Dallas Buyers Club review
As I first realised that I would see a film with two Academy awards I set my expectations a little high. The theme was promising: a man finds out that he has only days left because he is HIV positive and has developed AIDS. At first there are some really harsh scenes giving an insight in the life of a lonely cowboy living in the ‘80s. Sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll we could say, but behind the filthy scenes it can be felt that he is disconnected from the world and is in a deep sorrow. There is something in the air as he faces strange symptoms. We already know what his diagnosis is. The acting from Matthew McConaughey is fantastic and brilliant at this point (and it remains poignant) as he depicts the fight against the fact that his character (Ron Woodroof: what a promising name!) has only a few days left according to the doctors. At that time (1980’s) the medical industry and the FDA actually did hamper such desperate fights against AIDS insisting on the regular way of the legali...