In the current American context, respecting LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) rights has become the best choice for “politically correct”, even if you don’t want it in your heart, such as in movies In the mass media of this kind, you have to be tolerant of fake models, right? However, when the "Dallas Buyers Club" features a homophobic as the protagonist, it can instead be "politically correct". For this gay man-it must be pointed out that for many homosexuals, Leto’s performance is actually not without distortions. In fact, in the gay liberation movement in the United States, we have been very careful not to deliberately show exaggerated transvestism. Such images, because such images themselves contain one-sided cognition and discrimination of homosexuality, which is also a demonized understanding.
Of course, a film is a film, not a sociological survey report. Even if it is adapted from a real event, the artistic rationality of the film must be re-examined with a tolerant mentality. The protagonist Woodruff is a homophobic afflicted with AIDS, which itself contains huge drama contradictions, and he is an out-and-out "villain" at the bottom. Prostitution, pornography, gambling, and drugs are no less in life. Even when the gambling is started, the money of other gamblers is hacked. It is not a big crime, but it has absolutely nothing to do with "noble", in order to better show this image of homosexuality. -The mental journey of AIDS awareness, with a transvestite homosexual that he almost hates physically, is of course the easiest to play (in reality, I have not verified whether Woodruff really has such a good friend).
From a sociological perspective, the film actually starts from the conflict between morals and laws, presenting us with a legal dilemma: in order to protect the health of citizens, Americans have enacted laws and must use the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) Medicines; but for AIDS patients, they simply cannot survive the long period of drug clinical trials, so they launched self-rescue operations, organized groups to smuggle drugs and use them privately. For a Texas "villain" like Woodruff, even if he contracted AIDS, he would not sit back and die, and he was resolute and vigorous, who had never been abiding by laws and regulations, and established such a "buying club" in Dallas. A large group of AIDS patients bought drugs that were not approved by the FDA. For this reason, Woodroff became a drug dealer, smuggling AIDS drugs all over the world, and was suspected of practicing medicine illegally-but he did prolong the lives of many people. Including himself.
As far as the law is concerned, Woodroff’s actions are of course illegal, but in the end he took the FDA to court. Of course, the judge gave full sympathy to Woodroff’s encounter and resistance, but the entire medical and health legal system cannot collapse because of this, so Woodroff lost the lawsuit, but was given the right to give himself medication-when he returned to the office At that time, everyone lined up to applaud him. For a person struggling to fight AIDS, he certainly deserves this honor.
"Dallas Buyers Club" follows Hollywood's consistent (one-sided) populist attitude. The big pharmaceutical company and a decent doctor have become villains (they are also real villains, thus reflecting the morality of Woodruff. Kindness), there is no clear clue to love in the film, and Woodroff, who is a gambling prostitute, has not even had time to have a relationship-the young female doctor who started with sympathy and joined his "buying club" at the end was responsible for it. Played the role of the "salvation angel" in the film.
Thaddeus Russell once clearly pointed out in the book "Rebels: The Little People Who Shaped the American Freedom System": The driving force of American history forward also comes from the duel between the respected and the rebels. , That is, the confrontation between the virtuous and the unscrupulous, the confrontation between "good" citizens and "bad" citizens. "In American history, the struggle between these two types of people determines the breadth of individual freedom." Driven by the rebels, many of the pleasures and freedoms that were illegal in the past have now become "the pleasures and freedoms that American citizens cherish or hope to have in their lives." Honestly, "Dallas Buyers Club" is a screen anthem dedicated to such rebels. The so-called democracy is not superior, knowledgeable, elegant and selfless. In essence, it is precisely because of the recognition of universal selfishness. Driven by interest and desire, democracy is needed, and the rule of law is needed, right? The law is hardened and polished during bargaining, and it has been smashed out of numerous conflicts of interest. A rebel like Woodroff is an important factor in making the American legal system more in line with the "American Dream"-although his motives are not noble at first, and the means are not without narrowing.
Until the last moment, I still felt that Woodroff was a bit homophobic, and he still didn't like transvestism. At the same time, the FDA is still the most authoritative medical review agency in the world.
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