The film tells the story of Ron Woodroof, an AIDS patient diagnosed in the mid-1980s when HIV/AIDS treatments were under-researched, while the disease was not understood and highly stigmatized. As part of the experimental AIDS treatment movement, he smuggled unapproved pharmaceutical drugs into Texas for treating his symptoms and distributed them to fellow people with AIDS by establishing the "Dallas Buyers Club" while facing opposition from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
A good true story about a guy fighting AIDS, he gets it from unsafe sex practice. During the mid-1980 whoever have HIV/AIDS would not have long to live. He was diagnosed and only given 30 days to live. Initially, his first character was a wild weekend rodeo then after the diagnosis, he did his own research on how to survive with AIDS. He is far away from giving up and fighting away by his own method, living healthy, using his own medicine. He ends up living for another 7 years.
The movie got me thinking, you are only dead when you give up. How impossible the thing is you still can fight it. The fighting will be hard and long. When it about your body and health you will be fighting to the end. When the fighting stop, your life also stops. I also had a similar health issue even not that bad, I could felt how Ron felt.
Watching the movie, I also wonder AIDS was so deadly and taboo during the old day. People relate it to LGBT. This group surely knew they are at risk of HIV with their choice of life, but why they still do it. Do their lust outweigh their life?