Intimacy

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A Dangerous Method

Tweet Review by Dean Duncan Jun 10, 2015 @deanduncan63

Saw #ADangerousMethod. A decorous (with exceptions!) costume drama, from this past master of film mayhem? Well …

… I’m remembering that Mel Brooks co-produced The Elephant Man (1980), that the arch-vulgarian & …

… the body-fascinated/horrified David Lynch actually have a lot in common. So, too, here …

… Cronenberg has been seriously and substantially considering the utter centrality of sexuality, so this dialectical dialogue …

… ‘twixt Freud & Jung, w’ the rather superb Knightly/Spielrein as a distillation, synthesis & apotheosis of both, makes a lot of sense.