Ron the rebel and Brother Yong the savior

Blaze 2021-10-13 13:08:25

Reading the sharing of "I am not the God of Medicine" in WeChat, I immediately thought of this "Dallas Buyers Club" and felt similar. It was not until the movie "I am not the God of Medicine" that the two were different. "I am not the god of medicine" adopts the method of avoiding the truth and the root, avoiding the most important, and making all the reasons superficial, pointing to the drug factory, and finally portraying the little people into "heroes." "Dallas Buyers Club" is much more honest, there are no heroes in it. The protagonist Ron is very non-mainstream. He is a character like a gangster or a rascal. He lives in a cheap activity room and works as an electrician. He smokes, drinks, and takes drugs, participates in rodeos, and has sex with women in hidden corners of the arena. Later he contracted AIDS.

The most different from "I am not a medicine god" is that Ron himself is an AIDS patient, so all his initial motivations for finding drugs, smuggling, and selling drugs are to survive by himself; meet Rayon, a transvestite at the most difficult time in life. , Made him from a very resistant and exclusive attitude towards the gay group, through personal contact, gradually understand the gay group; he also transformed from a vagrant cowboy into a social activist fighting for the rights and interests of the AIDS group.

Therefore, in "I'm Not the God of Medicine", Brother Yong is positioned as a savior, while Ron is positioned as a rebel.

There are not many details of the film that can be remembered, and the friendship between Ron and Rayon is also very moving.

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Extended Reading

Dallas Buyers Club quotes

  • Ron Woodroof: I still got HIV?

    Dr. Vass: You will always test positive for HIV. And now you've got AIDS for all the toxic shit you've put in your body. You've shut your immune system and now you've got chronic leumonia, among other things. It could cause memory loss, mood swings, aching joints.

    Ron Woodroof: So if it sucks, I got it.

  • Ron Woodroof: Do you ever miss your regular life?

    Dr. Eve Saks: Regular life? What is that? It doesn't exist.

    Ron Woodroof: Yeah, I guess. No, I know, I just... I just wanna...

    Dr. Eve Saks: What?

    Ron Woodroof: Ice-cold beer, a little riding in. Well, take my woman dancing. You know? I want kids. I mean, I got one... one life, right? Mine. But sh... Fuck, I want somebody else's sometimes. Sometimes I just feel like I'm fighting for a life I just ain't got time to live. I want it to mean something.

    Dr. Eve Saks: It does.