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A Dangerous Method (2011)
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Ratings: 6.6/10 from 26,716 users
Metascore:
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Reviews: 122 user | 269 critic | 41 from Metacritic.com A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis. Director:David Cronenberg |
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Suffering from hysteria, Sabina Spielrein is hospitalized under the care of Dr. Carl Jung who has begun using Dr. Sigmund Freud's talking cure with some of his patients. Spielrain's psychological problems are deeply rooted in her childhood and violent father. She is highly intelligent however and hopes to be a doctor, eventually becoming a psychiatrist in her own right. The married Jung and Spielrein eventually become lovers. Jung and Freud develop an almost father-son relationship with Freud seeing the young Jung as his likely successor as the standard-bearer of his beliefs. A deep rift develops between them when Jung diverges from Freud's belief that while psychoanalysis can reveal the cause of psychological problems it cannot cure the patient. Written by garykmcd
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(Italy) See more »Also Known As:
Eine dunkle Begierde See more »Box Office
Budget:
€15,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
€438,556 (Italy) (2 October 2011) (121 Screens)Gross:
$5,702,083 (USA) (29 April 2012)Company Credits
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According to Keira Knightley, at first she didn't know how to play her character's hysteria. When she read some of Spielrein's notes she noticed the woman described her condition as being like "a demon or a dog". Knightley then started to pull faces and contacted David Cronenberg through Skype to show him the results until they both agreed on one. See more »Goofs
Anachronisms: The sailboat that Jung's wife gives him is clearly very modern with Dacron sails, nylon rigging and stainless steel cleats, none of which existed at the time. See more »Quotes
Carl Jung: Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable... just to be able to go on living.See more »
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