Davis Mohn
Dallas Buyers Club Discussion
Aspect of the movie
The 2013 American biographical drama film Dallas Buyers Club was written by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack and was helmed by Jean-Marc Vallée. The movie is about Ron Woodroof, an AIDS patient who was diagnosed in the middle of the 1980s, a time when research on HIV/AIDS medicines was lacking and the illness was severely stigmatized. He established the "Dallas Buyers Club" and, in defiance of the Food and Drug Administration, smuggled unapproved pharmaceutical medications into Texas to treat his symptoms and distribute them to other AIDS patients as part of the experimental AIDS treatment movement. This film represents entrepreneurship by Ron Woodruff creating his medicine to help patients with HIV/AIDS and other illnesses.
How the movie is interesting
Dallas Buyers Club and its politically correct worldview are full of lewd, disgusting behavior and widespread profanity, but it also has an interesting anti-big government subplot that demonstrates the benefits of a free market unrestricted by totalitarian federal bureaucracy like Obamacare, also known as the misleadingly named Affordable Care Act. The film begins with an underweight Matthew McConaughey as rodeo cowboy Ron Woodruff looking for women, alcohol, and illegal substances. Ron, who is extremely masculine and anti-homosexual, is taken aback when he receives a diagnosis of the AIDS virus and is given 30 days to live. After turning down a transvestite homosexual's friendship in the AIDS unit, Ron embarks on a crash course in virus research. He starts smuggling pharmaceuticals into the USA after learning about alternative therapies, specifically the usage of anti-AIDS drug combinations. In the gay AIDS community, Ron establishes a successful drug company, but the FDA cracks down hard on him. When Ron escapes from their grasp, they send the IRS after him. In the interim, Ron gains skills for interacting with gays, including the transvestite he previously rejected.
Entrepreneurial aspect
Early in the HIV/AIDS epidemic, it was commonly believed that the disease mostly affected gay males, prostitutes, and drug users. People with HIV/AIDS frequently faced discrimination; they were forcibly removed from their homes, barred from public spaces like classrooms, and sacked from their employment. In other cases, discrimination was even practiced against patients by medical staff. Many doctors and nurses explicitly declared they would not be coming anywhere near an AIDS patient even as this public health crisis was developing due to the personal risk and their duty to safeguard their own families. It should come as no surprise that the majority of HIV/AIDS patients in the middle of the 1980s passed died shortly after being given a diagnosis. Having someone that has a medicine to help cure or prolong someone’s life is truly incredible, especially back in the day. The study of health and healing is known as medicine. Nurses, physicians, and a range of experts are included. It involves medical research, disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, among many other facets of health. The goal of medicine is to maintain and advance good health. Ron Woodroof made society truly all around better in terms of what his innovation did.
