Dallas Buyers Club
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 8:19 am
Matthew McConaughey continues to go from strength to strength in this searing indictment of the FDA's policies/activities in respect of allowing access of 1980's[?] HIV sufferers to the life preserving drugs they needed in order to survive. McConaughey's obnoxious bigoted rodeo hustler goes through a series of life changing transformations as a result discovering that he too is carrying the virus dubbed 'the gay disease' and in the process the story of aids victims 'buyers clubs' that proliferated at the time is told.
The film, which featured in the 'Best Films' catagory in this years Oscars winning NcConaughey the 'Best Male Lead' is a fine piece of crafting. The testosterone fueled lifestyle of the rodeo riding circuit, with it's free access to copious quantities of drugs, booze and groupie women is placed under a harsh spotlight and rapidly begins to show it's very ugly underbelly. The acceptable prejudice and bigotry of the day is thrown into sharp relief by the entering into a new, softer world, where the qualities of understanding and non-judgementalism [ie the states we strive toward today in our 'new' world] begin to show through. The era is well depicted vis a vis the cinamatography and the state's role [hand in glove with 'big pharma' and the usual old 'profit motive'] in the early fiasco of AID's therapy is mercilessly exposed.
All in all a fine piece of work and one that, while it isn't massively 'my kind of film', will stay with me for a long time to come.
The film, which featured in the 'Best Films' catagory in this years Oscars winning NcConaughey the 'Best Male Lead' is a fine piece of crafting. The testosterone fueled lifestyle of the rodeo riding circuit, with it's free access to copious quantities of drugs, booze and groupie women is placed under a harsh spotlight and rapidly begins to show it's very ugly underbelly. The acceptable prejudice and bigotry of the day is thrown into sharp relief by the entering into a new, softer world, where the qualities of understanding and non-judgementalism [ie the states we strive toward today in our 'new' world] begin to show through. The era is well depicted vis a vis the cinamatography and the state's role [hand in glove with 'big pharma' and the usual old 'profit motive'] in the early fiasco of AID's therapy is mercilessly exposed.
All in all a fine piece of work and one that, while it isn't massively 'my kind of film', will stay with me for a long time to come.