Freud vs. Jung a beautiful period piece [MOVIE REVIEW]
Viggo Mortensen as Sigmund Freud. Photo by Liam Daniel, courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics In “A Dangerous Method,” David Cronenberg gives us a beautiful choreographed period piece, lushly filmed and intelligently told. Written by Christopher Hampton, using his own play “The Talking Cure,” John Kerr’s book A Dangerous Method and Jung’s own notebooks, the film unspools the ever widening rift between Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and the man he thought would carry on his work, Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender). The fulcrum of that unraveling relationship was a young woman, the brilliant and beautiful Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), suffering from hysteria and sent by her parents to the Burgholzli mental hospital in Zurich where she becomes a patient of Carl Jung, resident psychiatrist and practitioner of Sigmund Freud’s talking cure, psychoanalysis. Jung successfully breaks through to Sabina, eventually taking her as his mistress and encouraging her own medical studies in psychiatry. Conflicted both by the ethics of an affair with a patient and his doubts about Freud’s approach to sexuality, Jung is at a crossroads; a crossroads made more difficult when Freud sends him the…
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