remembering the films that the audience forgot
“I didn’t read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I’m older. I read them all.”
— Steven Spielberg
T.J. and his dad have recently suffered a tragic loss. Then one day Hesher comes into their lives. Actually, he does more than come in to their lives. He literally moves in - without asking.
Hesher is a loner with long hair, who lives in his van, listens to heavy metal, smokes cigarettes and pot, likes to set things on fire has a tattoo on his back of a hand giving the finger and one on his chest of a stick man blowing his brains out.
"Hesher is a "feel good" movie that doesn't want to be a "feel good" movie - and that's what makes it so good. It makes the drama, the pain and the laughter genuine and ergo our reactions to it all.
Read MoreHunger is the story of the last six weeks of Bobby Sands - an Irish republican who went on a hunger strike while in prison in 1981. What is so interesting about this film is that we don't really get introduced to bobby sands until maybe the second third of the the movie. The first third of the film is focused on one of the english guards in the prison and two other inmates. Actually, there are so many interesting things about this film, and that is but one of them.
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