Matthew McConaughey stars in Dallas Buyers Club as
real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, whose free-wheeling life was overturned in
1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. These were
the early days of the AIDS epidemic, and the U.S. was divided over how to combat
the virus. Ron, now shunned and ostracized by many of his old friends, and
bereft of government-approved effective medicines, decided to take matters in
his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by
means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, the entrepreneurial
Woodroof joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts - who he
once would have shunned - and established a hugely successful buyers club.
Their shared struggle for dignity and acceptance is a uniquely American story of
the transformative power of resilience.This is easily Matthew
McConaughey's best role in his career. He was so physically and mentally into
this role and it showed. It was weird going back to the start of AIDS and how
ignorant all the thinking was and seeing his character deal with it. Then it
was even better to watch this person adjust to the cards he had been dealt and
to completely change his ways and accept people that he otherwise would have had
nothing to do with. It was also amazing how dedicated he was to saving himself
and others around him and wouldn't accept any government red tape answers of
no.
I would absolutely recommend that people check this movie out. It
is a great story with awesome acting. You really get hooked by it all and
rooting for him and him bypassing the system to help others.
