Steven Soderbergh’s latest film, “Side Effects,” boldly takes up the dangers of prescription medicine that our quick-fix culture chooses to ignore.
Anything but predictable, “Side Effects” is embedded in a world of psychiatric medicine that has become deeply familiar to the tens of millions of individuals who use commonly prescribed mood-altering drugs. Zoloft, Prozac, Wellbutrin, Effexor — they’re all mentioned by name in the film.
Rooney Mara stars as Emily Taylor, a woman whose husband, Channing Tatum, is recently released from incarceration for insider trading. Emily clearly isn't the happiest of working wives, and after she is hospitalized for an apparent suicide attempt, she meets a psychiatrist, Jude Law, who believes that through the proper medication, he can convince Emily's brain that she is no longer depressed. He prescribes to her a revolutionary new drug Ablixa,, a fictional drug that is closely modeled on real ones, down to the rosy television commercials and the dizzying litany of possible side effects. The drug works, and Emily's "happiness in a pill" seems to have been found, but then those damn side effects start kicking in.
Side Effects will reportedly be Soderbergh’s last cinematic feature, so long as he doesn’t pull a Jay-Z and change his mind about stepping away from film. That makes Side Effects an interesting note for him to end on. In a career that’s spanned fantastic thought-provoking flicks like Traffic and Erin Brockovich and fun, flashy fare like the Ocean’s movies and last summer’s Magic Mike, it seems as though he wanted to leave audiences with one to grow on.
Side Effects mostly fits that bill — it’s intriguing, full of good performances, and rife with the lush shots the director is known for — but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a little lacking. It’s a great psychological thriller that spends a little too much time on psychology and not enough on thrills.
Side Effects
Opens on Feb. 8, 2013 in US
Directed by Steven Soderbergh; written by Scott Z. Burns; director of photography, Peter Andrews; edited by Mary Ann Bernard; music by Thomas Newman; production design by Howard Cummings; costumes by Susan Lyall; produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Gregory Jacobs and Mr. Burns; released by Open Road Films. Running time: 1 hour 55 minutes.
WITH: Jude Law (Dr. Jonathan Banks), Rooney Mara (Emily Taylor), Catherine Zeta-Jones (Dr. Victoria Siebert), Channing Tatum (Martin Taylor), Vinessa Shaw (Dierdre Banks) and Ann Dowd (Martin’s mother).
索德伯格惊悚新片聚焦药物”副作用” 龙纹女联袂塔图姆
《副作用》 英文名： Side Effects ; 又名: 谜离药谎(港) / 苦药丸 / The Bitter Pill
《副作用》剧情简介：
《龙纹身的女孩》(The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)鲁妮·玛拉奥斯卡影后提名后加盟了史蒂文·索德伯格最新惊悚剧情片《副作用》，取代了之前盛传的女一号布莱克·莱弗利(Blake Lively)，鲁尼在片中将和查宁·塔图姆饰演纽约的一对夫妻，为缓解丈夫出狱所带来的焦虑，鲁尼饰演的妻子艾米丽·霍金斯(Emily Hawkins)服用大量药物，产生了可怕的幻觉，这位令人不安的妻子还和自己的精神科医师（裘德·洛 饰）发生了感情，这段危险的三角恋伴随着药物的迷幻性，在索德伯格激烈暗涌的镜头操控下，显得张力十足。
和去年的《传染病》一样，《副作用》也是一部明星扎堆的电影，女主角鲁妮-玛拉是好莱坞近年新崛起的女星，两年前曾凭大卫-芬奇的美版《龙纹身的女 孩》 杀入奥斯卡最佳女主角决赛圈；男主角查宁-塔特姆则更是好莱坞的当红男星，《誓约》《龙虎少年队》以及《魔力迈克》都极其卖座，凯瑟琳-泽塔-琼斯的新作 《破碎之城》最近依然在北美热映中。本片明星之间的对手戏颇让人期待。
导演：史蒂文·索德伯格(Steven Soderbergh)
演员：
鲁妮·玛拉(Rooney Mara)
查宁·塔图姆(Channing Tatum)
裘德·洛(Jude Law)
凯瑟琳·泽塔-琼斯(Catherine Zeta-Jones)
类型：犯罪 / 剧情 / 惊悚
上映日期： 2013年2月8日 美国
关注理由：
1 史蒂文·索德伯格携新爱将查宁·塔图姆《魔力迈克》(Magic Mike)之后又一力作，该片同时也是导演和编剧老搭档斯考特·Z·彭斯(Scott Z. Burns)的再次合作
2 预告片得到国外媒体大力赞赏，鲁尼表演实力再次得到认可
3 裘德·洛与凯瑟琳·泽塔-琼斯的加盟助阵，令本片增色不少
适合人群：
1 史蒂文·索德伯格影迷
2 心理惊悚片爱好者
3 各主角的热心粉丝们
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