Absolutely Fantastic

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

To resume this movie in three short words they should be Bla Bla Bla because that's basically what you will watch for the entire seance. I do like a serious discussion about serious things in life but a thing I don't like is psycho-analysis. And because A Dangerous Method is about Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud that's what you get for the entire movie. Analyzing people or at least trying while in fact there is not much to analyze. So it quickly becomes really boring to watch. The actors are not bad though if you like that kind of boring movies but for me you could put my favorite actors in this story and it would still be crap. When you see Sabina Spielrein played by Keira Knightley acting like a total spass that can barely speak a word correctly and then suddenly evolve to another psychologist with no speaking disabilities you wonder if this movie can become any dumber. The longer I watched it the lesser I liked it. If I had to have a conversation in real life with any of those psychologists I would probably die from boredom. Like I almost did watching this movie.

What does this movie show us? Thats the question here we are to ask ourselves.In my opinion we see here two mentally unstable psychoanalysts. Which seems to be a contradiction. But as mentioned in the movie "how can we be a good Doctor without being a bit ill". Which seems absolute right. Though the work of Sigmund Freud is the utmost interesting the way he behaves in this movie he gets blocked in his work because of his inflexibility in his thinking. He seems not insane enough to go on with his work.In the beginning it's certain that Sabina has gone mad. Though the first surprise is directly why she had gone mad. Until i all becomes clear it seems like she had been sexually abused by her father and that that caused a trauma. Though a second later the whole story makes a u- turn. Not a trauma was caused but a longing to pleasure an addiction to the abuse.Then she seems to get better and the Doctor and her get closer as friends. Then when a patient makes the Doctor change his mind and Sabina and him get really close, first there seems nothing wrong. Until you can see that longing for pleasure has turned to him.She wasn't cured yet(what seemed the case) she just found another person that could satisfy her needs. Then when she gets more stable she seems finally possible of living a normal live but the relationship has still left a scar on her further live. He on the other hand seems to get worse with every decision he makes and becomes Les stable though he gets more focused on his work and Les influenced by others.

After all the positive reviews, I had high hopes for this movie, but found myself very distracted. I love to be engaged in a story and kept hoping I would be, but I finally gave up, which is rare for me. I expected something far more intelligent and interesting. The acting was fine, but the content was pedestrian, more like a bad TV movie than an actual cinema piece. Seems Keira felt this and worked harder than anyone to make this a decent film, but her effort, while appreciated, was in vane. Worst of all is the horrific green screen, looks like something from the 70's. Very disappointed, this movie could have been so much more.

While being thrilled to Cronenberg's upcoming MAPS TO THE STARS, which will debut in Cannes this year in the main competition, it is an apposite time to visit his other work which escaped my watch list although COSMOPOLIS (2012, 4/10) is a fiasco which quite disheartens my faith, luckily, A DANGEROUS METHOD is surprisingly robust in depicting a historical love affair between one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, Doctor Carl Yung (Fassbender) and his Russian patient Sabina Spielrein (Knightley), at the dawn of 20th Century, at the same time, the film also probes into Yung's correspondence with Sigmund Freud (Mortensen), how their assumed mentor-and-next-in-line rapport disintegrates in the wake of their diversified convictions in the professional field. The film dedicatedly shuns away from being a hagiography, neither for Yung nor for Freud, their highly dialectical discourse is stingingly gripping, Freud avers all neurosis is of exclusively sexual origin while Yung champions parapsychology, plus Vincent Cassel, has a small role as the more unorthodox psychoanalyst Otto Gross, who is a game-changer in Jung's world-view when he attempts to analyze Gross. Words are not verbose anymore, in psychotherapy, it is the most or maybe only effective means to divulge what's hidden inside the labyrinthine mind, Fassbender and Mortensen are conspicuously excellent in their two-handers, the former often blinks rapidly as if he tries to convey his ideas through an impregnable wall erected by the latter, who never loses his composure and is indomitable to any rebuttal. This film is not at all Cronenberg-esque, it is a straightforward drama, the only remotely grotesque scenes are Keira Knightley's distorted effort to mimic a patient under hysteria, she is gutsy and to say the least, all-out for a difficult role involves with sadomasochism, anal fixation and insanity, I'm not a naysayer in her performance, on the contrary, she barely misses my top 10 list of leading actress in 2011, the sexual tension between Sabina and Dr. Yung is unforced, although as unlikely as an ace among his peers, Dr. Yung would make such a blunder at the first place to fall for his patient, he has his secrets too, a libido-driven temptation is too hard to reject, the pleasure which Sabina offers cannot be achieved from his melancholic wife Emma (an underplayed Sarah Gadon), eventually he becomes a monogamy dissenter as Otto has advised. A DANGEROUS METHOD inclines to be an actor's playground rather than Cronenberg's auteurist endeavor, stemming from my self-satisfying purpose, I hope MAPS TO THE STARS will be another vehicle for its A-list cast, in the main for my goddess Moore, who can return to the brutal Oscar battle in an age when most actress are regressing to sideline offers. Maybe Cronenberg is the right turn this time.