"Side Effect", I remember it was the director or screenwriter of "Dragon Tattoo Girl". I watched its promo a few months ago. The suspenseful reasoning, and it is related to chemical medicine, is indeed my dish.
To summarize the story of the movie in short words, it is the conspiracy of two lesbians and the counterattack of a man who was unlucky enough to be involved.
Of course, the story will not be so simple or scribbled. If the whole movie is regarded as a rich sample, what I am trying to do now is to separate and purify the different active ingredients in the sample and screen them one by one for other purposes.
Side Effect (side effect) originally refers to the indiscriminate harmful effects of drugs on the body while treating diseases.
Human nature:
where do you come from and where do you go? This is the proposition of "life is in choice". "The past behavior is a determinant of the future behavior." Past memories and experiences give people freedom of choice in the future.
The two women at the beginning of the story, one is a psychiatrist who was hurt by her lover’s cheating (I’m not sure about the specific title), and the other is a banker’s wife who is desperate and helpless due to drastic changes—I didn’t use planes here. The designer's professional identity to interpret her.
A psychiatrist who is familiar with medicine and pharmacology, and is good at interpreting changes in the mind and thinking codes. In the movie, she is a career-oriented strong woman, capable, steady, courageous and cunning, like an experienced demon fox. As a woman who was abandoned and betrayed by her lover, the knowledge and skills accumulated by the psychiatrist gave her the power to control her own destiny. She hates men, falls in love with women, and uses wisdom to pursue money and status. She wants to find herself again in the process of this profound alienation, in order to fight against the painful memories of the past and soothe the injured herself.
The banker's wife indirectly mastered the technology of various financial derivatives and enjoyed the glory that most people have never achieved. Destiny is not a joke, it is prosperous and declining, the cloud and the mud change, the lover and the rich and the wealthy, from the possession to the loss, she fell into grief. After experiencing the five stages of grief, the reality she accepted was a distorted reality: someone or something harmed her, ruined her, and she must return it and retaliate. Compared with the abstract fate, time situation, cause and effect, and good fortune, it is easier to get peace of mind if you blame everything on a certain person, who is her lover-Martin. This is probably inseparable from the experience brought by her father's neglect when she was young.
Look, two women who at the same time regard men as thorny ones have come together, using each other in a mutually beneficial and symbiotic relationship, and comforting each other, what a natural union! And the most terrible thing in this world is to form an alliance. Maybe it's really that "beautiful women are born actors." With the expertise of psychiatrists, coupled with the acting skills of the actor and actress, it seems that it is only a matter of time before the emergence of tricks and conspiracies.
Next, go through all of the procedure, if all goes well and the trick succeeds, then you will get what you want and die without regrets. But after all, it came together because of betrayal and self-interest. The suspicion in the bones cannot be overcome. Once it is discovered that being together is no longer mutually beneficial, but is accompanied by betrayal and injury, then rebellious rebellion will become inevitable.
At the end, the two wicked women were sanctioned, poor but of course, this can be regarded as an explanation to the broad audience with bright hearts.
The male doctor in the story is a hapless child, and he became a victim of the conspiracy. In the beginning, he came to the United States in pursuit of the humanity of the patients. The gentleness and humanity shown to criminals not only reflected his professional doctor's quality, but also shaped his gentle and enthusiastic side. I estimate that if there is no chance, he will fall into it. About the trap, he must be a good personality.
Next, the handling of the story is very clear. Since you have fallen into the trap, it just depends on how miserable you were: the dissolution of your wife, the departure of your friends, the blockade of media and public opinion, the decline of your career, and his own inner heart The struggle between good and evil.
