A Dangerous Method chronicles a fictionalized version of the life
and times of Dr. Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Dr. Sigmund
Freud (Viggo Mortensen) from about 1904 to 1915 with a special focus
on one of Jung's patients named Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley)
who becomes Dr. Jung's mistress for a time. This mistress is a
disturbed young lass who wants to become a shrink in her own right
and successfully completes her studies to do so, but is also
mysteriously turned on sexually by corporal punishment that the now
corrupted Dr. Jung is only too happy to administer himself. Four
stars.
The movie ranks as "Iffy" because it has a total of 17 mildly
violent scenes, including stories of deaths and torture that occur
off screen. These scenes include: a woman is being transported
against her will inside a carriage and she is dragged out of her
carriage and into a mental institution, there is a story of a father
hitting a woman, there is a scene where a mad woman is being dragged
through the hallway and later given a bath in a tub equipped with a
straightjacket, there is a woman's story of her being beaten by her
father, there is a story of a horse falling from a crane, there is a
story about a father who wants his son to be institutionalized,
there is a story of a patient's suicide, a man spanks a woman for
"pleasure", a woman slices a man's face with a letter opener, the
woman is spanked again, a man falls down and loses consciousness,
there is a story of a very destructive tidal wave and flood, and
there are three real life accounts of how Freud and Jung's two
mistresses met their fates in WWII.
The previews include: one somewhat violent commercial sponsored by
Variety children's charity and one nonviolent commercial sponsored
by http://www.stjude.org as
well as a violent preview for The Iron Lady, a somewhat violent
preview for Thin Ice and nonviolent previews for The Best Exotic
Marigold Hotel, We Need To Talk About Kevin and Carnage.
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