We are unabashed David Cronenberg fans in these parts. It partially explains why there is so much love around these parts for films like Splice. It is true that the auteur director has been moving beyond his body-horror salad-days for more subdued takes on his mind/flesh themes, and we love that too, particularly because he has adopted Viggo Mortensen to star in his films. And Mortensen is getting a chance to play Sigmund Freud alongside the wonderful Michael Fassbender who will play Carl Jung in his latest film, A Dangerous Method (I prefer the less generic sounding original title, “The Talking Cure” but this one might get more butts in seats along with its dreamy casting) which is based on a play by Christopher Hampton.
The film will also star Vincent Cassel and Keira Knightley and it cannot come out too soon. Cronenberg does dueling psychologists. I have The Prestige level expectations!
The Playlist has more details, as well as some potential future Cronenberg projects and were the source of the wonderful comparison image of the actors to the real-life counterparts.
Whoa. That’s all I’ve got. Whoa.
This should be an interesting film, but the real story
about Jung is his final conclusions about mind and
matter. Jung worked for many years with Professor
W. Pauli, Nobel laureate-physics, (1932-1958) and
their letters were published under title, “atom and
archetype.” The main theme is Jung’s belief that
we exist in an “archetypal reality” i.e., not of cause
and effect, but acausal in nature. Search, Synchronicity
Principle.
Freud opened the door of the dark house. Jung
lifted the whole darn house, and saw the foundation
of life….