Thoughts on: Side Effects
Great mystery movie. It slows down a tiny bit between the crime happening and the mystery beginning, but nothing to worry about. The acting is superb, with Jude Law and Rooney Mara being as excellent as always. It provides all the information necessary for the audience to work it out in advance (which is a personal requirement for me when watching mysteries), but portrays it in a completely different light at the time. Just as it proves the importance of context when hinting at the truth, so to does it comment on the danger of context when surrounded by crazy people - suddenly everything you do can seem crazy. How do you know if someone is actually crazy, or just appears crazy because you've prejudged them? What about the reverse? 9/10