Dallas Buyers Club: A Cis-Het White Savior's Wet Dream
Dallas Buyers Club (2013) directed by Jean-Marc Vallée is a film inspired by real life. It’s set in the mid-1980s and follows the life of a Texan man named Ron Woodroof after his diagnosis of AIDs. He’s informed by his doctors that he only has thirty days left to live. With the little time he has left, Woodroof seeks out any treatment he can get his hands on. With the help of a fellow AIDs patient, Rayon, Woodroof starts a buyer’s club to sell illegally imported drugs to other AIDS patients. This sensationalized and sometimes fictionalized recounting of Ron Woodroof tells his story as he battles his own raging bigotry, his AIDs diagnosis, and the government’s attempts to shut him down in the face of an epidemic. I can’t say for sure what this film set out to do, as I’ve never sat down and had a conversation with the creative minds behind it. All I have is my interpretation of the film to go on , and what I left with when the credits started rolling. Besides, it wo
