In the evaluation of "I am not a medicine god", many people mentioned a key word:
Chinese version of Dallas Buyers Club.
Because both films are based on real people and real events, they are very close to reality, and both try to expose social issues such as the inside story of the pharmaceutical industry.
Then, sister, I will recommend this classic to you today.
Because, this movie is also worth watching again.
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Douban scored 8.7 points, which is better than 95% of feature films and biopics. In the top250 list, it ranked 181st.
The film was released in North America in 2013 and then swept the awards season that year, winning more than 40 awards, large and small.
At the 86th Academy Awards, there were six nominations; it won three awards: Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, and Best Makeup and Hairstyle.
However, such a masterpiece that shocked Hollywood was filmed in only 25 days.
And due to the shortage of budget, handheld digital cameras and on-site light shooting were used during filming, and in the process of watching the film, there was a documentary-like look and feel.
Even if the production budget is stretched, through the wonderful script and the soul-possessed performances of several leading actors, a "history of the AIDS people's struggle" in the United States in the 80s is almost flawlessly displayed to our eyes.
1986, Dallas, a southern city in Texas, USA.
This is a city of cowboys, and the old cowboys who live here have three major hobbies:
Drinking, beauty, gambling in bullfighting matches.
The male protagonist, Ron Woodruff, is a representative of this, he is an ordinary electrician, living a sloppy, debauchery and depravity.
Arguably, Ron was an out-and-out old jerk. Like his fox friends around him, Ron's biggest hobby is women in addition to making money and sucking powder.
In that relatively old-fashioned era, homosexuality was considered a perversion.
Ron and his friends are a group of stubborn "homophobes", and when someone mentions the news that a certain male star who came out of the closet and suffered from AIDS, Ron was even more disdainful.
But fate sometimes likes to tease people.
A villain who hates homosexuality suddenly falls ill with AIDS. To make matters worse, the doctor told him that he had only 30 days left to live.
Played in the film as the male protagonist Ron, played by the famous American actor Matthew McConaughey.
Remember the father of an astronaut who crossed a wormhole in Nolan's "Interstellar"?
And in Dallas Buyers Club, Matthew McConaughey is performing with his life!
In order to play the image of a terminally ill addict, he frantically lost nearly 50 pounds of weight, almost to the point of being unrecognizable.
In the end, he won the 2014 Oscar for Best Actor with "soul-possessed acting skills".
Under the Oscars that year sat Chevat EdgarFort ("Twelve Years of Slavery"), Bruce Dunn ("Nebraska"), Christian Bell ("American Hoax"), and Little Plum with his "Wolf of Wall Street"), but all returned home.
When he learned that he was suffering from his most despised terminal illness, his performance was simply exploded.
His first reaction was that he was a little dazed, that he was not a comrade, that he did not believe that he would get this disease.
Then his emotions were out of control, and he angrily questioned the doctor's examination results, but in fact, there was already a trace of inadvertent panic in his eyes.
When a person has only 30 days left in his life, he finally feels scared!
At first, Ron gave up on himself, and he began to take drugs and drink heavily. Then hushed out and began to indulge. But after indulging, he felt a huge sense of despair oppressing him.
Even the friends around him began to look at himself differently, and colleagues and friends thought he was a.
I got this disease because of, what an ironic argument.
This made Ron gradually recognize the reality, in order to find out the cause of his illness, he checked a lot of information.
Through the information, he learned that the local hospital had just introduced a new drug called azt, which may be helpful in the treatment of AIDS.
This drug was the only anti-AIDS drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration at that time. However, because it is still in the clinical trial stage, the number of drugs is limited and the number of trial places is very small.
This gave Ron hope that if he wanted to live, he would have to find a way to get medicine.
He first purchased the drug through a temporary worker at the hospital, but after taking it for a while, he found:
This drug does not make AIDS better, but has strong side effects, and even accelerates the decline of the body's immunity.
In order to survive, Ron began researching various other prescription drugs for anti-AIDS.
However, he was told by the doctors at the local hospital that the drugs he needed were not approved by the drug bureau and were banned.
Ron didn't understand.
Why is it that there are drugs with better therapeutic effects, but they are considered forbidden drugs?
He felt desperate again, and as he sat in the car, he touched the pistol in his pocket, but then he could only howl helplessly.
