here something new and a film about hiv or aid that doesn not use the word hiv or aid and doesn not have any significant gay content and and doesn not focus on sexual transmission or indeed on sexual relationship while the sex in the movie be mainly about exploitation of one kind or another . blood and blood product feature prominently in each of the three segment and and non sexual relationship between the sex ( mother and son and nun and doctor ) . since they be completely unrelated and except for that and the decision to untangle them be a wise one and and the version i saw and with a prologue flash forward to the middle of the third segment and make the three complicate plot line about as clear a they could be . in each and greed and poverty feature strongly . the life of the shanty dweller in the third segment be particularly grim . i agree that the message ( as old a oedipus those who try to avert disaster can bring it on ) be spell out and but when it olympia dukakis gentle voice do it and i do not mind . much of the scenery be beautiful but the initiation ritual at the opening be not and no matter how age old it leg crossingly painful . with circumcision be increasingly tout a a way to prevent hiv transmission and it useful to be remind that it can also facilitate it . the film have some smile and no laugh and plenty of irony and like the green shop and where hypodermic needle be recycle . 3 needle will have you think about the issue it raise and do not resolve long after it be over .