I'll get this anomaly over and done with right from the start. This film echoes the storyline in many respects of the porn feature film "Gefangen" (Locked Up). Both feature naive younger guys taken in hand by an older inmate doing life for murder. The final scenes of both films are identical right up to the shop and decision taken.
This film is the more interesting in terms of teaching about an often hidden past however it was far heavier going than the other and I've given them the same marks despite their being completely different types of films. Great Freedom is saying far more and telling a far more profound tale yet it plodded at times for all that.
Some shocks that i hadn't known about. German inmates had the paragraph they were convicted under pinned to their cell door. The Americans reimprisoned "pink triangle" detainees after the war. It had never occurred to me that gay camp inmates had a tattooed number on their arms.
The acting here was fine and the actors made the tragedy of their lives hard to watch. A good film but not a great one though.
This film is the more interesting in terms of teaching about an often hidden past however it was far heavier going than the other and I've given them the same marks despite their being completely different types of films. Great Freedom is saying far more and telling a far more profound tale yet it plodded at times for all that.
Some shocks that i hadn't known about. German inmates had the paragraph they were convicted under pinned to their cell door. The Americans reimprisoned "pink triangle" detainees after the war. It had never occurred to me that gay camp inmates had a tattooed number on their arms.
The acting here was fine and the actors made the tragedy of their lives hard to watch. A good film but not a great one though.