HESHER
A feel-good movie that doesn’t want to be a feel-good movie
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.
Hesher isn’t a bad guy with a heart of gold. You can look for the character clichés here, but for the most part Hesher doesn’t fit them (or at least not the “feel good” movie ones).
He’s selfish, pleasure driven and basically, as the tattoo on his back indicates, he doesn’t give a fuck! He just needs a place to stay, do laundry and eat.
