Gay Commercial: Aids Hilfe Wien

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Since someone recently said that it's still a sin to use condoms, I thought that this commercial was a good way to reply.

I like it since, even if really erotic (so be aware if you click), it has also an esthetic beauty, the beauty of the human body. I believe that beauty is always a good way to bring on a message.

Commercial Closet Association

Company: Aids Hilfe Wien
Brand: AIDS/HIV Awareness
Ad Title: Aids Hilfe
Business Category: Public Service Announcements
Media Outlets: Television
Country: Austria
Region: Europe
Agency: unknown
Year: 2006
Target: Gays & Mainstream

Comments

[shadownyc.livejournal.com]

That was so powerful! Thank you for sharing it.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

You are welcome, and yes, it's powerful and I like how the soundtrack mounts to suddenly stop and let the silence bring the message. Elisa

[smuffster.livejournal.com]

What a fantastic commercial.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

Very well thought, high impact. Elisa

[kassa-rvws.livejournal.com]

That was incredibly well done from the graphics to the music and the theme running through it. I don't know how you find these commercials but they're really great.

Thank you for sharing.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

You are welcome Kassa. I spent more or less a night a week to choose them. Nice way to spend time ;-) Elisa

[ebony-silvers.livejournal.com]

Extremely interesting! And very well made.

I don't know if you've noticed but I make a point to have my characters practice safe sex or if not, a mention of the danger appears. I've lost too many friends to AIDS.

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

I'm lucky, I knew only one person who contracted AIDS, and unfortunately he chose the fastest way, he committed suicide. It was in a time when AIDS was not only an illness but also a stigma. I was very young and that event let me very moved. Elisa

[mightymaeve.livejournal.com]

Oh my, Elisa, that was probably the best commercial I have ever seen; It was evocative, powerfully thought-provoking and absolutely, amazingly sensual.

"Body and soul, soul and body. We, in our madness, have separated the two, and invented a realism that is vulgar, an ideality that is void."

"Soul and body, body and soul. There was animalism in the soul and the body had it's moments of spirituality."

And the important message that was told in these few seconds was conveyed in a way that was not condescending or preachy at all. Genius!

[elisa-rolle.livejournal.com]

And you comment is beautiful as the ad. Thank you, Elisa