This week on The Other Half, we’re closing out our annual Canada Month series with our wonderful friend Madison to tackle 2013’s Dallas Buyers Club. A movie that qualifies for our Canadian theme solely because its late, great director, Jean-Marc Vallée, came from Quebec!

Join us as we break down a movie that starts with Matthew McConaughey watching bull riding during a rodeo hookup(?!), collapsing into a pile of nudie magazines, and reacting to a 30-day terminal AIDS diagnosis by immediately doing lines of coke and drinking whiskey in the dark. What a way to set up a character.

Along the way, we dive deep into Jean-Marc Vallée’s naturalistic camera style and ear-ringing sound design, obsess over Griffin Dunne playing a hippie clinic doctor and compare the film’s Hollywood narrative to real-life Wikipedia history. Pour yourself a drink, grab some of your favorite “vitamins”, and let’s find out more about the DBC.

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