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Sat, May 26 2012
Film Review: A Dangerous Method
Viggo Mortensen
Photo: Reuters
From the director of Videodrome, The Fly and Naked Lunch we have come to expect visceral cinema with oodles of body horror to make us truly uncomfortable, but in the past few years, specifically with A History of Violence and Eastern Promises, David Cronenberg has veered toward a more intense scrutiny of the reasoning behind his characters' sometimes brutal actions.
Perhaps it is the involvement of actor Viggo Mortensen, but, whatever the case may be, it seems the director has entered a new phase of his career in which character development trumps gross-out visual spectacle. This evolution is important to keep in mind when discussing the content of A Dangerous Method, since it has to do with a quest for a more complete understanding of an individual, and who better to act as our Virgilian guides in this underworld of the subconscious than the two founding fathers of psychoanalysis, Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud?
Mortensen stars as the bearded granddaddy, Freud, but the film rather belongs to his sometime disciple and intimate confidante, Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender), who is on his own path of both sexual and intellectual discovery because of his attachment to a young Russian woman named Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), who, suffering fits of hysteria and grotesque convulsions, is put under his care at the Burghölzli clinic in Zurich in the summer of 1904.
Read the full story in The Prague Post.
Perhaps it is the involvement of actor Viggo Mortensen, but, whatever the case may be, it seems the director has entered a new phase of his career in which character development trumps gross-out visual spectacle. This evolution is important to keep in mind when discussing the content of A Dangerous Method, since it has to do with a quest for a more complete understanding of an individual, and who better to act as our Virgilian guides in this underworld of the subconscious than the two founding fathers of psychoanalysis, Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud?
Mortensen stars as the bearded granddaddy, Freud, but the film rather belongs to his sometime disciple and intimate confidante, Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender), who is on his own path of both sexual and intellectual discovery because of his attachment to a young Russian woman named Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), who, suffering fits of hysteria and grotesque convulsions, is put under his care at the Burghölzli clinic in Zurich in the summer of 1904.
Read the full story in The Prague Post.
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