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Yesterday (2004)

 Yesterday (2004)
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Yesterday (2004)
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Yesterday is a 2004 film from South Africa directed by Darrell Roodt.The movie isn't named for the day before today, and it isn't named after a Beatles song. Nope, Yesterday is a person, a Zulu wife and mother living in the Zululand region of South Africa. She lives in a humble small house in a small village with her little daughter, Beauty. She isn't quite a single mother, but she might as well be, as her husband John works in a mine in Johannesburg and only comes home on rare occasions.Yesterday develops a cough that she can't shake as well as feelings of weakness. Twice she makes the long, long walk to the nearest clinic, only to be turned away when the office closes before she can be seen. When she collapses in her doorway, her best friend the local schoolteacher arranges for her to be driven to the clinic. Yesterday gets pretty much the worst news possible: she has HIV, which has developed into full-blown AIDS. Faced with disaster, Yesterday sets herself only one goal: to live at least a year, which will be long enough to see her daughter go to school for the first time.This was a South African film that was produced by HBO and ran on HBO in the United States, and thus is a rare example of a work that was nominated for both an Oscar and an Emmy award.
 Yesterday (2004)
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 Yesterday (2004) / int_19da8a03
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Incurable Cough of Death
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Incurable Cough of Death: If the opening scene where Yesterday walks cross-country for miles and miles to see a doctor wasn't enough of a hint, in the second scene, she is revealed to have a persistent hacking cough. It isn't hard to figure out what the doctor's visit is going to reveal.
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 Yesterday (2004) / int_36a2827b
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Tragic AIDS Story
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Tragic AIDS Story: A young mother gets AIDS from her faithless husband.
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Staggered Zoom
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Staggered Zoom: A staggered zoom out from Yesterday and the doctor at the clinic when Yesterday finds out the result of her blood test.
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 Yesterday (2004) / int_53c9fc92
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Flashback
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Flashback: After John splits Yesterday's lip, there is a depressing series of quick flashbacks to happier times in their marriage.
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Off-into-the-Distance Ending
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Off-into-the-Distance Ending: The last shot has the camera pulling away as Yesterday, who has been showing more obvious signs of AIDS, walks back home after seeing Beauty off for her first day of school.
 Yesterday (2004) / int_aef5c283
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Gossipy Hens
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Gossipy Hens: The town water pump is where all the women like to hang out and gossip. Yesterday recommends it to the schoolteacher, but it becomes less benign when the women start gossiping about her.
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No Name Given
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No Name Given: Yesterday's best friend the schoolteacher is never named.
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Country Mouse
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Country Mouse: It isn't dwelt on at length, but Yesterday is clearly ill at ease when she has to go to Johannesburg to give John the bad news. She looks nervous, and there are several camera shots of the skyscrapers towering far above her.
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 Yesterday (2004)
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 Yesterday (2004) / int_e02630c1
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Witch Doctor
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Witch Doctor: The sangoma, a sort of shamaness that Yesterday visits after twice failing to get into the clinic. She fails to diagnose Yesterday's HIV, but she does advise Yesterday to let her anger out.
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Never Learned to Read
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Never Learned to Read: Yesterday is embarrassed when she has to admit she can't read a form at the doctor's office. This seems to be at least part of the reason she is determined to live until Beauty's first day of school.
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Would Hit a Girl
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Would Hit a Girl: John reacts to Yesterday's news by freaking out and beating her up. She goes back home with a split lip. Later—after his own AIDS manifests—he is repentant.
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Off-into-the-Distance Ending / int_e6488c0a
 Yesterday (2004)
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Staggered Zoom / int_e6488c0a