Genre: Biography / Drama / Thriller Director(s): David Cronenberg Release Date: 10 November 2011 Movie rating: 6.4

What do you get when you put Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender together on the screen? You get an amazing movie that is capable of captivating anyone's attention with not problem at all. This movie is called A Dangerous Method. The storyline is is placed in the time of our greatest psychiatrists, but at the time when they were at their very beginnings. Dr. Carl Jung, who is played by Michael Fassbender, is getting an unusual patient- young and passionate woman named Sabina Spielrein, who is portrayed by Keira Knightley. As she is suffering from hysteria, she is first hospitalized and then subjected to a very special talk therapy, invented by Dr. Sigmund Freud. Over the course of her treatment, Sigmund and Carl develop a very strong relationship, almost like father and son, because of the constant writing to each other and consulting with each other. As the time goes by and Sabina seems to be getting better, we discover that she and Carl Jung, who is married, are having an affair and are lovers for quite some time. But, it all takes its own turn as Carl drifts apart from the Freud's theory in psychoanalysis, which states that it can only reveal the patients problems, but not cure them as well. And so, the battle between these two brilliant minds in the field of psychology and psychoanalysis. This intense and very life like thriller drama that is based on biographical elements was released in November 2011.

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