Fun, Interesting, and engaging.
If I had not watched 12 years a slave, which is about a slave that was enslaved for 12 years and then released, I would have called this the best movie of the year. It is so gritty, compelling, and controversial. It is everything a best picture nominee should be.
First of all, I like to give a rundown of the film, Dallas Electrician and cowboy (but he never rides a horse in the film), Ron Woodroof (pronounced Woodruff, not Wood roof, I'm surprised at the pronunciation too), is diagnosed with AIDs by Dr. Servard and given 30 days to live. Instead of going down without a fight, he begs a hospital worker to get him some AZT, an approved drug, to prolong the life of AIDS patients. He soon finds that the drug degenerates his health and begins taking ddc and Peptide T to prolong his life. With a seductive, unbecoming, and perky friend in Rayon (played by Jared Leto), he sells the new drugs he prescribed to people in what is known as a Dallas Buyers Club. The club is successful. However, Ron Woodroof has a heart attack caused by a dose of interferon. When his doctor Servard hears of this dosage he is mad.
Later on in the film, Woodroof and Rayon's Buyers Club gets invaded, but does not get stopped because the drugs they're selling are legal. In 1987, two years after this film begins, the FDA makes an unapproved drug illegal, and in order to save the club when it runs out of money, Rayon sells her life insurance policy to raise money. After going to Mexico to get more Peptide T, he learns that Rayon has died after going to the hospital. The doctor that regular attends Woodroof gets fired from her job. Overtime, Woodroof shows compassion to the LGBT community who are members of his club. In 1987, he files a lawsuit to the FDA, seeking the legal right of Peptide T. Later the FDA allows Woodroof to take the Peptide T and he uses it to help him, but he dies of AIDS five years later.
This is such a great film. I'll start with the pros: great acting (McConaughey is totally believe as foul-mouthed, uncaring Woodroof, Leto is brilliant as a transvestite), then the drama (all the times Woodroof passes out, the FDA raid), and well-directed (a lot of action goes down in it's relatively short time. The flaws in the movie are it is kinda long, the dallas buyer's club is not featured much in the film, the film is mostly not like they describe it on wikipedia, and not enough Jared Leto's character. However, all in all, a great film, McConaughey's best performance probably, and mostly well-done.Read full review
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