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Title: A Dangerous Method (2011)
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| Keira Knightley | ... | Sabina Spielrein | |
| Viggo Mortensen | ... | Sigmund Freud | |
| Michael Fassbender | ... | Carl Jung | |
| Vincent Cassel | ... | Otto Gross | |
| Sarah Gadon | ... | Emma Jung | |
| André Hennicke | ... | Professor Eugen Bleuler (as André M. Hennicke) | |
| Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey | ... | Sándor Ferenczi | |
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Mignon Remé | ... | Jung's Secretary |
| Mareike Carrière | ... | Food Nurse | |
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Franziska Arndt | ... | Bath Nurse |
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Wladimir Matuchin | ... | Nikolai Spielrein |
| André Dietz | ... | Medical Policeman | |
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Anna Thalbach | ... | Bathtub Patient |
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Sarah Marecek | ... | Orchard Nurse |
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Bjorn Geske | ... | Orderly (as Björn Geske) |
Suffering from hysteria, Sabina Spielrein is hospitalized under the care of Dr. Carl Jung who has begun using Dr. Sigmund Freud's talking cure with some of his patients. Spielrain's psychological problems are deeply rooted in her childhood and violent father. She is highly intelligent however and hopes to be a doctor, eventually becoming a psychiatrist in her own right. The married Jung and Spielrein eventually become lovers. Jung and Freud develop an almost father-son relationship with Freud seeing the young Jung as his likely successor as the standard-bearer of his beliefs. A deep rift develops between them when Jung diverges from Freud's belief that while psychoanalysis can reveal the cause of psychological problems it cannot cure the patient. Written by garykmcd
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Have you ever witness a hysterical person having a crisis? I haven't, probably neither have you. Could that be the reason why to some reviewers (including myself) the histrionics of Keira Knightley as a hysterical patient were embarrassing to watch on the screen? I don' know. Probably real hysteria looks like that but in daily life a witness won't feel what a film viewer feels when being forced to watch incessantly all those facial and body contortions on close ups.
After those first over-sized and over-dramatic scenes, the film takes a very natural tempo either on camera work or in tone down dialogs, serene outdoor and indoor scenes, making a very well mannered, ultra civilized and fascinating film indeed.
The professionalism of everyone involved in it is impeccable and the script sound as it could be for a one and a half hour film explaining to a general public something as complicated as psychoanalysis involving two of the most important personalities of the last century responsible to have revolutionized and changed the course of history in that field for ever after.
Some reviewers criticized this movie as elemental, as too basic while I think it wasn't meant for a professional audience of top psychologists, but merely a very good piece of entertainment for the masses and at the same time with modest doses of knowledge about a theme that in general is unknown to the great majority and vastly complicated.
Same goes for the criticism of some reviewers about the sex life of these people when it came to show them in bed doing their own Kamasutra. How far did they expected the sex scenes to go? to the point of impregnation of the female and posterior birth as its consequence?
I don't know, I think that that was beside the point in this very serious movie and moreover, that kind of titillation should be look for on a different kind of movie. To me this was an excellent movie very fulfilling from all points of view.