Brilliant Adaption Of The Stage Play

Rating: Null/10 (24 January 2006)

This is one of the funniest films I have seen in a long time and is a film adaption of an off Broadway play. It is funny, sad, vulgar, and heartfelt. You don't know whether to laugh or cry, or do both at the same time. Metaphors abound, the songs are good, and the acting is over the top. This has the potential of becoming a cult legend. It won't replace the Rocky Horror Picture Show but I can guarantee it will gather a large following as more and more people discover this quaint movie. John Cameron Mitchell is brilliant in the lead role as Hedwig, an East German Transvesite living in a trailer park in Kansas. His/her tale is told in a series of flashbacks often accompanied by song. Listen close to the lyrics, they add to the mystique of this gem of a film. I had heard about "Hedwig" for a long time but had never seen the film. I finally got to view it on an Arabic television channel complete with Arabic subtitles while I was in Iraq. Talk about weird! Punk rock and East Germany will never be the same again! (Then again neither will Iraq....but that's a different story) I have to give it "two thumbs up".