A Brilliant Film

Rating: 10/10 (29 February 2012)

I have to say that out of all the musicals and rock opera, Hedwig and The Angry Inch is one of the best. First of all, the performances from all the cast is superb, the story is poignant and the music is just great. Hedwig him/herself is a fascinating figure, strong and confident, yet vulnerable and hurting. Yet she always has dignity. The story of how she escaped East Germany by becoming trans gendered and marrying an American Soldier only to have the operation botched and being dumped by her husband in favour of a young man is a sad one. The expression on Hedwig's face as she watches her husband leave then discovers that the Berlin Wall is being torn down, is almost heartbreaking. Yet Hedwig rallies around with what is probably the best song in the film, Wig In A Box. Hedwig's one hope is that she will find her other and that she will finally be whole and perhaps by the end of the film, she has. One final note, the character of Hedwig was actually inspired by a woman who used to babysit for the Mitchell family. She was a German divorced U.S. Army wife who was also a babysitter and moonlighted as a prostitute at her Junction City, Kansas trailer park home. This is a film for people that loved Tommy, The Rocky Horror Picture Show And Repo The Genetic Opera.