title of the movie) that she was HIV+. She died in a car crash that day and that's when the husband found out that he is (most likely) HIV+ himself. The "5 years ago" thing only has to do with when the 2 guys had sex. As far as the symptoms go, people can show signs at different times. It's not like signs show up automatically after X amount of time.
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