Drive-By Movie Review: A Dangerous Method

This is the movie with Michael Fassbender and Viggo Mortensen as Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. It probably should have been called "That Movie with Michael Fassbender and Viggo Mortensen as Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud." Keira Knightly is in it, and this should matter more as the centerpiece, but mostly she was distracting; her portrayal of hysteria involves doing a damn good impression of a lantern fish and all of her sexy scenes with Fassbender brought more crazy than hot. Like literally my thought was "I know this is supposed to be a kind of romancey thing, but doc, you are not only being STUPID here, you're being all kinds of WRONG, and not even in the FUN way!"

BTW, it turns out that judicious spankings from Michael Fassbender will enable you to get a graduate degree in psychology. I am contemplating changing majors now.

At any rate, the lack of chemistry between Fassbender and Knightley, or possibly just odd direction, makes the whole thing way more dry than it should have been. Somehow I magically think that if Fassbender could have shaved off the pencil 'stache and put on his rockin' outfit from James Eyre then the sexual repression would have magically worked. So.

Basically, this is my way of telling the internet I need Charles/Erik with kinky psychiatry twist. C'mon, people, do something for me.

(Bonus points if you see what I did there. ;))