Side Effects
13/03/13 Filed in: Cinema
Orange Wednesday and today's film was Side Effects.
I knew nothing about the film before sitting down to watch it. It was Helen's choice.
For the first half or so I thought I was watching an impressive account of the dangers of modern anti-depressant drugs, and very convincing it was too. Rooney Mara, her of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, was superbly showing how depression can destroy a life and how drugs are not necessarily always the answer.
Jude Law, playing the psychiatrist Jonathan Banks, who by pure chance became involved with Mara's character Emily, finds both his professional and personal life unravelling as a consequence of Emily's actions.
But all is not as it seems, and the story of depression turns into one of intrigue. I won't say more at risk of spoiling the film for others.
Well worth seeing.
I knew nothing about the film before sitting down to watch it. It was Helen's choice.
For the first half or so I thought I was watching an impressive account of the dangers of modern anti-depressant drugs, and very convincing it was too. Rooney Mara, her of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, was superbly showing how depression can destroy a life and how drugs are not necessarily always the answer.
Jude Law, playing the psychiatrist Jonathan Banks, who by pure chance became involved with Mara's character Emily, finds both his professional and personal life unravelling as a consequence of Emily's actions.
But all is not as it seems, and the story of depression turns into one of intrigue. I won't say more at risk of spoiling the film for others.
Well worth seeing.