Darkness everywhere
This is a solid piece of work, but it suffers from a surfeit of extremely dark scenes that were probably discernible on the big screen. But when you watch the DVD on small-screen TV, you have literally no idea what is going on in these scenes. The screen is just an opaque mass.
The critical five-minute ending in this movie is bathed almost entirely in black, and considerable drama is lost on the viewer. I knew what was happening, and I did see a couple of flashes of faces, but that's about it. This is a big problem with digital cameras -- they just don't capture darkness very well when transferred to much smaller screens.
Too bad about this technical stuff, because overall I think Der Freie Wille/Free Will is a good study of the deviant human mind -- not just of the rapist, but of the obsessed woman who loves him. The biggest problem for me was balance: we are given effective insights into why the woman behaves the way she does, but we know next to nothing about the man, except that he's a 'monster'. Not good enough.