Side Effects

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Side Effects is a new crime-filled thriller released February 8, 2013. It stars a couple of Hollywood’s heartthrobs, with Channing Tatum and Jude Law, and the star of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Rooney Mara, along with Catherine Zeta-Jones. This film has so many twists and turns it almost seems as though it was made to be a metaphysical detective film, meaning that questions are only answered with more questions, and it continually stumps the viewer. While watching it, you may think you have all the right answers, but at the end you may have it all wrong.

This is a film that makes the viewer have to really think to try to figure out what is going on and what the character’s motives are. You never know what is real and what is fake (Having a background with how stocks work can help you too.) It is Rated R for nudity, violence, and language and the run time is 106 minutes.

Side Effects is a film about a woman, Emily Taylor, who’s world is turned upside down when she begins to take a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist that has “unexpected side effects” . The movie is about Emily Taylor, a young woman who becomes severely depressed when her husband is taken to prison, and even after he returns. She goes through suicide attempts and emotional breakdowns. She is prescribed Ablixa, a new anti-depressant that has just hit the market. The side effects of the drug lead Emily to do an unforgivable deed in a “sleepwalking” state and sent to a mental hospital. Dr. Banks, Emily’s psychiatrist, takes the fall for the incident and his practice begins to crumble, even though he is not responsible for the drug. But there is a twist that the doctor will soon find out.

Steven Soderbergh creates a twist-filled plot that deals with several morally ambiguous characters all revolving around one horrible incident. He seems to convey quiet chaos with his frequent close-ups, and shifting in-and-out of focus throughout the screen, he draws attention to many small, but important details.The real strength of this film is how it is presented. Information is released one by one at different times, and we are kept waiting through interviews, court hearings, false trails, and many psychiatrist visits until, finally, everything comes together at the end.

 

I did not want to give away a lot of the plot because this movie is so interesting and one small detail could ruin a part of the film, but i recommend everyone to see this movie! You definitely won’t regret it, and it has become one of my favorites.

26 thoughts on “Side Effects”

  1. Thanks for the review of Side Effects, Naya! It sounds like an interesting movie – I remember seeing a preview for the film before Zero Dark Thirty, but I never got around to seeing it.

    One question your review raised was about spoilers in movie reviews. Complex detective stories like Side Effects are kind of hard to talk about without giving away significant details . . . but does a film reviewer always have the responsibility not to give away plot details that might be surprising to a viewer? I mean, if a film has a really bad ending that affects your assessment of the film, why shouldn’t you be able to talk about that in your review?

    There’s a great essay about spoilers on “The Awl,” where the author argues that spoilers don’t really matter: “If a show or movie or book is really, truly great, you can watch it again and again and again, well after you know what’s going to happen, and the aesthetic pleasure you derive therefrom will not diminish. It may even increase. This is an essential part of the work’s greatness.” (http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/no-great-work-of-art-can-be-spoiled).

    What does everyone else think – have spoilers ever totally ruined your experience of a movie or TV show?

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  2. I can tell you right now that you did an exceptional job on the review because I already want to watch this film and I haven’t even seen the trailer. The idea oh a psychoactive, potentially trippy, thriller excites me. And I really enjoy movies that grasps me but pure confusion. Especially if they are able to bring the narrative full circle in the end.

    I appreciate you not revealing too much detail and I will be sure to invest some time into this movie. Thanks for the review, I was unaware that Side Effects existed.

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  3. You are definitely one of the best review writer I met!! Your review has exquisite balance of revealed information and secret information. When you said ” he draws attention to many small, but important details.” in your blog and, then, I wondered how did the film make us notice those details. By the cinematography? mise en scene? Ok, I gonna check it by watching!!

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  4. I really enjoyed your review. I have seen the movie and I totally agree with you, it is really disturbing. I am the kind of person who will know how the movie is going to end after watching 10min of it (especially Hollywood movies). But this movie is different, it’s simply impredictable and that is what I liked about it.
    I understand why you didn’t want to say too much about the movie. I think it would pretty much ruined the experience of watching it.
    The thing is, I also think that spoilers should not matter as long as the movie is Furthermore, I would not Watch this movie again because I think it would be pointless even though I enjoyed watching it the first time.

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