Great Freedom is Sebastian Meise’s first feature film after 9 years with Franz Rogowski’s incredible performance and the winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at Cannes from Austria. It is presenting the development process of Germany against homosexuality with bold scenes, while actually dragging us into an issue that is difficult to discuss today.
Our film travels about 35 years between the 40s and 70s onto various prison times of our character, Hans, with a considerably successful time loop. Time transitions usually take place in dark themes. These transitions begin when our other main character, Viktor, sends a friction match to Hans’ cell in 1968, and eventually, we can understand why Hans was crying. After this scene, we see that in their relationship that started with a match, they shed light on each other’s paths in dark times. Even later, we witness this match metaphor again when Victor uses it to clean up his Nazi Camp past by making a new tattoo, which is also their first rapprochement.
The development of these two characters in the movie is impressive and actually quite different from each other. But what they have in common is “sexuality”. For…
