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What do you do when you get hold of the drug that can cure
the disease you are suffering?
But if you don’t have that much time the drug requires..
What do you do now? Sell it for high profit.
That would have pretty much summed this Rodeo Drama based on
real life but Dallas Buyers Club by Jean Marc Valle’e is one of those
based-on-true-stories project that shows and celebrates the power of common man
and portraits the David-Goliath battle of the victim and the system. If you
can’t beat it, join it; that’s the motto electrician come hustler Ron Woodroof
applies when he is accidently suspected with HIV and is given an ultimatum of
30 days in which he has to clean up his mess. What follows is an extensive
battle, at the core of which lies an extreme urge to live. Mathew McConaughey
shatters all inhibitions and boundaries in his portrayal of real life Ron
Woodroof who tries to relieve his and other’s pain by illegally obtaining AZT,
an anti-dote for HIV AiDS. That walk, that tone and that Texas attitude that
showed in his character was beautifully exhibited by Mathew and not mention the
weight loss he had to go through. As and
with any great film, the cast and team need a resonance in high level performance
and DBC doesn’t miss that either. Jennifer Garner (w/o Ben Affleck) does a
critical job of the controlling and caring doctor edging on the moral
vulnerability; responsibility over reality. And the best is probably the
character of Rayon played by Jared Leto, a transgender drug addict. Phenomenal
transformation is what it is.
The 86th Academy Awards has seen very few times
such a combination of powerful performance, this acute nonchalance wrapped in a
real life based drama and as such it does not save any accolades to shower on
it. Probably a film in long time to have won both the best actor and supporting
actor in the male category; McConaughey and Leto takes what they deserves.
Mystic River was probably the last movie to have such an honour. And that’s not
the end. It also took the best make-up award. The background scores are
sometimes touching and at other times high octane. But mostly what makes me
feel for this film was the courage the actors showed in performing, researching
and thus living the characters shown in this film.
While the character of Dr.Eve Saks played by Garner and
Rayon by Leto are fictional the film was more focused on the lead character of
Woodroof thus the script had to curtail the real life daughter and sister of
real Ron Woodroof. But all in all, DBC is just the shut up system needs to stop
it’s delusional irresponsibility. Membership is only $400.
Until next time…
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