Dallas Buyers Club is about a man named Ron Woodroof. He is a redneck cowboy and electrician. At his actual job, being an electrician, he gets shocked by electricity and goes to the hospital to fin out that he has H.I.V. He is beyond angry when he hears this news. He decided to do some heavy research about this disease and sees that there is no progress or cure to it. He goes to Mexico to meet with a doctor that tells him about alternative treatments. Ron begins to smuggle this treatment into the U.S. and tells his doctors about it. They do not listen to him but that does not stop him. He met with his doctor, Eve Saks, and she tells him that there are medicines that she had heard of in Germany, but they are not in the U.S. He meets a new person that also has the disease, and they find that they have the same strive in life, to live. They decide to create a Buyers club for people that have H.I.V., and they can pay monthly for supplies that will help them. He later gets caught by boarder control about the medicines So, instead of selling drugs they decide to sell invitations to the Buyers Club. The FDA raids Rons’s apartments and finds the drugs but lets him off with a fine. Ron’s friend becomes sick and dies because of all the drugs he does. Ron eventually is allowed to use drugs for personal use. Ron later on dies seven years after he was diagnosed.
This movie is interesting because when I finished watching it, I questioned on how this was entrepreneurial. All this movie was about was selling illegal drugs to those that have the same disease that Ron had. I realized that it actually had an entrepreneurial perspective to it. This movie was interesting because it gave a different view of being an entrepreneur compared to all the other movies we have watched. They showed how that starting a business can be started from nothing and turn it into something.
Looking from the perspective of the movie, the interaction between the entrepreneur and the society they help each other grow. By this I mean that Ron needed people to buy the product that he had to have a business. He targeted a certain type of group who were those that had the same disease has him. Since there was high number of those that wanted those certain drugs, business was booming. When he could not sell the drugs, he basically gave an admission to join the club to those that still bought the drugs. It was kind of like a membership agreement. For example, Sam’s Club. You have to have a card that shows the workers that you are a member before you can shop. How this business affected society is in a good way. Ron was doing this for his health and the health of others. Yes, the business was illegal, but it built a business. He had his target market, and he already had the customers willing to buy the product. How the society affected the entrepreneur is by creating the business. This is how Ron got the money to buy more product to help those that needed the product. The society helped Ron create the idea of this business. The society influences entrepreneurs to create a business or to form an idea to help them with what they want. This is how the society supports entrepreneurs. The interaction between the aspect of entrepreneurs and society is that the society needs entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs need the society. They need each other to form a business and to get customers to support that business.
