Elfriede Jelinek

The film for love questions the notion of a traditional family with a loving and caring mother at its core, an image promoted by many representatives of Slovakia's current political spectrum.

It is also daring in approaching the subject in the style of Elfride Jelinek, the famous Austrian feminist author.

What is also rather daring in Slovak society is the film's portrayal of the process of questioning whether prolonging the suffering of a person in the terminal stage of a fatal illness can be justified.

How can this film help ALS patients and their families? I asked Andrea Madunová from Bela Simotýl an organization supporting around 400 people at different stages of ALS in Slovakia.

Austria's cultural elite believed every word.

Release campaigns picked up support from novelists, journalists, politicians, and genuinely the future Nobel Prize-winning author, Elfriede Jelinek, with Günter Grass reportedly in the mix, too.

There's a quote attributed to Jack from the day of his release, reported secondhand enough that I'll flag it as he probably said, but I can't swear to it in court.

Quote, "In principle, I am more dangerous now than before my imprisonment because I've learned to think, and I can use words as a weapon." If he did really say that, it's the single most honest sentence in this whole episode that he has said, and somehow it landed on nobody as a warning.