Doing what's right.

Rating: 8/10 (23 March 2015)

Shame on all the critics who dismiss this film as over long, derivative and that it dares to "fail to achieve ideological coherence" in thewords of one of the most dubious critics to ever win the Pulitzer Prize.
Incoherence is the theme.
Finding your way in the world amidst all sorts of contradictory but who knows how credible sources is the challenge of coming of age for all of us growing up.
Can we be pigeon holed? Can we stand up and question to the assumptions we are expected to accept by our families and the consensus of the various and conflicting sub-cultures in which most of us are raised?
Perhaps you are 15 and your parents are members of a church that believes with all their being that the world was created by God 3000 years go and that carbon dating, and evolution are the work of the devil. Or maybe they believe all religion is superstition and that religion itself is a sort of delusional psychosis.
These paradigms and everything in between is what our children must contend regardless of their station, class, race, religion, sexual orientation or nationality.
This movie navigates these troubled waters in a sure handed, original and entertaining way, never losing sight of the larger struggle to sort the'good' from the 'bad' and what the associated costs may be.
What are the values that matter most? Security,liberty, social cohesion, the power of the few over the many and the rights of the minority all are questioned. The hope of answers begins to emerge for our protagonist as her journey progresses. It is a journey worth taking.
This is the sort of movie where pretentious movie critics prove how pusillanimous they really are.