Burzynski Cancer Is Serious Business Movie Essay

Doctor Stanislaw Burzynski is a biochemist and physician born in Poland. He now resides in Houston Texas where he owns the Burzynski clinic, opened in 1976. The Burzynski clinic researches and uses a gene-targeted approach called anitneoplastons to cure non-curable types of cancers. The Food and Drug Administration has not approved Dr. Burzynski’s methods and has taken him to court countless times claiming several allegations against him. Burzynski- Cancer is Serious Business, released in 2010, is a movie, which explains his cancer treatment and shows video footage from court cases between him and the FDA. The movie also interviews a couple of Dr. Burzynski’s patients that have benefited from the antineoplaston treatment. Burzynski-Cancer is Serious Business uses many strategies to hook the audience into the movie. The …show more content…
Opening with a testimony using pathos or emotion hooks the audience and engages them want to hear more about Burzynski and his methods. Slow music plays during interviews with patients to create a personal relationship with the audience and person on the screen. Throughout the movie, during interviews and court testimonies, graphic and harsh diction is used which grabs the audience’s attention and they begin to feel the sadness that the patients have felt. Patient documents showing the size of their tumors throughout the course of the antineoplaston treatment are highlighted yellow to show only the parts they want people to see. Highlighting the documents yellow detracts the eyes from other parts only displaying the ones benefiting their case. Numerous statistics presented during the movie provide evidence on Dr. Burzynski’s