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This is my first review for any title. I have watched a whole lot of movies, but never before felt so strongly an urge to share my opinion. I was actually looking forward to this one! I liked the underlying theme and always enjoy Moritz Bleibtreu, one of our few great actors. He did deliver an outstanding performance - the movie nonetheless didn't. Here's why: - The change of hearts of the main character is pretty much done in a cut from one scene in which he's still a self-loathing TV producer to the next where he isn't. Not much of a development there. It just sort of happens. The characters are all shallow and one-dimensional AND badly acted (except for the lead, which Bleibtreu plays as well as the retarded script allows him to)The great problem the movie is based on DOES NOT EVEN EXIST! They say that TV quotas control everything in TV and keep quality stuff from being broadcasted. Now that may be true to privately owned networks - in Germany though (as in other countries, too) it is stipulated by the law that public networks have to uphold a certain standard of "higher culture" and information in the public's interest. These networks are paid for directly by everyone whether they like it or not and do neither rely on advertising nor quotas! How can a TV producer achieve such a standing without understanding the difference between private and public networks? We all sure do! Maybe the writer should have researched just a tad more.Even if the fact I stated above wasn't true: A society is not defined by what is shown on TV. Even if there weren't public networks but nothing but trash and stupidity on every channel: There's still cinema, literature, music, any kinds of art one can access without a TV. Believe it or not: If you have read a book or magazine or visited an exposition someday without having had your TV telling you to, you rendered the movie's sentiment false by doing so.In the course of events Rainer and his fellow short-thinkers suspect the quotas to be rigged: Instead of a genuine elicitation they are instead forged by a few evil TV masterminds. While that is surprisingly not true, later in the movie the group around Rainer become just precisely what they feared to be the truth: a small group of people deciding on the quotas. How could nobody see that?! I thought "well, maybe that's where the movie shows us how they become corrupted by their newfound power" or something in the likes of that - but no, the moment passes and nobody seems to bat an eye.The movie states that there is bad and good TV. Nothing in between. The group never once fight about a broadcast some like whereas others don't. They just agree on everything, saving the movie from an interesting turn of events.When they find out that the quotas are in fact not rigged but very much accurate, they wonder how people could actually like and willingly watch trash TV. Rainer postulates that by having the networks shove trash into their audience's eyes for long enough, the viewers regarded the trash to be normal and started to demand it. Solution: Shove quality TV in their faces until the process repeats in favor of that. If this is true: Is such a society worth being saved? Is anyone who just blindly consumes like that really going to appreciate a screening of, say, Eraserhead? This is a horrible dystopia - and again, nobody seems to worry about that.After "the world is saved" and quality broadcasts have replaced the trash which was sent before, people can be seen going outside again - so now that it would actually be good to watch, they don't. What? Is all that's left to say.All in all, this movie is a case in point for "TV is stupid" and, following it's sentiment, should have kept itself from being made. Avoid if you are looking for an intelligent, well crafted and well written movie. Watch, if you also enjoy videos of people falling on their faces. This is basically the same.

This movie is what it claims to be! It does not claim to be realistic, it claims to be a funny revenge story on somewhat, what really needs to be revenged. This movie is not education, it's only a very small part and a wet revenge dream against the other part on the scale pan, we see everyday: The awful TV program, which became our religion. And on the other side, where it should be in balance, but is not - it's like that: Total Trash. Incredibly stupid game shows, which try to force people to call and to give money for nothing, like for example: "Yes now you can win even more, tell me when do you have birthday!... 21. of August?! Oh i am so sorry, you would have won if it were the 31. of June." Or somewhat - the next superstar model casting shows. - Like it's so good to get money for doing nothing. TV became our religion, so that we reconstruct our world from, what we see and believe to be real a few people tell us so (not very normal people, who have much free time to do so). And the problem is, that we partly have to believe that it is real, so i just don't get the critique of some people "Weingartner used trash to bury trash"... The problem is - our world is slowly becoming trashier everyday. So what. Hit it with it. It's just a nice and funny movie, which unfolds to show a bit how it could be and that supposed clarification is never total. This movie has the claim, what i would call, to have a nicotine patch effect on the media world. It's not as good as a cigarette (which is trash) but it tries to help against the pain. And i think this effect is the reason for bad comments. Not for me - Because of the message - i like it and give it a ten plus.

Hans Weingartner's third movie is a harsh but highly legitimate comment on today's television program.Unlike in "Die Fetten Jahre sind vorbei" you could find many things to criticize here - while the comparison to that last movie can hardly be avoided. Much of "Free Rainer" has obviously been inspired by the same concepts, which could make you question how much inspiration there was behind this movie at all. You will find many points that leave a rather ambivalent impression concerning realism - the ending has to be called "fantasy like". At few points does the movie really convince with its' optimistic idea of how the characters and the whole scenario develops.So what makes "Free Rainer" worth watching? Simple as often: It's the message behind all of this - which can only be understood as a comment on today's world of television. And as for this comment: There has since long not been said anything more important in a movie! Weingartner's portrait of a sick and sickening life standard drawn by the TV world is very close to reality. The rather negative way in which the TV executives appear might even be called too optimistic - while in the movie they seem just to be immoral and very well knowing what they do, reality might look somewhat worse: Most of the people in charge are probably acting in accordance to their very own moral principles.One critic wrote "Weingartner's movie is a crude comment on an even cruder television". Very right!

Someone said that if you want to know them you're funny, don't tell them you're funny, tell them a joke. In this case, the last laugh is on the audience. Hans Weingartner's movie is all telling and zero demonstration. Irrespective of temperament and motivation, his characters preach to the camera on the corruptive influence of mainstream television, the liberating powers of learning and movies as a moral institution. At no point in the story do we have any idea why the characters behave the way they do. Laughable. Three reasons to see "Free Rainer" anyway: Rainer's initial display of road rage that leaves even a group of short-tempered skinheads green with fear, an amusing portrayal of a nameless millionaire's wife, and the very lovely Elsa Gambard. It's obvious she can't act, but with face and grace like that, she should have no trouble at all finding work as a model. - Guest appearance by Sarah Kuttner. God knows what's gotten into her.