Dangerous Method,a film starring Keira Knightley,is about the beginnings of psychoanalysis,when Sigmund Freud (played by Viggo Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) were trying to figure out the best techniques for teasing revelations from the reluctant subconscious of a disturbed patient. The analysand,is a young Russian woman named Sabina Spielrein,played by Knightley. The movie begins in medias neurosis,with Spielrein,visibly distraught,making faces and touching herself in peculiar ways as Jung patiently tries to elicit something coherent from her disconnected utterances. The film shows what shrinks were like before they became stereotypes: doctors like Freud and Jung were genuinely trying to cure hysterical women,but were also experimenting on them,with ambiguous results. Drake,the rapper and singer sailed to No. 1 on the pop music charts last week with 631,000 copies of his latest release,Take Care sold. That was less than the 700,000 that some chart-watchers had been expecting (or hoping for),but it was still the third-biggest opening of the year,behind Lady Gaga and Lil Wayne. Justin Biebers Under the Mistletoe climbed one spot to No. 5 with 84,000 units. Glee: The Christmas Album Volume 2 ,the latest in the torrent of releases from the show Glee,opened at No. 6 with 71,000. Adeles 21,by far the best selling album of the year,sold 113,000 copies. The album has now passed Michael Jacksons Bad for the most consecutive weeks in the Top 5,Billboard reported,and its total sales for the year stand at 4.5 million. John C Reilly,the 46-year-old Oscar nominated actor,proves the theory that talent can,and occasionally will,win out. A big,burly Chicagoan,a guy with a craggy face and a rough voice,he would seem to be destined to play villains henchmen all day,every day. Yet hes mastered the art of playing the Everyman and has darted across the film landscape,pinballing between dramas and comedies,indie features,supporting roles and even the occasional lead,with credits ranging from Casualties of War (1989),The Thin Red Line (1998) and Chicago (2002) to Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) and Cyrus (2010). His career continues to barrel along,with two releases,We Need to Talk about Kevin and Carnage,coming up.
