Movie Name:- A Dangerous Method

Release Date:-23 November 2011

Directed By:- David Cronenberg

Produced By:- Jeremy Thomas

Category / Genres:- Biography, Drama, Thriller

IMDB Rating:- 7.2

Run Time:- 99 Minutes

Star Cast:- Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel, Sarah Gadon, André Hennicke, Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey, Mignon Remé, Mareike Carrière, Franziska Arndt, Wladimir Matuchin, André Dietz, Anna Thalbach, Sarah Marecek, Bjorn Geske,

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A Dangerous Method Movie Story Line:- Based on a book by the same name, by John Kerr, this movie tells the story of a young psychiatrist, Carl Jung, and his illicit relationship with his teenage patient, a Russian girl named Sabina Spielrein. Jung was a close associate of the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, and it is assumed that Sabina was a major reason for the feud that cropped between them, and their ultimate fallout. Sabina, a troubled young woman, is transferred from a psychiatric facility to Jung’s clinic, after she becomes ‘impossible to control’. She is suffering from a form of hysteria, in which she sinks in and out of alternate periods of depression and excitement, with physical manifestations. Jung uses his psychoanalytical principles to work on Sabina, who herself, being keenly interested in psychoanalysis, ends up being both his patient as well as his student. She is unable to talk while being looked at, which is why he sits behind her during their conversations, as she talks about her troubled childhood and her abusive father, which are the reasons behind her condition. Her sessions with Jung gradually lead to her condition improving, but she develops a sexual attraction towards him in the process. Being married with children, he strongly opposes her advances, but she is determined to vent out her intense sexual energy on him. Watch A Dangerous Method online to see what happens next, as Jung gradually begins to fall for the charm of his beautiful, young patient, and how this alters his close bond with Freud.

A Dangerous Method Movie Review:- Call them what you like - docudramas, faction, biopics - the creative vitality of films based on real-life events is usually constrained by the straitjacket of historical fact. "A Dangerous Method" is yet another example of the diluted drama common to this genre, as it relates how the collegial friendship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung foundered on personal and philosophical differences. Like much of Cronenberg's recent work, the film takes itself with pompous seriousness, but it's merely a highly speculative, psychoanalyst soap opera that reveals next to nothing of the two physicians' 'dangerous method'. The story begins with the arrival of a beautiful, disturbed young woman, Sabina, at Jung's clinic. Within moments the mercurially brilliant Jung has pinpointed the histrionic girl's problem - guilt over masochistic sexual fantasies engendered by her sadistic father's corporal punishments during childhood. After some trite therapy sessions, she is soon on the road to recovery - whereupon Jung encourages her to become an analyst. Sabina promptly invalidates this recommendation by initiating an affair with the married Jung - and before too long he is administering severe spankings to his former patient as a prelude to their lovemaking.

"A Dangerous Method" tries to cover too much ground, and ends up skimming the surface of the story it wishes to tell. When Jung and Freud meet up with one another, they engage in wooden discussions about their ideas which supposedly cement a deep friendship, whilst pedantically telegraphing the reasons for their subsequent estrangement. The one provocative episode in the film is Jung's brief association with Otto Gross (Vincent Cassel), whom he analyzed at his clinic. Gross turned the tables on his therapist - persuading Jung to act on his repressed desires for Sabina - before he seduced a nurse and escaped over the clinic's wall to a life of poverty and disrepute. Cassel invests Gross with such dangerous charm that one yearns to join him in his flight from Cronenberg's shallow imagination.