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movie review - Dallas Buyers Club

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is a movie about a young man in the early days of the AIDS crisis who contracts the disease from a junkie prostitute. It's quite engaging, as the main character is a charismatic rogue who will do whatever it takes to get the drugs he needs to combat the disease in a society that isn't interested in helping him. He successes lead him to doing the same for others and soon enough he's running the titular buyers' club. His voyage is marked with interactions with his fellow travelers and near-constant problems with the authorities.

I quite enjoyed the look into a world beyond anything I'd considered, which is saying something since I know someone who went through it all. It's a gritty tale of course and ends badly but it's done with such skill that you're glad for the authenticity.

Strongly recommended.