House of Numbers Reviewed by the Media

The Tennessean has reviewed Brent Leung’s new movie, House of Numbers:

Does HIV even exist? That’s debatable.
If it exists, does it cause AIDS? That’s debatable.
Is there a definitive way to diagnose AIDS? That’s debatable.
Can you test positive in one country, and negative in another? Yes.

In a train station in Johannesburg, South Africa, Leung takes his own rapid-screening HIV test. The result — well, you’ll have to find out. But can he believe it?

But one of the most poignant, revealing moments of House of Numbers is Leung’s interview with a South African woman.

“A lot of people here is very sick and is very dying,” she said.

“What kind of sickness do you see around here?” Leung asks. “It’s HIV/AIDS,” she explains.

“What is AIDS?” Leung asks.

With frustration, and a shrug of the shoulders, she exclaims, “We don’t know. We don’t know!”

House of Numbers debuts next week at the Nashville Film Festival. I will be one of several panelists to discuss the movie on April 23rd. No one from the CDC, NIH, or any other so-called AIDS expert has accepted our invitation to participate in the discussion.