"Pedro: The Movie" premieres on MTV on April 1 at 8 p.m. ET. (3.24.09)
If only more peaple were as open minded...
THIS MOVIE TOUCHED MY HEART...GOD BLESS PEDRO
OMG I CRIED THOUGH OUT THE WHOLE MOVIE!!! IT IS A GOOD MOVIE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE TO WATCH. I WORK AT A HIGH SCHOOL, I WAS JUST TELLING THE PRINCIPAL THAT SHE SHOULD SHOW THE MOVIE TO ALL OUR ELECTIVES CLASS. ITS AN EYE OPENER FOR MANY TEENAGES THAT THINK IT WON’T HAPPEN TO THEM. I DVR THE MOVIE AND WATCH IT OVER AND OVER. IT'S PEOPLE LIKE PEDRO THAT MAKES ME GO GET TESTED (GYT). ALWAYS USE PROTECTION!!!!
SO I JUST FINISHED WATCHING PEDRO....I DIDNT WANT TO AT FIRST BECAUSE I KNEW IT WAS GOING TO HIT HOME... THE MOVIE WAS SO HARD TO WATCH I CRIED...AND RIGHT NOW I STILL CANT STOP. NOBODY KNOWS HOW HARD IT IS TO SEE THAT WHEN YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED IT FIRST HAND. SO AS I WATCH THE MOVIE THE ENTIRE ENDING REMINDED ME OF ME AND MY BROTHER. I WAS THE ONE HERE LIKE HIS SISTER WAS WITH HIM. TO RELIVE THAT MOMENT WAS WORST THAN LIVING IT THE FIRST TIME. AIDS IS SOMETHING THAT I WOULDNT WISH ON ANYONE...NOBODY SHOULD EVER HAVE TO GO THROUGH WHAT ME AND MY BROTHER AND MY FAMILY WENT THROUGH...IT HURTS. I WILL NEVER FORGET WHAT MY BROTHER TOLD ME...HE SAID "CLARISSA DONT EVER LET A GUY TELL YOU ITS OK TO NOT USE A CONDOM ITS PAINFUL TO GO THROUGH THIS..." IT WASNT ONLY PAINFUL FOR HIM BUT TO THIS DAY PAINFUL FOR HIS FAMILY AND HIS FRIENDS. TO SEE SOMEONE YOU LOVE SUFFER FOR ALL THOSE YEARS IS NOT SOMETHING YOU WOULD WANT TO SIT THERE AND WATCH...THE WORST PART ABOUT JUST SITTING THERE AND WATCHING IS SITTING THERE AND KNOWING THAT YOU CANT DO ANYTHING TO HELP GET RID OF IT. THE MORNING THAT MY BROTHER PASSED AWAY I WOKE AND WENT INTO HIS ROOM AND WATCHED HIM AND EVERY BREATH THAT HE TOOK AS I SAT THERE AND JUST THOUGHT TO MYSELF...THIS IS THE LAST TIME I WILL EVER GET TO SEE MY BROTHER AGAIN. IT HURT MY HEART TO SEE THAT MY BROTHER WAS HAVING TROUBLE BREATHING BUT THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE I COULD DO. THE DAY BEFORE HE COULDNT SPEAK VERY MUCH BUT IT FELT GOOD THAT HE REACHED OUT AND GRABBED MY HAND. ITS GREAT TO REMEMBER ALL THE GOOD TIMES THAT WE HAD AND ALL THE BROTHER SISTER FIGHTS WE HAD BUT THE ONLY THING I WANT RIGHT NOW IS TO HAVE HIM BACK FOR ALL THOSE KISSES AND HUGS WE SHARED....I MISS HIM SO MUCH! WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS MY ANGER MY FEAR MY HEARTACHE MY PAIN AND MY LOVE.... RIP ANGEL I LOVE YOU BABE AND YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN.... UNTIL THE DAY WE MEET AGAIN....
I CRIED THE WHOLE MOVIE I REMEMBER WATCHING HIM WHEN I WAS 15. HE IS THE REASON I GET TESTED EVERY YEAR. HE WAS TAKEN WAY TOO EARLY. I REMEMBER JUST BAWLING WHEN HIS DEATH HIT THE NEWS. HE WILL LIVE ON IN THE HEARTS OF EVERYONE HE HAS TOUCHED
The biggest spoiler of all... he dies at the end.
i remember him so well and i thank him for what he has done and open up the doors for others with hiv, working in the medical field it has been an eye opener because of him i like what i do and hope to keep my heart open for others such as he was....bless u pedro always
i was still young when the real world san fran came out but i was able to understand wat was going on a couples years before my mother as diagnosed with the virus so i know first hand how it was to be treated like an outsider. i am glad that i could grow up in a generation of such strong people like pedro
I was lucky enough to see Pedro's season of the Real World. At the time, aids was an epidemic that all of us were scared of. Pedro was a face for all of us to take with us of someone who had aids. I can honestly say I didn't know anyone personally who had died of or had aids. He was someone who was willing to put himself out there and show us who he was and give us someone to know with the disease. When I found out that he had passed, I balled. I didn't know him personally, but you felt like you did. I think that the world lost a great person that day and it is only fitting that MTV, the people that let him come into our lives and our homes, tell his story. He is missed daily not only by those that knew him, but by those of us who wanted to. Thanks MTV.
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