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Genre | Drama, Thriller |
Format | Subtitled |
Contributor | John Kerr, Viggo Mortensen, Keira Knightley, David Cronenberg, Christopher Hampton, Vincent Cassel, Sarah Gadon, Michael Fassbender, Jeremy Thomas See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 39 minutes |
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From acclaimed director David Cronenberg (A History of Violence) comes a dark tale of sexual and intellectual discovery, featuring two of the greatest minds of the 20th century. Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender, Shame) has just begun his psychiatric career, having been inspired by the great Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen, The Lord of the Rings trilogy). When a mysterious and beautiful woman (Keira Knightley, Atonement) goes under Jung’s care, Jung finds himself crossing the line of the doctor/patient relationship, causing great conflict with his mentor and making Jung question his own morality in the process.
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With a lucid analyst's eye, director David Cronenberg turns his steady gaze toward a trio of brilliant people in the early, and somehow defining, years of the 20th century. In Zurich, a young psychoanalyst named Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) takes on an intellectually gifted but deeply neurotic young woman, Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), as a patient. Through the course of a lengthy analysis, their relationship takes a turn for intimacy, despite professional policy against such encounters. Meanwhile, Jung is entwined in another important relationship, with psychoanalysis founder Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), whose enthusiasm about Jung being the golden boy of the science will eventually dim. What's bracing in Cronenberg's keen reading of this situation, based on Christopher Hampton's script, is that no aspect of this situation is more important than any other; the sexual tumbling between Jung and Spielrein might provide a few hotsy moments, but the careful lines traced between Freud's pragmatic wisdom and Jung's idealistic ventures into the mystic are equally significant. The tenor of the acting is similarly well judged; Fassbender and Mortensen are finely drawn, while Knightley's explosions are necessary for uncomfortable contrast. (Vincent Cassel contributes a few memorable scenes as the rule-breaking Otto Gross, a talented but unbalanced analyst himself.) If you go to movies to turn your brain off, go somewhere else; there are enough ideas loose in this superb film to keep you up at night, in a good way. --Robert Horton
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 3.2 ounces
- Item model number : 1201
- Director : David Cronenberg
- Media Format : Subtitled
- Run time : 1 hour and 39 minutes
- Release date : March 27, 2012
- Actors : Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel, Sarah Gadon
- Subtitles: : Spanish, English
- Producers : Jeremy Thomas
- Studio : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B006PTL1GC
- Writers : Christopher Hampton, John Kerr
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #23,245 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #627 in Mystery & Thrillers (Movies & TV)
- #2,223 in Drama Blu-ray Discs
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The primary focus of the film was divided between the psychological struggles of a brilliant young woman and the sexual and intellectual struggles of a brilliant psychologist attempting to forge a model of human consciousness and unconsciousness while at the mercy of his own desires and impulses. A secondary theme was the professional scientific and personal relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carol Jung over a 7 year period critical to the development of the field of psychoanalysis.
Carl Jung was very familiar with the work of Sigmund Freud and began writing to him about there mutual interests in abnormal psychology. But the two men were very different in many ways and these differences eventually lead to tension in their relationship. The film does a credible job of contrasting Freud, an Austrian Jewish physician, and the wealthy Jung, a privileged Swiss psychiatrist. Early in the film Jung begins to use Freud's method of analysis whereby the psychiatrists sits behind the patient so as to reduce projection onto the psychiatrist and to create a more ambiguous sensation for the patient so that they can actually focus on their own projections and images without looking to the therapist for approval or disapproval. Jung complains that Freud writes much about the intellectual side of the analysis without giving many details as to the actual implementation of the methodology, thus early in the film Jung's independent thought is demonstrated.
Freud saw Sabrina Spielrein as a patient when she was 19 years old and published her case history as the case of Sabrina S. It is Emma Jung in the film who tells the viewer that surely this Sabrina S written about by Freud is the same Sabrina Spielrein who has been admitted to the psychiatric hospital under the care of Dr. Jung.
Michael Fassbender does an outstanding job as he plays Carl Jung. The character of Jung is pivotal in this film and Jung is a brilliant but conflicted human being. Jung was an outstanding genius, comparable to the genius of Freud, but he loses his bearings when he begins an affair with Sabrina Spielrein. His attempts to gain control of himself and the relationship reveal his cold determination which Fassbender plays very well. Fassbender's athletic sexual physique appears to be ready to explode out of the tight Victorian clothing that binds him much as Jung's sexuality is exploding out of his overly controlled intellect. Jung may appear overly harsh, controlled and rejecting as he ends the affair with Spielrein but he was becoming unhinged from the ground upon which he had built his personal, intellectual and professional life.
