A Moving Movie...
How easy it is to forget in 2013 America what it was like for people diagnosed HIV-positive in the 1980s, when the epidemic was seen as a "gay" disease...when so littlewas known and understood that other people would not even touch a person with AIDS...when the diagnosis was a death sentence, at least in the eyes of the medical community. I spent two hours this afternoon at the Aperture Cinema in W-S, absorbed in a film entitled "Dallas Buyer's Club" and was both enthralled by the story and enraptured by the performances of the two main actors: Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto. The true story of Texan, Ron Woodroof, the official film website has this synopsis of the movie's story: A son of Texas, Ron Woodroof is an electrician and rodeo cowboy. In 1985, he is well into an unexamined existence with a devil-may-care lifestyle ( And incredibly dangerous and self-destructive one, I might add.) Suddenly, R on is blindsided by being diagnosed...