FREE ON YOUTUBE Mathias Glasner - The Free Will

FREE ON YOUTUBE  These are dark Corona times these days and a friend from Beijing wrote me just last week that we will probably all die not from Corona but from obesity in front of the TV. Is that so? Anyway, I have decided to post a free YouTube stream every day. What can you do when your video store has to close down for the first time in 20 years? The Free Will is a character study of two people who are desperately fighting for a life they will probably never be able to achieve. Theo (Jürgen Vogel) is a relatively sensitive serial rapist. Right at the beginning he attacks a cyclist whom he sexually abuses. The film is mainly interested in the question the title suggests: Is Theo still acting of his own free will or is he a slave to his impulses? A question of fate and freedom. After nine years in a psychiatric hospital, Theo is to be reintegrated into society. But again and again he threatens to become violent - and then Theo falls in love with Nettie (Sabine Timoteo). She moved out of her father's house and we know that Nettie was abused there. Then she meets Theo, who is irrepressibly horny for her. How did Theo become the way he is? And what happened to Nettie in the past? All of which prepares the ominous final act... Director Mathias Glasner first puts us in Theo's perspective, then takes in Nettie. Although his actions are horrible, the film tries to arouse empathy for Theo. Because Theo just doesn't manage to control himself. The Free Will is a meditation of two lonely, damaged souls after consolation. Both are powerless, united in love and death.