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发帖数: 423 | 1 Side Effects, suspense&drama, 8/10 (85% on RT)
The official trailer turned out to be concealing and misleading: A
psychiatrist (Law), prescribed a new antidepressant drug to a young patient
(Mara, the fierce Dragon girl), who apparently had a sweet lover. It looks
like despise of his family, Law developed the intimacy beyond the legal
relationship between him and the attractive, vulnerable patient. And there
was a murder, there was conspiracy, there was devastation, and there was
punishment.
So I assumed that, Law fell in love with his patient, who was messed up by
both the depression and the drugs, killed the patient’s boyfriend/husband,
but somehow escaped from the punishment by passed it on to the poor girl.
But it turned out that I was so wrong about almost every bit of the whole
puzzle.
Alert! Spoiler! (But it is only the first layer, which wouldn’t spoil your
enjoyment of this movie at all.)
The film's first half shows us that the patient killed her husband while
apparently she was sleepwalking due to the side effects of the new drug. And
the psychiatrist didn’t have any affair with her.
What unfolds until now is perhaps some kind of typical pharmacological
thriller, one in which the crime and offender (a more proper word than
criminal) are known, but guilt an open question. Is the perpetrator
responsible, or is a drug—and if the latter, who's to blame? The
prescribing doctor? The pharmaceutical company? Free will grapples
inconclusively with chemical determinism, and for a time it seems that Side
Effects will be, like Soderbergh's earlier Contagion, an epidemic film—
though in this case the story of the afflictions we've brought upon
ourselves in our quest for the perfect pill.
That’s by far I can foresee, but I was wrong. Soderbergh has other plans.
And the script flipped, and flipped again. Victims will become victimizers;
puppeteers, puppets; defenders, accusers. Questions of sanity and obsession
will be raised and then reversed. (Echoes of Rear Window and Vertigo ring
loudly.)
There are some, no doubt, who will be disappointed by the film's cultivated
confounding of expectations, and perhaps not without reason. The questions
Side Effects raises early are genuine ones, and it ultimately evades them,
opting for entertainment over moral exploration.
(Adapted from)http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/02/the-brilliant-evasions-of-side-effects/273043/
These films, “The Side Effects”, “Magic Mike” and even the “Ocean’s
Eleven”, have something in common, which is a critical interest in the
intimate effects of a capitalist economy that bundles ethical risks along
with material comforts and opportunities for self-making. Mr. Soderbergh’s
tales of sex, drugs, illness and crime are also about money. To some extent,
of course, money is the unacknowledged obsession of everyone who makes
movies, but few filmmakers have put this concern on screen with such
intelligence and wit. This honesty is a big reason to miss Mr. Soderbergh
and to hope that his retirement is temporary.
(Adapted from)http://movies.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/movies/steven-soderberghs-caper-film-side-effects.html?partner=rss&emc=rss | n***w
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发帖数: 423 | 3 我哪里会有那么厉害的，我只是写的点开头，后面的关键部分都是从影评人那抄来的。
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