A Dangerous Method — Movies for Lawyers — The Act Of Communication Point Of View
From Katherine:
How I missed Christopher Hampton’s stage play The Talking Cure is beyond me – but luckily I didn’t miss A DANGEROUS METHOD, his screenplay adaptation. Actually, it is a double adaptation, I guess, since he adapted John Kerr’s The Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein.
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. That’s one for each of the three wonderful actors in this piece – Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender as Spielrein, Freud and Jung respectively. The story of the foreparents of modern psychology is captivating and filled with pride, envy, love, fear – oh – yes — and the lust is not for the faint of heart. It’s told in these beautifully rendered two person scenes that appear to be completely pristine – perhaps because whenever two people are talking together there is complete silence. No soundtrack. Life flows along at the pace of another time – early twentieth century Europe.
This is a must see for all attorneys and trial consultants. We are all the descendants of Freud and Jung as we wend our way through preparing witnesses, figuring out judges, analyzing jurors, getting into the minds of the other side. Why not get a fabulous glimpse into how it all began? It is the Psychology 101 class I thought I was signing up for freshman year at Illinois Wesleyan. Instead, we made rats bar press for a semester. What can I say? What I learned from this “living history” in two hours is much more valuable a lesson to me both as a theatre artist and as a trial consultant than all those days with Pink Eye (of course I named our team’s rat) could ever have been.
TIP: When do you NOT use psychology when you try a case?
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