Best movie ever made

Rating: 9/10 (10 December 2012)

My all-time favorite movie; would have given it a 10 if they had shown the Battle of Sterling as it actually happened, which was the English coming across a bridge that was too narrow for them to quickly move an army across and regroup (the Scots jumped on that mistake, charging down the hillside and annihilating that organizational mess).
To truly understand what the meaning of this movie is, you have to look at what it stands for and against. At this period in history, the English were treating the Scots as less-than-human. The Scottish men existed to serve the English cause, the women to comfort them (i.e. slavery and rape were the order of the day). There's no reason to hate England for what was happening--this has happened throughout multiple cultures in the world across the entire time-line, right up to the present. It's about a man, with spirit, appealing to people who believed that humans should be free of forced rule and abuse, and it really is that simple; everything else is a subcategory of that.