The Movie Diorama Forget about 'Contagion' (which was entirely mediocre anyway) and even put aside 'Flatliners', trust in Steven Soderbergh to get the job done right (on his second attempt...). An entirely gripping, captivating and twisted plot that might just be his career best. A young woman, who's husband has just been released from prison, is prescribed a drug to cure her depression, but with unexpected side effects. Since its release, this has always been in the top echelon of thrillers in my opinion. Sure, the narrative slowly becomes convoluted and frequently drifts away from the prescription drug problem that it illustrates. However, it never fails to hypnotise me. A provocatively shot underrated gem that deftly balances its jeopardising characters that strangely feel both likeable and despised simultaneously. The screenplay is confidently written to make you doubt yourself, you think you've got one character sussed only for the story to then take a sharp turn in the opposite direction. It's almost Hitchcock-like, which to me is an admirable inspiration and one most thrillers should take notes from. Jude Law and Rooney Mara must be praised for their natural ability to entrance me. Much like medicine, I became dependant on them at delivering the story and they did so with ease. Newman's composition suited the clinical environment and surprisingly had me on edge even more. Soderbergh's direction and cinematography was sumptuous, loved how the background and foreground were always blurred and only the character speaking was in focus. A fantastic method to engage the viewer and ensure they are paying attention. Safe to say his experience paid off dearly. As I said, the plot does become slightly convoluted during the third act and plot holes do crop up occasionally. Yet, it's very rare for a thriller to consistently keep me engaged and for that I have to applaud Side Effects. A film that I will frequently revisit on an annual basis.

Davis P Side Effects (2013) really is all about keeping the viewer thinking about who has done what and why they might have done it. It stars Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta- Jones, and Channing Tatum. Every single actor in this movie nails their performances! I absolutely loved Rooney Mara in the lead role of Emily Taylor. She is the wife of Channing Tatum's character, Martin Taylor. Martin Taylor has been in prison for the past 4 years for insider trading. When he is released from prison it's time for them as a married couple to start up their life together once again. But Emily starts having bad episodes of severe depression like she has in the past. She begins to see Jude Law's character, psychiatrist Dr. Jonathan Banks. And then everything in the movie just speeds up from there. And Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Dr. Victoria Seibert, Emily Taylor's precious psychiatrist from when she suffered from depression before. The film has a very well written script that gives great depth to every character and every scene in the film. The movie doesn't waste a single scene either! I adore it when a film does that! Make good use of every single scene in entire runtime, don't bore the viewer with scenes that have no pertinence to the plot at all. The film combines great performances from fine, talented actors and a well written script that both entertains and keeps the audience very invested and on the edge of their seat. 10/10!

lidianusa Side EffectsEmily Taylor is a young lady that becomes severely depressed after her husband Martin gets out of jail. She starts showing episodes of emotional suicide attempts, which leads her to meet Dr. Jonathan Banks, who ends up becoming her psychiatrist. Dr. Banks prescribes several different depressant medication that does not work well for Emily, and after Emily asked about a specific medication, Dr. Banks consults Emily's previous doctor, which helped and gave him more confidence to prescribe Alixa. The plot of the film gets stronger when the medication starts to show severe side effects, with episodes of an unusual side effect that makes her to sleepwalking. Due to that condition, Emily ends up killing her husband. With this difficult situation, Dr. Banks career is at risk, and Emily ends up in a mental hospital. After Emily ends up in a mental hospital, Dr. Banks starts to investigate Emily's case in order to clean up his name, and what he finds out is a quite surprising sequences of manipulative and controlling situations that conducts to the tragedy of his life. Side effects is a thriller suspense drama movie directed by Steven Soderbergh. The film shows an aggravating situation that is very well known in the USA, depression. The film shows aspects of a normal life that can be very surprising at the end. "The early scenes of "Side Effects" are fairly spellbinding as Soderbergh quietly but effectively puts viewers into the anxious, jagged mindset off someone who feels out of sync with the world around her and helpless to do anything about it. At the same time, he and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns (who previously collaborated on "The Informant!," and "Contagion") offer a cuttingly satirical glimpse at an over medicated world in which doctors serve as paid mouthpieces for pharmaceutical companies and everyone has a recommendation for some pill or another that will presumably smooth over pesky traces of everyday existence." (Side Effects Movie Review & Film Summary).It is important to remember that Soderbergh touched an important fact that faces a lot of people around the world. Not to mention the labs who make those type of prescriptions must have been not that happy with the information that was passed along to the movie. This film speaks about a life reality and it portraits perfectly how depression work, even with a double personality Emily Taylor shows on the film.

James There is a moment - perhaps 20 minutes into Steven Soderbergh's "Side Effects" - when it seems that we are watching a film which ponders on how society deems it desirable and necessary for basically well-meaning, morally virtuous and clever psychiatrists (such as Jude Law's character Jonathan Banks) to suggest radical changes in behaviour (and the possibility of the titular "side effects") - achieved using the highly lucrative output of (and under a degree of pressure imposed by) "Big Pharma", on the basis of perhaps just 45 minutes a week of contact with sad and confused and needy patients such as Emily Taylor (played by Rooney Mara).Given such a very challenging thesis, plus the acting talents of Mara (very convincing as the patient) and Law (who captures the film from the moment he appears), it seems that we have something highly interesting and thought-provoking to deal with. All the more so as things go wrong, and Dr Banks rapidly finds himself losing all the allies, reputation, stability and forms of support he thought he could take for granted - as rather a pillar of society. Pillar he may be, but resting on completely shifting sands.It thus comes as a minor annoyance to have that film and that content taken away once it has seemed to be introduced and established ... in the name of an also-interesting, but certainly lesser/more predictable conspiracy thriller plot in which the hitherto-minor character of second psychiatrist Dr Victoria Siebert (Catherine Zeta-Jones) suddenly comes much more to the fore.At that point none of the parties seen to be playing games with one another emerge as very much smelling of roses, and this leaves a surprisingly bitter taste.None of this takes away fully from a film that is intriguing and taut and interesting and well-acted throughout, if subject to the aforementioned mammoth change of plot direction that is certainly a bit of an acquired taste, and not altogether justified.