Excellent, Thoughtful, Philosophically complex.

Rating: 10/10 (3 July 2001)

Young people today, more than ever need to be led to think about the complex philosophical issues that determine (as Socrates stated it) what course of life is best. This movie addresses these issues while clearly alluding to its philosophical predecessors. If all high schools had students read Plato's allegory of the cave, Des Cartes' and Hume's refutations of Solipsism and then saw this movie moral education in this country would be much improved. It is a travesty that so many have dismissed this excellent, thoughtful and philosophically complex movie as meaningless violence.