A movie with something to say!

Rating: 10/10 (4 March 2005)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch may be the most visually stunning movie I have yet to see. It's difficult to speak justice of how great to the eye the movie is. It's one part Amelie, one part Tool, and one part of a Radiohead video. The story which focuses on the lead singer and the lover somehow seemed to leave me viewing the movie from the eye of the backup vocalist. Hedwig offers much of a too real look inside of what life has been since the Reagan years. The wall crumbles, but even after the fact, life seems to be the same for the western person! Satisfaction can only be gained by questioning anything established. Any answer of common reasoning is thrown out. Hedwig and the Angry Inch's sarcasm reaches beyond levels of understanding among its actors. They are placed around the world, in different social climates, always after the one thing, acceptance. With that said, each actor has a difficult time even accepting their own self. Each character tries to justify their existence and at the same time offer and almost push their "gift" to the world. It is a very unique movie, and may leave the viewer a bit bitter upon our world's social climate. At the same time, it's a movie that needed to be done! A movie through its myriad of characters helps one to fit in to what seems to be a world being molded from oppressive thoughts, hands, and acts from the elitist establishment.