A surprising and beautiful thing.

Rating: 9/10 (17 July 2010)

The 9 out of 10 is only because, at times, a leeetle dramatic momentum would have made this a perfect piece of cinema.
There aren't many films I see that I would absolutely rave about to someone else, but this does reach the mark. A fine Orwellian story about a very familiar world gone mad in the hands of popular fear and totalitarian thought control, this story posits the strength and beauty of poetry as the key, the incidental music to truth and freedom. It's a hymn to beauty and truth, supreme against the tyranny of image, politic and power. For anyone who knows they have a soul, and needs it lifting a good hundred steps higher at the end of a long day, bung it in the DVD player and be driven to a higher, better, more hopeful, joyful place.
Just try not to mind the slight twee-ness of the ending (all those people in masks!)