Sunday, April 29, 2012
A Dangerous Method (2011)
When
David Cronenberg -- master of exploding head psychological atom bombs, and
violence mixed with sex – said he was
making “A Dangerous Method,” the ménage a trois between pioneer
head-shrinks Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Sabina Spielrein, I was stoked. I wanted envelopes torched, singed paper ashes blown in the faces of prudes. So count me wanting, put
out, so to speak. Except for a few wha? spanking scenes, “Dangerous” is all talk, and I should not be surprised, as this was once called “Talking Cure.” Our focus
is on Spielrein, German Jew, wealthy, and hysterically
mad, put in the care of Jung (Michael Fassbender), the protégé of master head
doc Freud (Viggo Mortensen). Sabina bends Jung’s tight-starched collar, and
Freud feuds, and Word War I dawns, and Jung’s last scene has him going like Michael
Corleone’s last scene in “Godfather, Part II,” lawn chair and all. No burning desire,
no passion. Talk. Knightly’s accent grinds, and Mortensen’s
Freud has all the zing of Ask Jeeves, so it’s Fassbender’s show, and he’s damn
good, but a notch below “Shame,” the 2011 sex-obsessed flick that’s
all dangerous method. B-
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