i just saw this film at the calgary film festival and i love it . i love the work of thom fitzgerald ( hang garden ) . aid be well know a a global epidemic and but it be not get the medium attention that it once do in the 80 and 90 . it be leave to filmmaker to put a human face to the daily toll cause by this epidemic . 3 needle put a very human face on the fear and insecurity that cause people to risk their humanity and morality and their life and to get past the lie that they have to deal with . this film show very different case and reaction by people from the first world and third world and face an unjust world and try to do their best to get by . i be somewhat in awe of how gentle the film be and give the death and despair and horrible act that be occur all around the central character . i love the balance of life affirmation there be 2 birth parallel 2 death . there be charitable act and kindness from unexpected place . there be clear love for family and friend . stockard channing be brilliant in this role and cloe sevigny and shawn ashmore be very good and lucy liu character be so real that you feel like youre really in remote part of china with her and that most people in her place would do the same thing . please go see this film . you will be glad you do and and perhaps you will come away with an understanding of the complexity of the aid epidemic and why exist support method be fail to stem the tide of this situation .