Ideas Stronger than Love

Rating: 10/10 (26 March 2006)

I was not expecting to have such a great time when I went to this movie this weekend, but it hit all of my hot buttons: loss of freedom, governmental plots against their own people, religion used as an excuse rather than as faith, homosexual rights, and ideas stronger than romance.
I understand that the graphic novel from which this film derives was written in the 1980's, well before the USA's start of the war. The prescience of the author is to be commended, even though I have been told that he doesn't like how his novel was changed for the screen. I'll have to purchase it to decide for myself.
I normally don't go to movies with large amounts of graphic violence, but this is one which I endorse and even take my kids to see because it shows that extreme measures and intelligence can triumph over institutionalized evil, as well as that every decision (such as looking for security) has a price.