Hedwig and the Angry Inch was a movie everyone should watch, as everyone needs to view The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It is another iconic movie that is so different it will always be remembered. This movie follows Hedwig, a homosexual young man who grew up in communist East Berlin, and dreamed of leaving his war-ridden homeland to find his soul mate. He thinks that he finds his soul mate in the person of U.S. Sergeant Luther Robinson. But he does not accept him for who he is and wants in to undergo a sex change with the promise that he will take him from East Berlin to America. His mother gives him her passport, and her name: Hedwig. Shortly after coming to America Luther leaves Hedwig and he begins his life and music career. We see his life begin in an unwanted country and unwanted body. Hedwig uses his music and flashbacks to show the viewer his life story and current endeavor of chasing his ex-love’s tour around the country, because he stole Hedwig’s music.

           
The music itself is amazing and covers many different styles. It has left many people buying the soundtrack and even getting tattoos of them. They are completely riveting. Underneath all the humor and the music, however, was the serious theme of feeling spiritually "whole". Hedwig seemed to interpret this as through finding love and one's soul mate, in the song “Origin of Love.” 
Having not even the faintest idea of what the film was about other than that it was a musical, I was very pleasantly surprised at how much fun I had with Hedwig, and how at the same time it never strayed far from its serious theme.

          
In the end you feel for Hedwig, who could be stereotyped as a diva, but is revealed as a deep character with a sense of loss. She ends up finding her half by looking inside and finding herself and not trying to be what others want her to be. This was a beautiful, inspiring, rock and roll film.

Ashley Burger