Kira Knightly does a superb job of playing Sabrina Spielrein. Spielrein has neurotic tics that manifest when painful or conflicting memories emerge. The early scenes where Spielrein relates to Jung how often her father whipped her naked behind and then forced her to kiss his hand after the whipping are very powerful. As a child Spielrein would sometimes urinate in fear while being whipped and her father would whip her again for the urination. She now dreams of a catlike creature whispering into her ear as a slug like creature crawls on her lower back. Jung is able to connect that Spielrein would masturbate to images and memory of physical punishment and that pain had thus become eroticized for her. Knightly was able to portray mental illness, repressed eroticism and intellectual acuity in one outstanding performance.
Vincent Cassel deserves mention for the part he plays as Dr. Otto Gross, another brilliant but unstable mind in an addict. However it is in conversation with the way-out Gross that Jung comes to terms with his passion for a brilliant and beautiful patient.
Viggo Mortensen plays Sigmund Freud with careful understatement. Freud believed that in Jung he had finally found the champion, the heroic son, who would carry his theories forward. Much of their relationship in the film vibrates between a father-son relationship, a mentor-mentee relationship, and a professional competition. Of course the scene is included where Freud and Jung share dreams on the voyage to America and Freud tells Jung that one dream he can not reveal since he would lose his `authority' which Jung relates as the point where Freud lost all authority for him. It is to the film's credit that it includes the discussions between Freud and Jung on strategy whereby Freud wished their work to remain focused, concentrated, demonstrable, and repeatable whereas Jung was becoming more expansive, overly inclusive, and willing to explore paranormal experiences that are almost impossible to demonstrate or repeat under controlled conditions. Both strategies may advance scientific thought but the tensions eventually disrupt their personal and professional relationships.
Eventually the tables turn as Spielrein emerges from her neurosis and becomes a brilliant psychoanalyst in her own right, mentored and complimented by Sigmund Freud.
Thus this 99 minute films is about two complex themes; the development, expression, and repression of sexual desires as demonstrated in the relationship of Spielrein and Jung and the creation, translation and re-creation of complex scientific ideology as demonstrated in the relationship of Jung and Freud.
Dr. Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen, who gives an excellent portrayal) is following as closely as can be to conventional thinking within the 'new study', which has vastly gained in popularity. Freud is a monogamous family man with several children. He is now in his fifties and well-respected in the medical community although is constrained to have his theories accepted in the society of the day. He must conform to a certain degree as to not step on too many toes for the 'new thinking' to be fully accepted.
Into Jung's peaceful hospital setting arrives the extreme patient, Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightly) who appears severely ill while contorting, screaming and resisting with all she has within her. After a short course of settling in, Jung begins to work with her while talking being seated directly behind her. He is asking questions while she is raging and convulsing in her chair. Dr. Jung is trying to get to the origin of her illness as she tries so hard to answer the questions, suggestions, and to remember what has happened to her.
Through a long journey of psychoanalysis for Sabina, a calmer and studious time in the facility, and a job of sorts working alongside with the testing that Dr. Jung is doing. He is finally able to reach her and to help turn her life back around after the horrific abuse she has sustained. He is also able to see within the drive she has of becoming a Dr. of Psychiatry herself, and encourages her forward. During her healing and beginning medical school, they become the best of friends and confidants.
After a couple of years Dr. Jung goes to Vienna to visit his mentor Sigmund Freud and to speak on many issues. Dream interpretations, the patient Sabina, and "The Talking Cure" are discussed as the two colleagues begin to get to know each other much better and with a strong mutual respect. They begin writing letters to each other, discussing new insights, even testing out dream interpretations on each other. Shortly after these two giant minds meet, Jung crosses the line and begins an aggressive affair with Sabina just as Freud had been suspecting all along. The rumor mill has been aptly turning with Freud although questioning Jung at that same time was kept to himself.
The correspondence of Dr. Freud and Dr. Jung runs a course of approximately seven years. The differences of opinion and the two doctors are also forced to realize just how different they are in their lifestyles. Freud is Jewish while Jung is not at this significant time in history along with Jung being more of a visionary of Freudian archetypes and Freud more scientific to remain medically relevant within the limitations of the time. The relationship also goes on between Jung and Sabina for the course of the movie with the addition of love, guilt, marriage, pregnancies and several other themes which are introduced and explored. All three of the main actors present an exceptional portrayal of each doctor.
I found this movie very astute. Wonderfully driven with dialog and full of interesting theories of what was accepted during this time in history. It is definitely an entertaining vehicle for learning some things about yourself in and through the doctor's discourse.
