Title: A Different Method
Genre: Film
Grade: B/B+
Notable People: Michael Fassbinder, Vito Mortensen, Kiera Knightly
Review: wow- a tale filled with analysis, fixation, hysteria, and dueling founders of psycho-babble…what’s not to like. The story of Freud and Jung’s early relationship at turn of 20th century Vienna. Knightly is their famous mega-hysterical, early abused and hyper sexual patient to become the first recipient of Jung’s psychoanalysis. Fassbinder and Mortensen do an admirable job on the competing giants and Knightly is wonderfully exotic and erotic as the object of their fixations. You’d have to see this movie five times to keep up with the dialog and analysis. Mandatory viewing for those of us who have dabbled in the science of the mind.