Divide by Zero
The Living Force
Hi,
I just saw this movie today and it was very interesting with great casting and acting.
Side Effects (2013)
Director: Steven Soderbergh - Cast: Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Vinessa Shaw
Once a successful New York couple, Emily and her husband are now struggling to readjust to life after his recent release from prison. Emily is plagued with a clinical depression and, following a car crash, is referred to respected psychiatrist Dr Jonathan Banks who offers the latest in prescription drugs to try and alleviate her anxiety. However as Emily's relationship with both Dr Banks and her prescribed medication intensifies, she finds herself descending into a chemical-fuelled nightmare where the lines between fantasy and reality become dangerously blurred. This is a riveting psychological thriller where neither the symptoms nor the cure are quite as straightforward as they seem.
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I expected it to focus on the issues of the psychiatric drugs after Emily's "sleepwalking murder" of her husband. She clearly looked like someone who didn't know what happened, like Sirhan Sirhan. The movie even seemed to go in the direction where she may be someone suggestible, like he was.
The movie also showed a lot of the corruption with pharmaceuticals, even the problem with advertising them (suggestability- placebo effects).
However, later on Dr Banks exposes her fraud after a few tests on her. Turns out shes a psychopath in a stock trading scam with her previous therapist, who teaches her what to say and do as a "depressed person".
When she recants her past, losing all the riches she had with her husband and why she did this scam, you see more into the mind of a psychopath. Her depression was not typical, instead of grief/confusion/being lost, she was depressed because she "lost her food" (the rich lifestyle that she lost when her husband got jailed for insider trading in the past).
Dr Banks was wise as a serpent in turning the two psychopaths against eachother, Emily and her previous psychiatrist, by using the game theory against them. It reminded me of Laura's book Almost Human, where it is explained that game theory only really applies to psychopaths and was developed by them.
I just saw this movie today and it was very interesting with great casting and acting.
Side Effects (2013)
Director: Steven Soderbergh - Cast: Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Vinessa Shaw
Once a successful New York couple, Emily and her husband are now struggling to readjust to life after his recent release from prison. Emily is plagued with a clinical depression and, following a car crash, is referred to respected psychiatrist Dr Jonathan Banks who offers the latest in prescription drugs to try and alleviate her anxiety. However as Emily's relationship with both Dr Banks and her prescribed medication intensifies, she finds herself descending into a chemical-fuelled nightmare where the lines between fantasy and reality become dangerously blurred. This is a riveting psychological thriller where neither the symptoms nor the cure are quite as straightforward as they seem.
SPOILER ALERT:
-
-
-
-
-
-
I expected it to focus on the issues of the psychiatric drugs after Emily's "sleepwalking murder" of her husband. She clearly looked like someone who didn't know what happened, like Sirhan Sirhan. The movie even seemed to go in the direction where she may be someone suggestible, like he was.
The movie also showed a lot of the corruption with pharmaceuticals, even the problem with advertising them (suggestability- placebo effects).
However, later on Dr Banks exposes her fraud after a few tests on her. Turns out shes a psychopath in a stock trading scam with her previous therapist, who teaches her what to say and do as a "depressed person".
When she recants her past, losing all the riches she had with her husband and why she did this scam, you see more into the mind of a psychopath. Her depression was not typical, instead of grief/confusion/being lost, she was depressed because she "lost her food" (the rich lifestyle that she lost when her husband got jailed for insider trading in the past).
Dr Banks was wise as a serpent in turning the two psychopaths against eachother, Emily and her previous psychiatrist, by using the game theory against them. It reminded me of Laura's book Almost Human, where it is explained that game theory only really applies to psychopaths and was developed by them.