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Spielrein ist auch der Anlass, mit S.Freud (Viggo Mortensen) Kontakt aufzunehmen, nach deren Lehre er mit Spielrein arbeitete, Er bringt die inteligente junge Frau auch dazu, Medizin zu studieren. Während ihres Studiums nimt Spielrein wieder Kontakt zu Jung auf und beginnt mit ihm eine Beziehung. Dass er sich auf ihre Avancen ("Normalerweise geht die Initiative vom Mann aus!")einlässt, hängt sicher mit seiner Therapie des Psychiaters Otto Gross (Vincent Cassell) zusammen, der Koks-abhängige Mann lebt seine Wünsche aus, ihre Unterdrückung halte er für ungesund, von Monogamie hält er nichts
Nach einiger Zeit beendet Jung, der mit einer reichen Frau verheiratet ist, mit dem zweiten Kind schwanger, die Beziehung, weil zunehmend Gerede im Umlauf ist, was seine berufliche Zukunft gefährden würde, worüber Spielrein enttäuscht und wütend ist. Sie wendet sich jetzt Freud zu, zwischen diesem und Jung treten ernsthafte Differenzen auf. Jung wirft Freud vor, alles unter dem Aspekt des Sexuellen zu sehen, Freud ist der Ansicht, Jungs Interesse für Telepathie unf Parapsychologie sei Munition für die gegner der Psychoanalyse, die sowieso schon iunter Beschuss stehe, was auch in 100 Jahren noch so sein werde.
Später trifft sich Sabina nochmals mit Jung und lässt sich von ihm krägtig den Allerwertesten mit einem Gürtel verprügeln. Sie heiratet schließlich als ausgebildete Psychoanalytikerin eine jüdischen Landsmann. Jung hat inzwischen eine Patientin als neue Geliebte.
Im Abspann erfahren wir, dass Gross 1919 verhungerte, Spielrein 1942 von deutschen Truppen beim Vormarsch mit zwei Töchtern erschossen wurde wie viele andere Juden auch. Freud starb 1939 im Asyl in England, C.G.Jung 1961 eines natürlichen Todes.
Der Film ist an authentisch wirkenden Drehorten und mit phantastischer zeitgemäßer Ausstattung, vor allem aber mit 3 großartigen Hauptdarstellern inszeniert, wobei de ie Beziehung Jung/Spielrein mehr im Vordergrund steht als die Treffen Jung/Freud. Die Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Jung und Freud erscheinen korrekt dargestellt, und auch die Beziehung zwischen Jung und Spielrein entspricht Fakten, bei den Details wie einer Liebesszene und dem Hinternversohlen mag künstlerisch Freiheit im Spiel sein. Vor allem wegen der drei Hauptdarsteller ist der Film sehr sehenswert.
Vielleicht kennt mancher dieses "Um-die-Ecke-gedacht-Rätsel noch nicht: Aufforderung an ein Hohlorgan, sich auf den Weg zu machen, den Vater der Psychoanalyse zu finden. ? ? ? Geh aus mein Herz und su-u-uche Freud!
Doc Halliday
I came to it having read a bit of Freud and a bit more of Jung, and was vaguely acquainted with their points of disagreement, but i was completely unprepared for the revelation of how their respective theories were shaped by their relationships, especially by Jung's relationship with Spielrein. Christopher Hampton's concise script and Cronenberg's impeccable direction create a vivid space in which the three leads, along with Sarah Gadon as Jung's wife and Vincent Cassel as Otto Gross, become living personalities grappling with challenges that are no less real today. It all looks beautiful on blu-ray, too! The result is a hugely entertaining film, and one you'll want to see again, just to witness (and maybe share in) the titanic struggles of soul that both Spielrein and Jung went through.
I've loved Cronenberg's more far-out creations such as Videodrome, The Fly, and Naked Lunch, but i'd have to say this is his best work yet. There's not much in the way of extras on this disk, but the edited interviews with him and the actors show how he's honed his art to the point that he's in complete control but also has complete trust in his actors. This is the perfect story for that kind of technique, as it creates just the right atmosphere for the whole film -- in a way, it's all about the psychological ambiguities and ambivalences of control (including self-control). A flawless work of art about people with fascinating flaws.
Fassbender, as Jung, does a competent job, but you feel he lacks the bluster and panache of the real Jung. There are plenty of videos online of Jung being interviewed, so there's no excuse for Fassbender not adopting more of Carl Jung's mannerisms and swagger. Instead, he plays Jung like a passive, indecisive, weak-willed man, which any Jungian knows is not what Jung was. In the trio of main performances, Fassbender comes off worst. He doesn't even try a Swiss accent, which surely cannot be that difficult to master for a professional actor. I had the impression that Fassbender was more concerned about showing his potential to be the next James Bond instead of truly embracing Jung's persona. What a pity, I'm sure the talent is there.
Mortensen, as Freud, on the other hand, is sublime; with perfect nuances to his speech and behaviour. His Freud carries real authority, laced with just enough of the arrogance and pomp that the real man indeed possessed. Knightley is convincing, nothing more, but that's enough. You do get the sense that she's got one eye on the awards season with this over-wrought performance though.
But it must be said, it's great to see Freud and especially Jung get the big Hollywood movie treatment. If it leads more people to the theories of Jung, especially, it will only be a good thing.
同監督作品の近作の中では派手さはありませんが何度も見たくなる作品です。満足です。