Analysis Of The Film 'Dallas Buyers Club'

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In times of need people will do anything to survive. This rings true, especially, in the AIDS epidemic, also known as, the “gay plague.” In this epidemic people out stretched their hands to the government for aid, yet they were denied. This led them to do the only thing they could do, which was, to find aid from someone else. This aid was not always legal, but in times of tribulations, it is usually anything that will help, goes. The movie, “Dallas Buyers Club” directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, depicts one of the best examples of this fact. In this movie, the people who were dying of the HIV virus would go to anywhere they could to get help. Then when help was scarce, they turned to the Dallas Buyers Club to get drugs smuggled in from outside areas. When I comparted, however, the movie of the Dallas Buyers Club to three articles about the real Dallas Buyer Club, what I found surprised me. These things were who the real Rayon and Ron Woodroof were, and how an article lied about the movie. The first thing that surprised me when I compared the move to Through their words it would seem as if they hated each other but through their actions it showed that they cared. When Ron saw Rayon struggling on the floor trying to salvage the courage to inject himself with the needle, Ron did the friendly thing to do and helped him. Ron also expressed concern for Rayon when he asked him who would inject the needle in Ron’s absence. When I saw how complex their relationship was I originally had the thought that it had to have been real. However, when I did my research the article, “How Accurate is Dallas Buyers Clubs?” by Aisha Harris, gave me a different story. In the accurate depiction of Ron Woodroof, he actually did not even have a friend or anyone even remotely close to Rayon. In fact, as discussed earlier, Rayon was created for the sole purpose of character development. In the article it

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