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As for “Hesher,” it’s a Sundance film, which means that it applies Hollywood talent and Hollywood technique to subjects that are only superficially too “risky” (i.e., violent, sexual, sordid, or depressing) for studios to take on, and that it normalizes the outsider and celebrates the ostensibly transgressive as a form of liberation and self-fulfillment. It tells the story of a violent, uncontrolled, but—of course—not truly evil, and, indeed, good-hearted wild man, who just happens to look and act different from everyone else.
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