I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall when the Producers of this movie first did the rounds looking for funding.
"Hey, we've got a great idea for a film that takes a long, dark look at the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud that gave birth to psychoanalysis". Silence.
"And listen to this, we think it could be a great vehicle for [smirk] Keira Knightley". More silence.
"Think of it, we could have Keira screeching, screaming and cackling interminably as the disturbed patient over which some deadly dull doctors, played by, let's say Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender, debate for months on end".
Watching Knightley's face twitch as she grimaces her way through a Russian-but-sounding-bad-American accent makes me wonder why this "intense relationship" between Jung and Freud didn't give birth to a sharp slap across the face as the recommended method for dealing with people like her.
I know I'm stretching the point here a bit, but when one thinks of
"Thriller", A Dangerous Method should probably be as far away from one's
mind as, er, marshmallows.
Maybe that gulf between this film, and any action, kept making me wish director David Cronenberg would revert to type and have someone's head explode.
I got the movie - it's focus on deep, thoughtful conversation, but that didn't make it enjoyable on any other plane.
Of course, my predilection for poking fun at thinks is worthy of analysis too. Or you could just ask my wife what's wrong with me. She has tons of suggestions.
Hello, welcome to the psychiatric hotline:
If you are obsessive-compulsive; please press 1 repeatedly.
If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2 for you.
If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, and 5
If you are paranoid delusional, we know who you are and what you want. Just stay on the line so we can trace the call.
If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a little voice will tell you which number to press.
If you are depressive, it doesn't matter which number you press. No one will answer.
If you are obsessive-compulsive; please press 1 repeatedly.
If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2 for you.
If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, and 5
If you are paranoid delusional, we know who you are and what you want. Just stay on the line so we can trace the call.
If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a little voice will tell you which number to press.
If you are depressive, it doesn't matter which number you press. No one will answer.
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