Dallas Buyers Club Essay

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Dallas Buyers Club was considered a controversial movie. After the release of the film, many were against it but some were not. The movie was directed by a French-Canadian film director, Jean-Marc Vallée. Although the topic of this movie is not openly conveyed by many viewers due to its tendentious aspects to it, Dallas Buyers Club was recognized as one of the best films in 2013 with an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. In the movie, the character Ron Woodroof is an electrician and rodeo cowboy who lives an ordinary Texan lifestyle. After being diagnosed with HIV positive, Ron’s world was changed 360 degrees. At first, Ron was isolated by his friends and closed ones; HIV was a new virus that was born out of human mistakes and having to dealt with the stigma of it in the mid-1980s, Ron had no choice but to change the way he lives. …show more content…

Sevard, Ron lived for another seven years of struggling and finding a cure for his sickness before he rests in peace, like Ron once said “Let me give y'all a little news flash. There ain't nothin' out there can kill Ron Woodroof in 30 days”. The sheer fact of Ron wanting to live desperately has made this movie more interesting; in reality, not many people would go to the extent like what Ron did to live a better life. For a fact, what one sees in today’s social media posting about AIDS awareness are only the frontlines which consist a small number of people conducting it, beyond that is a whole new side of the story. In Dallas Buyers Club, Ron Woodroof spirit to thrive when facing overwhelming problems not only made him a “hero”, but also for the greater good of his

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