A Dangerous Method Plot
If you have seen the trailer, you’ve seen it all:
Freud (Viggo Mortensen) wants to work with Jung (Michael Fassbender), who is at the time treating a female patient (Keira Knightley). Jung is impressed by how smart and educated his patient is, and he encourages her to pursue her dreams about being a doctor. After she gets better, she enrolls in the university to become a psychiatrist. She and Jung seem to agree more on things than Jung and Freud do, as Freud is not happy with Jung’s fascination with things that aren’t %100 scientific. He is not also thrilled about Jung’s attitude towards his patients where he seems to want to be their life coach as well, and not just their doctor.
Things on Jung’s end get more more complicated as he starts sleeping with his ex-patient, and starts treating another psychiatrist. Among all the S&M and his new patient’s lack of morals and limits, Jung’s chosen path starts differ radically from Freud’s.
A Dangerous Method Review
Well, this won’t be the last time the trailer of the movie is a lot more fun than the movie itself. I’d written a positive preview based on it, but the movie well…didn’t live up to my expectations. Let’s review this in the fashion of the one word association thing they do in the movie.
Movie – disappointing
Knigthley- annoying
Jung- mental
Story: dragging
Characters: unrelatable
Freud: saner
Relationships: seriously?
Gross (Cassel’s character): gross
Yes, I was expecting a somewhat controversial and a little kinky movie. But I was also expecting it to be fun, engaging and interesting. Instead, we get too much dialogue, a Jung that needed more therapy than his patients, a female patient whose diagnosis was only left to the audience to guess, a wife that’s anti-feminism personified. …
It is not to say I don’t have anything positive to say. I do. Keira Knightley’s performance was good, it was her character that was truly annoying. We got her issues, her problems the first three-four times they showed us, so there was no need to drag it.
Carl Jung was surely more than a man who slept around with his patients, took advice from a mental patient that also happened to be psychologist, saw his kids as hindrance to his career???
In a movie where Sigmund Freud is the only one who makes sense, the characters go around in circles with annoying manners and dragging scenes, great cinematography, costume design and acting don’t impress you much.
If you like Viggo Mortensen and Cronenberg, stick with A History of Violence. A Dangerous Method has its moments, but not enough of them.
My favorite part of the movie (spoiler!!): When Sabina (Knightley) picks a side in the dispute.
Currently rated at 7 imdb. I am however once again impressed by Mortensen’s acting skills.
Also on Keira Knightley:
Last Night starring Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Eva Mendes & Guillaume Canet
London Boulevard starring Colin Farrell & Keira Knightley
Keira Knightley Trivia: Facts About the Oscar-Nominated Star of Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice starring Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen
Also on Michael Fassbender:
Jane Eyre starring Mia Wasikowska & Michael Fassbender
Also on Vincent Cassel:
Derailed starring Jennifer Aniston, Clive Owen & Vincent Cassel
Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan: The Movie Natalie Portman Couldn’t Save
