What?

Rating: 5/10 (19 January 2007)

When "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" came out, it received critical praise. When I saw it, I could barely understand it. True, it was about an East German man (John Cameron Mitchell) getting a sex change and forming a band, but what's it all supposed to mean? The whole thing just came across as a series of strange images strung together. I couldn't derive that the movie was really supposed to have a specific point.
I should identify that "HATAI" isn't terrible. There certainly are some interesting scenes. It's just that I couldn't figure out why so many people considered it a masterpiece. A really good movie dealing with the Berlin Wall in "Das Versprechen/The Promise". Maybe this one is worth seeing once.
Back when Dolly Parton (happy birthday, Dolly!) first started singing when she was very young, she probably never guessed that one of her songs would get used in a movie like this.