Deborah Ross

Dallas Buyers Club – Matthew McConaughey gives the best performance of anyone’s career

He never seeks our affection or sympathy, but somehow wins both

Matthew McConaughey: top performance [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy] 
issue 08 February 2014
Although you’ll have heard that Dallas Buyers Club is fantastic and Matthew McConaughey gives the performance of his career, I know you won’t believe it unless you hear it directly from me so here you are: it is fantastic and Matthew McConaughey gives the performance of his career. In fact, it may be the best performance of anyone’s career. It’ll blow your tiny minds. It blew my tiny mind. ‘That blew my tiny mind,’ I even said afterwards, so it has to be true. Dallas Buyers Club is based on the real story of Ron Woodroof, a difficult hero. Ron, when we first encounter him, is attending a rodeo and having rushed, seedy sex with two women in one of the holding pens. Ron drinks, snorts coke, rides bulls and struts about in a Stetson, with one of those cock-of-the-walk, macho gaits. He is no great respecter of the ladies, and is also profoundly homophobic, as are his unappealing friends.

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