Scandalous Movie Review: A Dangerous Method
A Dangerous Method (2011) Directed by David Cronenberg Produced by Jeremy Thomas Screenplay by Christopher Hampton Based on his play The Talking Cure (which was based on A Most Dangerous Method: the story of Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein by John Kerr published in 1993) Distributed by Universal/Lionsgate/Sony Pictures Classics Cast: Viggo Mortensen as Sigmund Freud Michael Fassbender as Carl Jung Keira Knightley as Sabina Spielrein Vincent Cassel as Otto Gross Sarah Gadon as Emma Jung André Hennicke as Eugen Bleuler My thoughts: I saw this film over a week ago at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, a small art house theatre here in New York, on Martin Luther King day. Instead of writing my review immediately, I decided to let the movie simmer awhile. I'd also been going through some personal stuff which took my focus away from writing for a bit. I have to admit that my views on the film are somewhat colored by the fact that I have always leaned more towards Jung's theo