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for America<\/em>:<\/p>\n

The new German historical drama \u201cGreat Freedom\u201d opens with surveillance footage of a public toilet. The industrial shuddering of the film projector provides the only soundtrack as we\u2014and someone else\u2014watch men enter the toilets and find sexual partners. This scene sets up the movie\u2019s plotline: Hans Hoffmann (Franz Rogowski) will return to prison after yet another violation of Paragraph 175, the law prohibiting sexual contact between men. But it also encapsulates the movie\u2019s themes, and the artistic techniques by which the writer and director Sebastian Miese illustrates those themes.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreat Freedom\u201d is about the longing for connection, under circumstances where connection with another person will be punished with isolation, no matter how squalid, brief, unintelligible or unfree\u2014not love exactly, or not always, but the result of the same need within us that drives us into love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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