Movie reviews

BURZYNSKI. CANCER IS GREAT BUSINESS

Recommended again. It watches like a thriller.

Thankfully, as I learnt in the meeting with Dr. Burzynski, most of the presented problems are a thing of the past. Now, not only have survival rates increased, in case of some cancers, to 50 or 60%, the biggest challenge seems to be getting the life-saving medication registered in Poland. Good news is that the prerequisite genome tests are going to be getting cheaper and cheaper (now being at 5000 euros). Dr. Burzynski himself struck me as a perpetual optimist - surely that's how he's survived several decades of struggle against all sorts of authorities in both countries.

Since the time I saw this movie I've been having an impression that what's happening in the AIDS business is similar to cashing on cancer. If it's possible to keep the retrovirus in check by means of daily doses of medication taken till the end of one's life it must be possible to destroy it altogether just as well but for pharmaceutical companies it would mean a drastic drop in profits.

MANGROVE

Watchable. A slow-paced film made to help you unwind. Other than that, nothing new in the storyline or the visual form.