Even though some things are not realistic, Rent knocked it out of the park IMO! Rent is one of the best musicals\movies ever made, however there were two things that kind of irked me. For one when the crossdresser chick Angel met her demise sadly enough thanks to AIDS, but Mimi also died from an overdose in the end & is somehow "revived" WTF?
Sorry but in reality more drugheads die than LGBTQ folks, I've lost several drughead friends, but never any of my LGBTQ people.
This movie affected me personally because I've got several family members that are drugheads. My eldest sister has an $800.00 a day cocaine habit, not to mention my eldest daughter loves synthetics & my former brother in law died from an overdose just this past spring.
I would like to have seen the movie focus more on solutions than just talking about drug use. In reality Mimi would not have revived, she would be dead from overdose & AIDS would not have taken Angel out so easily either.
There are many more treatment options for AIDS now in the 2000's than ever before, for drug overdose Narcan is pretty much the only top lifesaver. But it still won't help people on Fentanyl, that stuff is just lethal, never touch any drugs, but especially Fentanyl!!!
Other than that the whole cast put on an amazing show for all, if you see the movie you should like it unless you're just a plain boring person. I'm sad I have not seen the Broadway production of this show yet.