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Director's Statement
The theme of interpersonal dependence has always fascinated me and this was one of the impulses to develop the main characters in "Free Radicals".
I consciously imagined various combinations of people from quite different worlds who appear to share the same traits: dependence an others on one hand, and an utter loneliness on the other. All of them fight for something or someone, while none of them seem to understand exactly what it is they really need. Yet, there is strong vitality about them, even when they are in the throes of depression. The amazing way they pick themselves up and carry on, bouncing back.
We are all trapped in intricate relationships. To better depict these systems of relationships in a contemporary setting I had to create a complex world with ambivalent characters. The question of the existence of good and evil is expressed through them, as well as the complexity of cause and effect.
When I was writing the script, it became clear to me that in my previous films people had often looked up to the sky. You felt their yearnings. In this film we often shoot from the perspective of looking down which suggests imprisonment. "Free Radicals" is less about this longing to be somewhere else than the thought of finding happiness (or not) with what you already have.