Dallas Buyers Club
reveiw by
ANIZ FILMVALA
*****
Director Jean-Marc
Vallée “Dallas Buyers Club” is a incredible cinematic vision of a pain and
survival during medical predicament one goes and if it’s AIDS all hell break lose,
to make a film with boldness and its tactful hum our is remarkable .
A true story of a cowboy Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey)diagnosed
with AIDS, around sometime in 1985 in a U.S city Dallas.The challenge to live
life for just coming 30 days makes him more vigilant towards the treatment ,he
discovers a drug called AZT an antiviral that is a remedy to prolong the life
of a AIDS patients but is banned by the FDA in U.S. A corrupt hospital employee
delivers him the stock of AZT time to time; in due course his health worsens
and is hospitalized where he shares the room with a transgender Rayon (Jared
Leto) a HIV positive as Ron being a homophobic dislikes the closeness of Rayon.
Meanwhile again as he needs more dose of the AZT medicine he
goes in a Mexican hospital where he gets treated by Dr. Vass (Griffin Dunne)
who has a illegal medical centre to treat HIV patient. He puts him on a
alternative medicine ddC and the protein peptide T, which are again not
approved in the US. In a period of time he
finds his health is improving and gets a thought of how he can earn big bucks
by selling the Drugs in Dallas to Aids patient. He starts to smuggle the
illegal Drugs from the border, gets in contact with Rayon, with whom he unwillingly
partners as she can bring more clients. And they together found the
"Dallas Buyers Club".
As they flourish the legal have a eye on them and Richard
Barkley (Michael O'Neill) of the FDA confiscates the ddC and threatens to
arrest Ron. Back in1987 he files a lawsuit against the FDA seeking a legal
right to take the banned Drugs but is denied. Surviving for seven years later he
dies in 1992 leaving hope for the rest as the AZT is made legal to use in a
proportion for the treatment of HIV positive patient saving millions of life.
McConaughey as Ron Woodroof deserves a standing ovation for
his outstanding performance and surely will add him to the list of good actors.
Jared Leto as Rayon has defined the look and has shown the anguish of a
transgender on screen which will leave you in a depressive and an emotional turmoil.
The film is a heroic answer to the dreadful process of
living when one goes through a life threatening diseases and the race to survive.
It will give you inspiration to live happily, a dose which everybody needs.
CAST.
Matthew McConaughey
as Ron Woodroof
Jennifer Garner as
Dr. Eve Saks
Jared Leto as
Rayon/Raymond
Steve Zahn as Tucker
Dallas Roberts as
David Wayne
Michael O'Neill as
Richard Barkley
Denis O'Hare as Dr.
Sevard
Griffin Dunne as Dr.
Vass
John Tabler as Rick
Ferris
Jane McNeill as
Francine Suskind
James DuMont as
Rayon's father
Donna Duplantier as
Nurse Frazin
