What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word “unfreedom”? Inability to move in space? Moral pressure? Inability to take full control of yourself? We have collected for you several series exploring different facets of this concept.
“Gypsy”
“Free with a clear conscience” is about her, the heroine of the psychological drama “Gypsy”, a psychotherapist who preferred the unconscious to the rational and professional.
The same conversations in the sessions. From month to month. Without end and meaningful result… The adult daughter avoids Rebecca, hiding from her literally, physically, because Rebecca knows better how she, her daughter, should live. And Rebecca suffers. And Sam is suffering because Sydney left him. And Allison suffers – because the drug addict let her poor mother down …
And she, Jean, a psychotherapist, cannot help them – after all, none of her patients wants to hear the voice of reason, everyone runs on a short leash from their unconscious, ambitions, addictions. Jean is powerless. But she is also fascinated by the freedom that her clients enjoy on their short leash, swimming in the ocean, albeit destructive, but genuine passions.
There are no people in the world who are more constrained by behavioral canons than a psychotherapist – he walks on the thin ice of human dramas
Her own life is arranged and prosperous – her husband, a kind careerist, her daughter goes to a good private school … There is no place for passion. And the psychotherapist rushes into the lives of clients like a whirlpool, secretly interfering with them, mixing with the flows of local emotions, surrendering to the will of new waves of his own.
And recognizing herself – the one she really is in those moments when she does not feel a third-party look on herself. Able to throw the truth in the face of a hypocrite. Finally understanding her own daughter. Free from marriage conventions, social function and professional ethics.
But there are no people in the world who are more constrained by behavioral canons than a psychotherapist – he walks on the thin ice of human dramas. Therefore, the authors of “Gypsy” need a heroine from this workshop.
It’s harder for her to find her freedom. It’s easier for us. And we are still afraid.
“The Handmaid’s Tale”
This dystopia is worth watching if only to feel what it is – complete lack of freedom, when you are deprived of all rights, including even the right to dispose of the body, and are forced to produce offspring for higher ranks.
“Shtisel”
The Israeli series for the first time allowed viewers to look at the world of ultra-Orthodox Jews as the world of ordinary people living under strict laws. But it is their severity that forces the hero, the son of the Jerusalem Patriarch Shtisel, to search for forbidden meanings.