To be a gag, when he searched for the paper on the side effects of sleepwalking on yahoo, I secretly laughed whether he would feel worried because he prescribed medicine without reading the paper in advance~
When I found that everything was a conspiracy, I was When pitted with nothing, the male doctor is also experiencing grief. After a painful struggle, he accepted the reality and chose to stride forward, launch a counterattack, and win back what he had lost! ——I would rather think about progress than stop when you think about it. After achieving the goal, the work was back on track, and his wife and children rejoined his arms. He not only fulfilled his own revenge, but also fulfilled his duties as a physician. On the level of factual justice, he also achieved the goal of punishing crimes. There are multiple birds with one stone, both public and private. All, but, can he treat this world with kindness and enthusiasm as before?
Technical:
Kevin Kelly's "what technology wants" is my favorite book at the latest stage, although I haven't had time to finish it. The views on the propositions of technology, information, life, etc. have greatly inspired my thinking in almost all fields.
Returning to this movie, in a sense, the entire movie side depicts a partial microcosm of such a technological space and time we are in.
From the utilitarian point of view of technical tool theory, we human beings, as individuals with subjective initiative, use the power of technology to realize our wishes. Gentlemen are hypocritical and stand on the shoulders of giants, making humans stronger and more powerful. From the beginning of language, human beings began to accumulate experience and create new technologies through the exchange of ideas and thoughts. Therefore, the phenomenon of "technological explosion" and "technical house save the world" replaced the original gene mutation as the driving force to promote the rhythm of species development and evolution.
The development of technology follows from the concrete to the abstract, from Apple computers or BMW cars, to biomedicine, psychological finance, program management, drug review systems, etc., technology is constantly evolving more and more deeply. At the same time, the characteristics of "inferences from one another" and "by analogy" of technology are also reflected in the movies, whether it is a trick weaved by two women through the combination of financial derivatives and biopharmacology, or a male doctor with the help of the procedural authority of the judicial system. After combining their own talents and knowledge, they generate clever tricks to break the enemy, and the cross-domain application and combination of technologies provide unlimited possibilities for the entire world.
Looking back at the beginning of the movie is a prison visit. Due to the lack of an X-ray machine, a girl had to take apart the wrapped gift for inspection. The spirit embodied in this shot runs through the film, that is, the systematic institutionalization of technology. When the abundance and prosperity of a single technology enters the framework of a systematic system, all operations must be in an orderly and proper manner, no exceptions are allowed. This order in ethical values is elevated to procedural justice, and from a technical point of view, this is highly technologically developed The concrete manifestation of the latter is like the formation of life from cells to organs. Everything must follow the passage of time and space and follow the corresponding rules and laws. The movie saw the FDA drug review, the justice system's no-two prosecutions, and the causality diagram (similar to the quality management class) when determining the accountability. Driven by this concept, people are alienated into various identity functions, such as lawyers, doctors, partners, security guards, parking lot janitors, and so on.
As a digression, people are alienated with different identities and functions in social system software, and when they become specific components, they more or less show the glory of their human nature in an alienated posture. Male doctors are conscientious in helping patients with kindness and security. To support the worries of pseudo-neuropathy when jumping the train, the lawyer's concern when fighting for 1% of the innocence defense of neurosis, the company's female boss considers the banker's wife for depression and giving fakes, etc. These things are precious.
The movie is named Side Effects, which is an interesting setting. When using a technology to gain benefits, it may also be accompanied by great risks. Looking back at the setting in the movie, "Financial Derivatives + Biopharmacology = Making Money + Murder + Convict", but the meticulous techniques have beaten all the major technical systems and software, such as society, economy, justice, medicine, one by one, as if Parasites grab nourishment from the host. But the parasite also has the risk of being killed by the host, but the method of death is not necessarily shot to death. As a result, although the murderer’s banker wife was not punished by law, she was trapped in a mental hospital rather than dead; behind the scenes the conspiracy of the female physician behind the scenes to make money through the sea was exposed by the recording of tainted witnesses.
The ultimate pursuit of drugs is to avoid side effects. The complexity and endless changes of technology have brought us closer to this goal, or farther away.
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