A Dangerous Method is a movie released last year, and based upon a book authored by John Kerr. The movie touches upon subjects that truly interest many of the eclectic tastes of Zity.Biz’s membership, including things of anal orientation, discipline & punishment, and psychoanalysis.
Some of the most scintillating moments of "A Dangerous Method" are sexually bracing, and many Zity.Biz members will be attracted to this movie, and want more… Tis not a gr8 movie, IMDb rated it a 6.7 and I agree. But it is a good movie, and keeps one’s attention, especially if the sexual themes play to the viewer’s mind. The acting is good, the story is above average, and the location is very picturesque.
[color=#000000]There is conflict between Jung and Freud. And, sadly, their relationship ultimately comes to an end during their lifetimes. The founder of modern psychiatry, and one of his greatest students, seemingly did part on not so friendly terms… [/color]Sabina Spielrein is a patient of Jung, whom he helps to heal from a deeply neurotic state, promotes her education in the field of psychoanalysis, and ultimately takes her as a lover ~
[color=#fa000a]One reviewer wrote[/color][color=#fa000a]: [/color][color=#333333]This discovery brings Jung into the life of his mentor, Freud (Viggo Mortensen), as it validates his theory that sexuality and emotional disorders are intertwined. As the years pass, what began as a cordial, clinical acquaintanceship deteriorates into a stubborn clash of ideologies; Jung becomes increasingly bothered by Freud's unwillingness to reconsider his theories about sex, whereas Freud cannot tolerate Jung's growing interest in spirituality. During their initial correspondence, Freud refers Jung to a psychiatrist-turned-patient, Otto Gross (Vincent Cassel), a drug addicted hedonist; his arguments against monogamy inspire Jung to violate his code of ethics and begin an affair with Spielrein, which continues long after she ceases to be his patient and enrolls in medical school. This is not merely a physical attraction. He has truly fallen in love with her.[/color][color=#000000]”[/color]
Author: www.imdb.com. francescof86, from Italy wrote the following:
It's always difficult to review a movie based on psychology because sometimes what's difficult to understand is too easily categorized as illogical or bad execution.I heard so much criticism towards the last movie by Cronenberg. I completely disagree with those bad reactions. "A dangerous method" is a brilliant, absorbing and thought provoking movie that boasts excellent performances by the three leading actors. The direction is great and Cronenberg once again shows his uncommon ability to tell a story in a very original way although the dialogs are sometimes hard to follow, probably due to its subject.But there are really breathtaking moments such as the scenes of the Spielrein therapy. This leads me to Knightley performance. It was a brave,shocking and terrific performance that it was criticized without a reason. I didn't catch all that hatred.She has always been so good ("Pride e prejudice", "Atonement" and "Never let me go") but here she left her comfort zone to bare herself and gives one of the most exiting performancesthe year. Oscar worthy material.
Fassbender was equally great in the role of Jung and it's a pleasure to watch this splendid rising A-list actor.Mortensen was good but I fear not as good as Fassbender and Knightley. Cassell is always Cassell. He's a good actor but he plays always the role of the daring man.I think that "A dangerous method" is one of the best movies of the year. It succeeds to transcend from his particular story to focus on the hidden instincts associated with the human nature. My vote is 8/10
From Publisher Weekly; Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein, by John Kerr(Author)
This exciting study sheds much new light on the vexed Jung-Freud partnership and on the current status of psychoanalysis. At its hub is Sabina Spielrein (1886-1941), one of the first women psychoanalysts, whom Jung treated for hysteria when she was 18. She evidently fell in love with Jung, and he broke off their intense relationship to avert public scandal. Spielrein found in Freud a friend and mentor, confiding to him the details of her attachment to Jung. Kerr, a clinical psychologist and historian, asserts that Freud attempted to use what he knew about Jung's personal life to exert ideological control over the psychoanalytic movement. In Kerr's scenario, Jung apparently was aware of Freud's secret affair with his sister-in-law Minna Bernays--an affair which is denied by many biographiers, but that Kerr defends as plausible based on Jung's explicit testimony and on recent scholarship. It was after Jung threatened to retaliate by revealing what he knew about Freud's personal life, Kerr maintains, that their collaboration dissolved. He argues that both men had an opportunity to make psychoanalysis an open, scientifically grounded discipline, but instead succumbed to ambition, dogma and personal animus. Kerr also charges that Freud and Jung suppressed Spielrein's own fertile theory of the unconscious, which conceived of sexuality as fusion rather than pleasure.
The movie, A Dangerous Method, is worth the 7 commercials which you can high-speed through, and then sit back and enjoy 99 minutes of history and a good story-line, some of it being very erotic, on DVD recently released to RedBox, BlockBuster Express, and other fine movie purveyors...
Now ~ go out and make it a gr8 week!
Hermann