"Dangerous Method"/A Dangerous Method (2001) is a film that directly puts psychoanalytic theory on the big screen. The film mainly describes the academic differences between Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and his proud disciple Jung (Michael Fassbender) in the process of psychological research. The emotional entanglement between Jung and Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) was an important factor in Jung's eventual parting ways with Freud.
Sabina is an important character in the play. She herself has gone through the transition from a psychiatrist to a psychotherapist. In the process, her interactions with Jung not only made Jung increasingly question Freud's authority, but also witnessed his transformation from a psychiatrist to a patient suffering from mental illness (depression). Process. In the film, Sabina was originally a patient held by Jung and the object of his theoretical experiments. Later, her talent for psychology led her to become Jung's assistant, eventually completing a psychology research course and qualifying as a therapist. At the same time, Jung gradually put himself into the research object. From the beginning of agreeing with Freud's theory of sexuality, to later questioning the limits of the theory of sexuality, his own sexual experience when he interacted with Sabina became his own psychological research sample. However, the movie fails to give sufficient explanations on the transition of time and space, and as a result, the characters (especially Sabina) in the play appear very jumpy.
Perhaps it is related to the majors of the three protagonists. The whole film explores the individual's understanding of authority from the perspective of sexual psychology. This was supposed to be a good entry point for writing a movie review. But when I actually started writing, I found that there were too many pitfalls. Since psychosexual analysis is one of the commonly used research methods in film research, and several main characters in the film are real psychologists in history, it is easy to make the analysis of this film into a correct The elaboration of Freud and Jung's theories and the analysis of the characters can easily become a gossip index to the lives of the three. In other words, it's easy to lose the movie while reviewing it if you're not careful. As a result, I wanted to start with the psychosexual analysis method commonly used in film studies, but I didn't know how to comment on this film about psychosexual research.
The film basically adopts a flat and straightforward structure. The linear arrangement basically covers the creation and development of Jung's analytical psychology, and the process from his admiration to Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, to his break with it. Perhaps the writers were trying to make clear the similarities and differences between the two's theories, and the result is this chattering film that acts like a video textbook, from beginning to end. Audiences who do not understand psychology may be able to get a basic idea of psychoanalysis and analytical psychology after watching the film. But I personally think that if the audience can know the life background and knowledge system of Freud and Jung in advance, it will be more conducive to digest the film.
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