New
movie-release in Navi Mumbai
By Dinesh Kamath
Side
Effects is a 2013 American
psychological thriller film directed by Steven
Soderbergh from a screenplay written by Scott Z. Burns. The film stars Jude
Law, Rooney Mara, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Channing Tatum. The film concerns the ramifications of an event
following a young woman being prescribed antidepressant drugs.
Jude Law gives his best performance since Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr Ripley, playing Dr
Jonathan Banks, an ambitious and fashionable Manhattan psychiatrist who thinks of himself
as a decent guy. Dr Banks has a heavy
caseload, and is more than ready to consider the blandishments of the
pharmaceutical industry, who are prepared to pay him the big bucks to prescribe
some of the hi-tech anti-depression drugs they are developing.
The destiny of handsome, compassionate Dr Banks intersects with that of a
beautiful and troubled young woman, Emily,
played by Rooney Mara. She is someone
else who had grown accustomed to the good life, until her investment-banker
husband Martin, played by Tatum, was arrested and imprisoned for
insider dealing some years ago. Now he is out, and Emily has discovered that her already existing issues with
depression have been intensified by the grim reality of making a home with no
guarantees about future income – or anything. She is discovering for herself
that a working definition of depression is an inability to imagine the future.
After a strangely needless car accident, Emily
comes under the care of Dr Banks, who
suspects that she is trying to hurt herself, and after some false starts with
conventional medication, he puts her on the very latest in prescription drugs.
Almost at once, Emily becomes happy,
excited, well adjusted and sexually fulfilled. But there are side effects –
chiefly a disruption to her sleep patterns and a strange new habit of
ultra-lucid sleepwalking.
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