Year: 2006
Duration: 02:43:41
Directed by: Matthias Glasner
Actors: Jürgen Vogel, Sabine Timoteo, André Hennicke
Language: German | French (English subs)
Country: Germany
Also known as: A szabad akarat,Den fria viljan,Den frie vilje,El libre albedrío
Description of Free Will: Theo – sex maniac, who was arrested after three rapes, placed in a psychiatric hospital for a long nine years. Upon his release, Theo tries to overcome the hidden desire and obsession attempt to build a “normal” life, but was soon on his way there Neti, a girl with equally complex fate, and they have now been together trying to save each other. Another nice movie from Germany is called Guardian of the Frontier
Review of The Free Will: Violence on the screen, in its various forms – is not uncommon to attract attention (or makes yawn), collects the box office, forgotten and again poured onto the viewer into new sophisticated / entertainment forms. And, perhaps, it seems really non existent. And love and sex – in the same sequence. But not in the case of the movie “Free Will” by Matthias Glasner (prize Directors Guild of Germany), created in collaboration with Jürgen Vogel, who received the Silver Bear at the Berlinale in 2006 for his contribution to the creation of the film and the role of the rapist Theo.
Outbreaks of aggression … the terror of loneliness, violent masturbation, painful coexistence of man with his instincts and the opposite sex, lack of understanding of its essence and its existence in the outside world, the daily confrontation between weekdays and around – the birth of love, fragile tenderness, thirst-sex …
Sometimes, it seems that it’s all just words, so few of them in the film Der freie Wille. The camera slowly documenting everyday life in the almost total absence of color, carefully handles his characters, looking from the inside, and after a fairly detailed, spontaneous scenes of violence on a deserted beach, and perhaps hasty condemnation leads into the walls, in which socially adapted and given a chance, such as Theo . Clean-shaven and well-trained, and he meekly repeating a studied fact that over 9 years of stay in the hospital he invested in social services. workers and psychiatrists. He believes in it.
The camera again follows the beat of everyday life, snatching from the external environment, which is dominated by fashion and advertising, rastravlivayuschie hints: a poster at the bus stop with nudity, women in the campaign of short tops, club accumulation of bodies. It was as if everyone around says: hey, behave freely at home and immediately adds, but do not forget that you are at a party. And again, from within an irrational response to the contradictory situation of the environment, there is a vicious circle of men’s and women’s attempts to approach the deviation. Theo works, buys food, talks with former boyfriends-zekami, and to gain the upper hand over their bodies engaged in martial arts, weight training, watching porn and masturbates.
Background to the life of Theo is not shown, but most likely it does not have the cultural education. At the clinic he temporarily filled this lack of moral examples, but it can not completely come to terms with the new skin “normal person”, and repeats: “… it does not work.” On the one hand, the film does not achieve the viewer to sympathize with Theo and the other does not deprive the perpetrator of the human image, the director gradually introduce his role, letting him know that he is part of this society, which dominated enforcement standards and public opinion, and anything destructive / spontaneous in nature and avoids forced out as sick.
However, only one person in the center of the story, Theo, the camera gradually switched to the world of Nettie, and in the last quarter of the film focuses entirely on her experiences. For the first time we see her in the relationship with his father, and in which no previous history it is clear that paternal affection has taken the form of hidden sexual pressure. And at a time when the pressure is no longer possible to tolerate, Nettie breaks contact with his father, and come in daily accidents, detours leading Nettie and Theo together. Despite the communication difficulties and the fact that he does not like women, and it – men.
The moment when Theo is going, but does not force the shop assistant, which is planned by his sacrifice, is equivalent to the test of will. Is he prepared to resist impulsive desires to change your life? It would seem so. However, the second such test Theo does not hold, the destructive force of excessive excitement are so great that there is no question: get over yourself, gathering into a fist or overcome inhibitions and surrender to their instincts unchecked? Before that aggression could somehow regulate, giving it a more innocuous form, there is no influence of any resulting value judgments, nor the threat of going to jail. Theo repeatedly commits a crime, and it breaks the illusion of healing – and with it the relationship with Nettie.
Nearly three hours of intense viewing gone unnoticed due to the development of an interesting plot and authentic game Sabine Timoteo and Jürgen Vogel. A couple of days impressions of the film, first in thought about heroes, and their stories of love and in the end, and a toga that also have the freedom, will, and free will. Another film directed by Glasner, shot four years earlier, delusional – “stylish» «Fandango» did not finish.
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