Overall this is a intriguing movie that is worth seeing at least once, wasn't groundbreaking but it's a good movie that is more than just a love hate relationships kinda deal. And he has set the bar very high. I agree that Keira does seem to over act when trying to play crazy but when she becomes more calmer in this movie her acting really starts to shine. Helping him in this enterprise is the British playwright and screenwriter Christopher Hampton, whose apposite texts of the period include Total Eclipse (a story of the tempestuous relationship between Verlaine and Rimbaud) and Carrington (the Bloomsbury affair between Lytton Strachey and the artist Dora Carrington), as we ll as Mary Reilly, a reworking of the body horror classic Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Mostly it shows him in his den making faces wishing someone would strike him dead. I fear now, however, that my expectations may have been a bit too high. “A Dangerous Method” is so strange and unnerving precisely because the world it depicts is, for better and for worse, the only one we know. The story begins with the arrival of a beautiful, disturbed young woman, Sabina, at Jung's clinic. Jung was deeply ambivalent about the future, convinced on the one hand that America represented a liberating force and on the other that some apocalypse was about to be visited upon mankind. Here there was no pay off. The warning signs start popping up early and often in David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method. A Dangerous Method centered on the trials and tribulations of the founders of modern psychiatric care, as the world around them moves into the ominous shadow of the first Great War. Really? Abnormal animalistic behaviour, tormented psyches and sadomasochistic tendencies are all treated with his usual flair, tact, skill and sympathy. | A Good Film? Actually the characters could have been...I don't know...Sean and Julie, whoever, and there wouldn't be any difference. Photograph: Sony Pics/Everett/Rex Features, avid Cronenberg has long been recognised as a prime exponent of the psychological thrillers known as body horror movies, stories of terror involving parasites, metamorphoses, diseases, decomposition and physical wounds, such as, Commenting has been disabled at this time but you can still. Film: A Dangerous Method (2011). Past "Cronenberg" films has psychological aspect to it, but this deals with some well known psychologist and the relationship between them which intrigued me even more. I loved the idea of to greatest psychology minds working together on improving therapy methods and changing the approach to curing people of their traumas and problems. Enter the woman bridging and dividing them, of course in noir she would drive them mad with jealousy, and with Freud having no interest in women, she must do so via intellectual cuckoldry: taking Freud's patients, confessing it's his ideas she prefers. A Dangerous Method Review [TIFF 2011] Fair A Dangerous Method is beautifully crafted and abundant with subtext but it’s also sterile, dramatically turgid and at times, kind of a drag. Complex subject lightened up for the screen. Freud appears a weird old man, only caring for what the scientific community might think, but not as daring as we think he might have been, Jung is a pathetic unfaithful man, but with an inner fragility we cannot perceive fully. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 78% approval rating, based on 187 reviews with an average rating of 6.85/10. And yet this one seems a a dangerous method review with no direction whatsoever turning shaped. 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