Movie Review on Dallas Buyer Club

The main person in Dallas Buyer Club movie is Ron woodroof who is was the promiscuous Dallas electrician and rodeo cowboy. Ron Woodroof is an energetic person in the movie who got AIDS. He was diagnosed with HIV in July 1985 as well as given only 30 days to live. When he was diagnosed with this disease, he initially refused to accept the diagnosis while he remembers then he has spent time and unprotected sex with a woman who was heavy intravenous drug taker from the many years. He is the energetic personality and he consecutively showing disagreement with the diagnostics reports as well as refuses to accept the death sentence.

Furthermore, he was also disliked and hated by his family and friends after confirming his disease who mistakenly assumed that AIDS was contracted by him form homosexual relations. His troubles were limited at this stage but he was fired from his job and then he also ejected from his house. Dr. Eve Saks tends him at the hospital who did tell him that they are trying to test a medicine Zidovudine (AZT). It the drug that can be effective for AIDS patients’ prolong life. She also told him that it is the only drug which has been approved by the administration of food and drug for testing purposes on human. He is also informed that the drug is received by half of the patients in the clinical trials but other half the patient’s placebo such as the fake treatment but it is the only way to identify the workability of the drug.

The hospital work is bribed by woodroof to provide him the drug. When he started to take this drug the realized that his health is not suitable as well as his body cannot afford this drug because of the heavy use of cocaine. Further in the movie, when he comes back to the hospital, he meets with a drug-addicted person name Rayon who is the trans woman carrying also HIV positive. In the hospital when he realizes that his health is worse than before, he drives his car to take more AZT to Mexican hospital. Dr. Vass runs this facility who had revoked his American medical license because characteristics of his work with the patients of AIDS had broken the rules and regulations of the United States. Here Dr. Vass has told Woodroof that the drug AZT is dangerous and poisonous that damages the immune system of the body as well as kill every cell that will become in contact with this drug. Then he prescribed the drugs cocktail and DDC nutrition supplements including protein peptide T to woodroof but they are not approved by the government of the United States and FDA (Annas, 1989). He started to intake these drugs and realized after three months that his health is not improved.

An idea came in his mind that he can generate by importing from different places as well as selling these drugs to HIV patients. The idea was good. He was able to get those drugs from another side of the border by changing his looks like a priest as well as by swearing that these drugs are for his personal use since the drugs alone were not illegal at that time. At that time, Dr. Saks also started to notice that AZT has its affective side effects in humans but her supervisor told her that this drug cannot be discontinued.

Moreover, woodroof has started to sell these drugs at the gay nightclubs as well as on the streets to people in the next year. He again comes back in the contact with rayon and found he unwillingly sets his business because she can easily generate many customers of his drugs. Furthermore, their partnership established in Dallas Buyers Club which was charging almost 400 dollars for the membership as well as the idea becomes more popular. To give respect as a friend to rayon, he gradually starts. Woodroof had later heart attack that was caused by a recent dose of interferon acquiring, Sevard learns of the club as well as any replacement of this drug. He was angry because of creating an interruption in the medical trial and woodroof was arrested by. Dr. Saks also agrees with him that the AIDS medicines buyers’ clubs have some benefits that they are beneficial to maintain the health of patients but Saks felt powerless to change anything (Ford, 2017).

Furthermore, the FDA has also gotten the warrant to raid the buyers club. In the year of 1987, the FDA has also changed the regulations to make any unapproved drug illegal. Woodroof traveled to Mexico and get more peptide T. when woodroof came back then he found that rayon has died after taking to hospital. Dr. Saks was also upset because of her death as well as she was also asked to resign when the hospital staff did find she had also links with those patients connected with the buyers club as well as they learned about AZT medical trials that they are not effective as proven by France. Woodroof shows sympathy to transgenders, lesbians as well as gays as time passes and then the generation of money became less concerned and he only focuses to provide them drugs only for health purposes (Taylor, 2015). In 1987, due to difficulty to acquire Peptide T, he filed a lawsuit against the FDA. He died in 1992 due to AIDs.

Argument of Dallas Buyers Club

            The story of the movie was heart touching as well as it was the real story. The problem whole story is that the government is more influential in the treatment of the patient having aided and FDA has approved AZT drug which is very dangerous for the human. No, doubt the drug was also dangerous for human and their immune system but when woodroof has found as well as doctors have also found this risk, they must have to challenge and filed the lawsuit against FDA.

            Furthermore, they also have to convince the government to establish a rehab center where the Peptide T will be dozen to the patients for treatment. No doubt, woodroof has taken the step to sell the drugs but it was illegal. Many other people (non-AIDS) people may also take those drugs without any prescription because he was not a doctor. The risk was that it can also make other people addict to Peptide T. I agree the regulations of FDA were against AIDS patients but the doctors can raise their voice in the form of unity to stop consumptions of ATZ.

References of Dallas Buyers Club

Annas, G. J. (1989). Faith (Healing), hope and charity at the FDA: the politics of AIDS drug trials. politics of AIDS, 771.

Ford, A. (2017). The Dallas Buyers Club: who's buying it? Transgender Studies Quarterly, 135-140.

Taylor, J. (2015). The stimulants of Prohibition: Illegality and new synthetic drugs. Territory, Politics, Governance, 407-427.