This semi-biopic feels a bit too polished and smooth to come from an iconoclast and transgressor like Cronenberg.
His depiction of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung also seems like a dialectic that could serve as the legend to a road map of his creativity.
Are his stories objectively diagnostic or actively therapeutic? Is there a single answer to explain what he does with his stories?
This movie trails off with a title-card coda rather than a more satisfying resolution or catharsis between the two psychologists’ perspectives.
Keira Knightley is stuck with an impossible role, sort of a real-life psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein, and a catalyst for both Freud and Jung’s collaboration and their tragic conflict.
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