Excellent Movie of A Complex and Layered Book

Rating: 9/10 (4 November 2013)

This movie is VERY well worth seeing.
It is an excellent movie of a dense, complex, and very layered book. There is a lot of nuance and details it the book - similar to "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep" by Philip K. Dick and, like "Bladerunner" - this movie captures the "feel" of the aggregate of all these details, while necessarily not the dense content of all of them,
Orson Scott Card - despite some things I have seen written about him here - is the best writer of books with the character, plot and old-fashioned storytelling virtues producing books that are accessible, fluorescent and flow with the shimmer of spontaneous prose that make them perfect for making movies of. He is a principled man with character, integrity and passion - he has a strong sense of compassion as well as justice.
The density of ideas in his novels is right up there with Philip K. Dick and Jack Kerouac.
The performances of Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Viola Davis and Hailee Steinfeld are all worthy of Oscar discussion, at least.
It is good enough and dense enough to see more than once.