MaestroReviews

Deb and I are artists, painters actually. We go see films as often as once a week. That's right, we go to the theater and sit in a dark room with strangers to see movies. We rarely rent. We like "little" movies, foreign and documentary films. We try to stay away from mainstream and blockbusters whenever possible, but a couple sneak in each year. We seek out the obscure. We try to avoid violent movies, and that really limits our choices, most film makers seem to think violence makes a story interesting.
I try not to give anything away in the reviews, but offer an honest reaction.
We rate them 1~10, 10 being highest.

Sunday, January 29, 2012

A Dangerous Method

Deb 6 Me 6

This was pretty neat. Sigmund Freud invented psychoanalysis but it was Carl Jung who first employed it and this is the story of that first patient's journey. So we get to watch Freud, who is supposed to the "old man" but looks quite young and Jung who is the most deadpan doctor I've yet to see (not professionally, just on the screen). The patient is a chick who might be guilty of overacting a bit, but the ideal candidate for this revolutionary procedure. Jung's inability to get too wound up about much of anything makes them a good pair. And being a pair is where the story leads, with plenty of action that might make Freud beam. I liked it. These are folks you've heard about forever and it was nice to see them interacting, exchanging ideas and hanging on to their developed perceptions of what makes people tick. It held my interest just fine.

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