A Dangerous Method (2011)

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"04.04. PC, 1st viewing DIRECTED BY David Cronenberg And this was so far my least favorite Cronenberg. It's very tame for one of his films - just Jung, Freud & co. discussing for the entire duration, pretty much. Also Keira Knightley can't act. While some of the discussions are pretty interesting (especially for a guy like me who doesn't know the first thing about psychoanalysis), I'd rather just read a book of Jung or Freud as it'd certainly get into more depths. Not a horrible film, just fel"

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"3/16/13 I had a few nights-off from movie watching due to my purchase of the first season of The Young Riders but I found the time to watch this and, I must say, I was blown away. This film is bloody brilliant!!! It centers upon the friendship between Carl Jung (Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Mortensen) and the affair that Jung has w/ a patient, Sabina Spielrein (Knightley), and how that tryst serves as a catalyst to sever their friendship. It's much more than simply that though. Spielrein goe"

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" Viggo Mortensen "

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"Viggo Mortensen as Sigmund Freud (an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis.Freud went on to develop theories about the unconscious mind and the mechanism of repression, and established the field of verbal psychotherapy by creating psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient (or "analysand") and a psychoanalyst) Also Michael Fassbender as Carl Jung (a Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of analytical psycholo"

“NOTE: Before we begin the review proper, I viewed this film two years ago when it was in theaters with my best friend. I believed that I had already p”

A Dangerous Method

“NOTE: Before we begin the review proper, I viewed this film two years ago when it was in theaters with my best friend. I believed that I had already posted my review for it sometime last year, but it appears to have disappeared off of listal. So, here we go again – I’ll do my best to try and remember all of the pros and cons I had with the film, but do cut me some slack. It has been awhile…

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A Dangerous Method on the outside looks like David Cronenberg has gone not only mainstream, but into glossy Oscar-bait territory with this story of the birth of psychoanalysis, but beneath that surface lies the twisted, diabolical sexuality and violence at play in so many of his great films. Yes, it does away with body-horror, ” read more

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"29.12.2012 "

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"Don't you think there's something male in every woman and something female in every man? Or should be? The story explores the relationship of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. While the performances were quite good (especially Fassbender's) I found the movie rather boring. "

“If there's one thing I've never enjoyed in my life is reading film-celebrity-music-game-gossip magazines. Not only I detest them but see them as a huge waste of paper and time. Go on, read a novel, an autobiography or Reader's Digest but don't read these. How I wish someone had stopped me while I was buying Total Film magazines. I couldn't help it, the old lady was giving them for 100 Bz, or in other words, for free; I bought 5 of them. I got familiar with their pattern after just 2 magazines and got wised to their sense of humour and style of writing. After noticing this particular film in one of the magazines, the very next day I downloaded the film, very enthusiastically, but I must say, I was left a teensy-weensy disappointed by the end result.

Cronenberg has over the years e” read more