《永生的海拉》是根據(jù)RebeccaSkloot的紀實文學改編的電影，講述了海拉·拉克斯的故事。海拉·拉克斯是一位上世紀五十年代身患癌癥的黑人女性，她的癌細胞被非法獲取并被用于醫(yī)學研究。這些細胞被稱為“不死的”細胞，對醫(yī)學界有重大影響。電影主要圍繞海拉·拉克斯的女兒黛博拉展開，她試圖理解自己從未見過的母親，并研究她與現(xiàn)代醫(yī)學發(fā)展之間的關(guān)聯(lián)。電影深入揭示了醫(yī)學界存在的問題，并探討了友誼和人類情感的力量。這部電影不僅帶來了懸疑和傳記的刺激，還讓觀眾思考醫(yī)學界的倫理和道德問題。

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I have to say that I was not moved at all. They seem to care about only money and kept going after financial compensations, not justice. Any family without a mother will have problems around it, no matter how the mother died or whether she turned into an immortal cell line or not. So save the pity. I wish the movie could educate more on the medical regulations back then and today. The movie did not detail on the drug tests they did on their mother or sister and should have spent more time on it instead of having Oprah showing off her ability of playing hysteric. These people have very little basic biology/medical knowledge and it can be extremely hard to teach them and make sure they stay objective about science and knowledge. They are after the money. They don't understand medicine or science. That's it.

If no consent was required from patient back then, they cannot sue Johns Hopkins.
If it's just about donating a little cancer tissue for research, I don't think, even today, the patient gets any specific financial compensation for that. It does not matter what your little biopsy turns out to be in 50 years or longer. I don't see a lot of other unhumane drug tests described in the movie. It's all about Oprah's emotions, not history or science.

Oprah's performance is too dramatic. If the movie is about racism, then make it about racism. And that did not seem to be the center of the movie either.

Johns Hopkins did mis-reported the name of the patient in the first place, and called it Helen Lane. (For quite a while during my research career, I thought it was Helen...) They should do something about it. And I feel sorry about it, too.

When HBO first released the movie, I thought they were going to make a very objective documentary instead of this sh*t. Isn't it true that HBO is good at showing good documentaries? What happened to them wasting money on this...

Just want to be fair from the perspective of a medical researcher. Please don't take anything personally.