Movie – Dallas Buyers Club

Filed under the ‘thankfully, as good as I thought it would be’ category and featuring another actor that I could not previously watch, Matthew Mahogany. Now, Matthew McConaughey and re-invented from the RomCom films of old – or maybe he still makes them but I don’t have the displeasure of noticing. I recall Lincoln Lawyer and Mud as being the turnaround films.(Based on) the story of the macho, homophobic, rodeo cowboy who is diagnosed with Aids and given 30 days to live in 1985.It is believed the rest of the film may not be as truthful, but it sure bought home the ignorance of Aids being a gay disease back in the mid-1980s. Sadly, in parts of middle America and in the world that perception has not gone away.But it’s certainly how I remember AIDs being portrayed but thankfully growing up in England I was given enough information to know that it could affect any one of us.With Ron Woodroof (McConaughey), it was clearly his hedonistic lifestyle of consistent. unprotected sex that led him to the emergency room. He quite literally refused to die early and immediately we saw that underneath his bravado lay an intelligent man as he researched the effects of the disease and how he could prolong his life.My worry was (not knowing the true story) that he would find it hard to give up the drunken orgies but actually he did and instead, set up the Dallas Buyers Club to help others – the vast majority gay – get the medicine they needed. He risked getting arrested as he smuggled drugs from all over the world but did build a successful business in the process of prolonging his own life.The great story line includes Woodroof befriending fellow sufferer, transsexual Ray(on), (Jared Leto) and his doctor (Jennifer Garner) but with my business head firmly on, I’m impressed with the simple supply-and-demand nature of his commercial success.I’m reminded of Philadelphia, a brilliant film that I can never see again but the humour in this makes it highly watchable again.8/10Smile factor 7/10Coffee Rating: Ristretto