He was not reconciled, so he began to frantically go around seeking medical treatment.
Eventually, he traveled south to Mexico to find a doctor whose license had been revoked by the United States.
Under the treatment of private doctors, Ron took an anti-AIDS drug that was not licensed by the Food and Drug Administration, and as a result, he actually survived for 3 months!
This gave Ron business opportunities and hope, and he decided to return home from Mexico with medicine and sell it to people with the same disease as him.
In order to survive, but also for the money needed to survive.
During this time, Ron met an AIDS patient, Wren, a transgender man with AIDS and drug addiction.
The person who subverted Wren in the movie was Jared Leto, a hollywood actor who played the Joker in "Suicide Squad".
In the film, he boldly challenged a transsexual AIDS patient dressed up charmingly, and his acting skills also exploded, winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor that year.
At first, Ron was also very concerned about Renne's gay status, but because he wanted to expand the market, he chose to win Over Rennes, after all, the gay group is a high-incidence group of AIDS.
So the two of them jointly opened a purchasing club that deals in illegal smuggling of drugs.
Dallas Buyers Club.
For only $400 to join the club, you can enjoy the same therapeutic effect of anti-AIDS drugs that can only be used by local hospitals for tens of thousands of yuan in treatment costs.
The number of club personnel increased day by day, and the patients' conditions also eased day by day, and more and more people slowly survived the date of death declared by the hospital.
However, with the expansion of the club's scale, Ron's illegal drug business has also violated the interests of the local drug regulatory department and the hospital, and has begun to be chased and blocked by various sieges.
With the contact and interaction with the AIDS patient group, Ron's attitude also began to change subtly.
He began to really understand the "gay" community, persuaded Wren to give up drug use, and even took the initiative to stand up for Wren when his former friend insulted Wren's comradehood.
As for those who suffer from AIDS, they are actually no different from themselves, they are just a group of ordinary people living an ordinary life.
And more importantly —
On the road to the fight against terminal illness, they are all equally helpless and vulnerable, and they must do everything they can to live in a humble way.
In order to let more people live, Ron, the old bastard, has gradually become a fighter for the rights and interests of AIDS patients.
From the day he was diagnosed with only 30 days to live until his death, the real-life Ron himself survived for a total of 7 years.
During these 2557 days, he has been relentlessly fighting against the disease, with the Drug Administration, with the pharmaceutical manufacturers...
The fascinating thing about the movie is that—
Although it focuses on a special group of marginalized people, the director does not deceive the audience from tears by selling misery, nor does he sympathize with them from an outsider's point of view.
Instead, it only tells the story of their struggle to survive at the border of life and death, desperate struggle.
The director creates an imperfect image of an atypical hero, whether it is Ron's smuggling behavior or the act of making a big fuss about the hospital because of the death of a friend, which is made to shine because of the human light behind it.
At the beginning and end of the film, there are two scenes of bullfighting, one head and one tail looking after each other, and hinting at the protagonist's change of attitude towards life and the struggle against fate.
Bullfighting, which originated as an ancient religious practice in Spain, is a sport in which people fight with bulls, and those who participate in bullfighting are called bullfighters. In Spain and the entire Spanish-speaking world, the bullfighter is regarded as a heroic and fearless man, and is highly admired and worshipped by the Chinese people.
Bullfighting is fierce and brutal, and it takes great courage and boldness for a bullfighter. Tough guy Hemingway once said: "Bullfighting is the only art that puts artists under death threat." ”
At the beginning of the movie, when a cowboy is fighting a cow on its back, Ron is hiding in a dark corner of the arena doing something indescribable with two women.
At the end of the movie, he is skinny and bony, and he finally rides on the back of an ox, and on the back of a bumpy cow, he tightly grasps the reins of life.
This is the last Ron, an indomitable fighter who fights for his life.
Being born as a human being itself, walking in the cycle of birth, old age, illness and death, is destined to be a tragedy. Each of us, even if we can stay away from the pain of Ron and Wren, will eventually be the protagonists of our respective tragic feasts.
The struggle of human beings against disease will be a battle that can never be stopped, and understanding and respect are everyone's struggle against their own ignorance.
As the movie says:
Sometimes I know that I may not have the opportunity to experience that kind of life, but I still want to fight for it.
If you haven't seen the movie yet, then be sure to check it out when you have time.