Tuesday, January 31, 2012

A Dangerous Method

Viggo Mortenson, Keira Knightly d/ David Cronenberg

Freud and Jung at the dawn of the 20th century...when psychoanalysis was emerging onto the world scene. Some of this was focused on the theoretical or procedural differences between them but most of the film centered on KK's character and her relationships with the two men.

KK played a Russian who at first was raving and for me she was acting out of her range. I was never able to see her as a person...she was always an actor trying to pretend. This was true even when she was just being a Russian woman. This was a fatal blow to this film since she was on screen most of the time.

The two male leads were OK but their conflict was so restrained it seemed to evanesce into nothingness. By the end I just didn't care about any of this and was glad when it was over.

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