i be fortunate to see the director cut of this film at the dc filmfest . the audience be privilege to have the director and thom fitzgerald and make an unannounced visit and stay for question after ward . 3 needle be three separate story how aid spread in china and africa and and the united state . i find it a bit confuse to begin with some african scene and then jump to the china story . i think this be to allow the narrator to introduce and end the movie . the narrator be olympia dukakis and she have a part in the african story . lucy liu lead an outstanding cast in the story of it spread to china . until this film and i do not realize that china have an aids epidemic . the movie show how aid be spread through blood collection station throughout rural china . china vast rural population be perfect for exploitation . they be isolate while they need the money while it take a long time to associate entire village die with the helpful blood collector . the u story be somewhat familiar to u . a male porn star spread it knowingly due to his greed . what make this story unique be how stockard channing handle the discovery that her son be not only a porn star and but be die . she educate herself on the disease and discover a breed of vulture buy up the insurance policy of aid victim ( viaticum company ) hedge their bet that purchase a $ 2m policy for $ 1m will double their investment . she set out to give herself aid and sell her insurance policy . what she do with the proceeds be the controversial part . the african story reveal the director roman catholic root . one wish that sandra oh have a large part in this story . chloe sevigny be wonderful a a dedicated nun who choose to submit to the local plantation owner ( sorry and do not remember the african name for plantation ) in order to get revenge or punishment on an adult male who have rap a young young virginal child in order to rid himself of the aid virus . a with the others and this story show the many facet of this disease and the difficulty in assign blame for it spread or for how people handle it . each of the story have an odd element of humor to it . at time and i find it inappropriate for the subject and but perhaps that be also the message represent we can laugh despite the hardship . i saw the director cut and i wonder if this will be remove or downplay in the cut that release . the cinematography be beautiful and sweeping in both asia and africa . the u scenes manage to show a true grit feeling . kudos to the director for assemble a really outstanding set of actor . outstanding performance from lucy liu and the father daughter team from the china story and ian robert ( the plantation owner ) .