The Free World

Enjoyed the movie , the actors are brilliant . The story touches your heart and hurts with the ending that restores hope . Would love to see more from this director .

I don't get these high ratings. Who would walk into work and find a woman out of her mind and covered in blood then throw her over your shoulder and being her home and hide her from the police? Even if your an ex con it's absurd..nothing good can come of it, not even a piece of azz. Lol. When they eventually do get caught he will be suspected of helping her kill her husband. They are sleeping together. It's just ridiculous. And making the main character a Muslim the writer/director want us all to know that all Muslims aren't bad. Yeah we know this. But just in case they didn't know a Muslim would not work with dogs. Dogs are nagis (impure) just like pigs are. And what he said about confession is just absurd. Not all Christians confess to others, it can help, but they only have to confess to God, like Muslims Allah. I'm an agnostic skeptic but I have studied religions. Muslims ask for forgiveness in there daily prayers. And it just dragged and the absurd decisions never ended. And all the police were immoral and dirty who persecuted him constantly. So unrealistic. Also if the man was a Christian it would be labeled a Christian film but since it's a Muslim it's revalatory and meaningful. I couldn't even finish it. Skip it unless you wanted to be frustrated and your a masochist.

First off all, I can't believe this low rating. Moss and Holbrook play their roles perfectly as two people who've been through the worse of it. I can't be sure, but it seems like the director allowed the actors the freedom to play off each other which created plenty of natural, raw moments. The camera work was wonderful; particularly, there's a scene with Holbrook on a bus and we just watch him and his expressions and it's a very telling moment that's captured seamlessly. We do feel for the characters even though their relationship can feel rushed at times. Overall, this is one of my favorite movies. I highly recommend it; the performances are ones to remember.

Starts with promise but quickly becomes unrealistic and improbable. It has no redeeming qualities and any message is totally obscured by the meaningless premise of the story.

I thought at first that this was another of my Netflix mistakes. I sometimes queue a DVD for fleeting reasons, and then, when the disk arrives, I wonder "why did I want to watch this one?" I thought the lead actor was insanely good. Even the parts where he sullenly has nothing to say, his body language spoke volumes. I thought he was perfectly credible as a wounded man-child, having been falsely convicted in his early teens of something that I don't think was ever specified. The female lead was also the victim of undeserved violence, a battered wife. I liked the way the screenplay took a while to make that clear. My only complaint is that there were one or two spots in the film where the pacing got really slow. Since these 2 characters weren't free to move around a lot because of the threats against them, there were many cloistered moments during which they could only speak - but then again, neither wanted much to talk due to their situation/condition.

Some bogus review on rotten tomatoes says, and I quote the movie doesn't know what it wants to be" like it needs a label to what satisfy some guy that uses words to describe an artists work "while Lew certainly has some talent behind the camera, the structure, pacing, and tone of the movie leave much to be desired." I don't think anyone who has ever not created anything can use words such words: structure, pacing and tone of a tale... a tale is a tale, what do these people want, he is on parole and she is on the lamb, if they stay together which is inevitable because they fond for each other and with time that connection will grow, its a ticking time bomb, its either break it and go their separate ways or stay together and fae dire consequences... so I don't understand, OK, here's your label Love/rom/thriller/I don't know, violent - oh and hte guy makes a comment about it being morally murky? what does that even mean? Its two make believe people, in a make beleive story that someone put toghetr so we can chilax and watch it... wtf? I was stunned on how the ending made me feel, a true work of art

I give this movie five stars because it held my attention. However, I held back the additional five stars because the main character made so many unnecessary, bad decisions that I wanted to scream at him to just stop. The first bad decision was not calling the police when he found her with the dogs. Then he was dumb enough to take her to his apartment, WHAT? I wanted to stop watching at that point, but I kept watching. Maybe that was a bad decision on my part.

The sexiest kissing scenes I've seen in a long time. You could feel the heat. I am a big Elizabeth Moss fan and her leading man was also awesome. The first kiss, when they were under the tarp in the back of some old truck, steamed up my screen.

I'm not sure how anyone can give this 10 stars. The plot is wafer thin, the dialogue mostly incomprehensible (characters either whisper incessantly for no apparent reason, or mutter their lines, or battle against a pack of barking dogs for most of the movie) and 75% of the scenes are shot in near darkness so it's impossible to figure out (or even care) what's going on. I found myself fast-forwarding to those bits where it was possible to actually see anything. The male lead who portrays a rather unlikeable ex-con with an inability to cope in the outside world sleepwalks through the movie, and the wonderful Elizabeth Moss is wasted as a weak, socially inept victim of marital abuse. If you chose to watch this for her performance, don't bother. It's pretty lame.