In According to Law from 1957 Weiss gives a more penetrating documentation of claustrofobia, alienation and absence of sexual life in a youth prison in the fifties, in Uppsala, a small town in Sweden. From unexpected angles he is catching the naked external and gloomy interior. These sequences visualise in a suggestive way the structure of power in prisons. The text in the beginning of the film says: “The film was censored by the State. We who made the film were prohibited freedom of expression. It was assumed of you who see the film that you could take offense at certain details of reality”
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