I dot not fully agree with your interpretation about the polar bear, but all your take on the value a freedom is really interresting, you gave me a new look over the movie thanks a lot for this video.
Harvey Weinstein tried to get the director of the movie to cut 20 minuets from the runtime and have a clunky monologue slapped on the beginning and ending, but the director refused. So they palmed it off to a different distributor who released it in 8 theatres in the US.