“Off Label”, now playing at the Cinema Village in New York and on-demand (nationwide screening info is here), is about the human guinea pig—those people forced by economic circumstances to take part in clinical trials, the first of whom is a young Asian man who became homeless after losing his job as a bus driver. Back in the sixties I knew many radicals who used to sell blood from time to time to augment the paltry wage they were making in the antiwar movement but eventually they moved on. The typical human guinea pig, like the pet he or she is named after, never gets off the treadmill.
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