Mad Professah was invited by a friend (who happens to be the Executive Director of the Center for Health Justice) to see an invitation-only screening of the film ¡Salud! at the Billy Wilder Theater of the Armand Hammer Museum on Monday May 14th at 7pm in Westwood.The film is an amazingly incisive meditation on the nature of health care around the world. It looks specifically at the case of four particular countries in the global South: Cuba, Honduras, The Gambia and Venezuela. Although it sounds like it might be awfully tendentious and possibly mawkish: a nearly 2-hour documentary on the state of international health care primarily in Spanish, the actuality is an emotionally powerful, thought-provoking experience that lingers with you long after the final talking head has delivered the last rhetorical question: "How long will we treat health care as a commodity instead of as a right?"
GRADE: A+.