I really loved this movie (and I still do, but)– just trust your own feelings about the character/story and don't turn on the audio commentary. It will ruin the movie for you since it makes perfectly clear that Philip Ridley clearly does not understand the character he is trying to portray, Ridley clearly belongs to the crowd that make Jaime's life a living hell. I don't argue that we all are bad, because we all are humans and mankind is a disgusting, brutal, reckless creation, but this does not mean that Jamie is a bad guy like the others. This is making the victim the bad guy. Nothing that Jamie does (especially nothing that he does by his own will/unmotivated by others or the circumstances) is nearly as mean as the people bullying him because of something he did not choose. And it is not in the last second that Jamie „realizes" that the world is beautiful, unlucky persons like Jamie are absolutely aware that life CAN be beautiful – just not for them, that is for people who are screwed from their birth on, by the wrong looks, the wrong parents, the wrong genes, curses that allow you not a single chance etc. . And it is people like Philip Ridley who do not understand them at all and are trying to turn them bad in order to have a justification for their bad luck – shame on you, Mr. Ridley (the only person who is definitely heartless is you, Philip Ridley). What is true, though, is that the world is not fair at all, and people like Philip Ridley with obviously better luck and little understanding of what it means to live on the other side support this situation. And it is true that Jamie wants to die, but actually what he really wants is (like he says) to be happy, be normal, have a chance to a normal happy life like other people with better luck, just: he does not get this chance, never, and nothing Jamie has ever done or will ever do will justify that HE is denied this chance. He is NOT the bad guy and with nothing does he deserve his fate, it is unfair and turning him into a „demon" does not change/justify this, Mr. Ridley, live with it and don't make it worse. And since Jamie is ever denied any chance, the only salvation (from his unlucky fate) he can get is dying, but it is not what he truly wants, he just won't ever get anything else. Maybe Mr. Ridley should rather make films about pretty teens partying all night, looks like this is the world he knows something about instead of being dialectic and doing victims of this deeply unfair world further injustice (in order to come to grips with the injustice, but you can't, that's the point about injustice, it just is unjust, no need to blame the victim).

(spoiler) the message in this movie was totally Unclear to me "sometimes you have to see the dark before you can see the light/stars something like that , OK all i saw was someone with schizophrenic type visions ,who committed a horrific murder and did not deserve the ( spoiler) happiness at the end, i mean there was really good acting in this movie and up until the point where the rent boy was killed i was enjoying it, then it turned into a pile of garbage. because i completely lost respect for Jamie after that. i gained no life changing experience from this as some others did, all i learned was that brutal killers have beautiful souls-go figure.

The plot: A young man with a birthmark on his face makes a deal with the devil to become beautiful.Unless you're an emo teen Christian, I doubt that you're really going to like this film. It's about how rowdy gangsters in hoodies are destroying England, finding beauty in life, finding meaning in life, and other crap like that. There's bland, boring music that constantly plays throughout the film. I think the music was supposed to be emotional and beautiful. I found it annoying. Much of this film was annoying, really. I stuck with it until the end, though, and I don't feel as though I wasted my time, but I would have preferred to have spent it watching a better film.However, there were some real moments. If you're willing to sit through a preachy, sentimental story that goes on about ridiculous metaphysical feel-good crap, you get scenes with really funny characters, like an egotistical gay hustler who is predestined to die a horrible death, a sociopath who likes to make small talk about killing his wife, and other assorted oddball characters who appear and disappear just as quickly. Is it worth it? I don't know. Maybe. I think it depends on your tolerance for certain flaws and how receptive you are to the sappy, conservative themes.The writing is a bit rough, and it resorts to poorly-thought-out plot devices a bit too often. The characters are designed to appeal to awkward, depressed teens. The protagonist is attractive, but he has a single flaw that leaves him feeling ugly and forever alone. Please. These kinds of models with a tragic flaw do not draw my sympathy. It's like they're just screaming out for the shy teenage girls to say, "I will love you, tragically flawed model guy! I can look beyond your single surface flaw and see your beauty!" Beyond that, the themes of youth out of control kind of bothered me. There was a positive depiction of a former gang member, but the rest were all vicious animals that couldn't be reasoned with.My question is... how come you never see English horror movies about football hooligans or neo-Nazis?

Wonderfully, powerfully, moving and thought-provoking. It is a rare thing for a horror film to genuinely touch me, but Heartless did just that. It was such an odd mixture of creature-feature horror, a stunningly emotive story and fantastic characterisation that it really defies classification.One thing I do know, however, is that watching Heartless gave me an experience like no other 'horror' film I've seen. The scare moments were in there, and I jumped in all the right places, but the deeper storyline, so brilliantly given life by Jim Sturgess and Nikita Mistry, was what made this film stand out as one of the best I have seen all year. As a general rule I'm not fond of creature/demon based films, because human beings are a lot scarier to me than something that doesn't exist, but far from being just a quest to scare you, this felt like a film that also compelled you to think, and that is where it excelled.The characters were refreshingly three-dimensional, and I really grew to care for them, which made the story all the more engaging – I wanted things to be alright for Jamie, I was rooting for him, and the deeper I got into the story, the scarier it became. That is how horror should work, it should suck you in to a point where you feel what the protagonists are feeling; that is how to produce a real scare. Not just in a jump out of your seat moment, but in the moments after the film has ended and beyond, where you think and contemplate what you may have done in the situation. The direction was excellent and the actual cinematography and use of photographs within the film was gorgeous. The standout element though was by far the superb acting throughout the entire piece. The leads in particular were impressive, but all of the supporting cast were stellar too.Heartless was a winner for me, because it is a film that I know will stay with me for a long time, and could well become one of my go-to films when someone asks me for a gem.