Hmm I haven't watched a movie on Mubi in some time, I should try another random one ... hmm, a comedy about an anarchist and a grieving family? Sounds interesting ... let's check it out .... is that Natalie Portman???? ... Wait is this .... no it can't be ... he is Joseph Gorden Lewitt .... that Dad feels like I know him .... godamnit it's Rainn Wilson.
This is literally how I reacted to this movie while watching it.
It's about a young boy called TJ (Devin Brochu), whose life is shit. His mother died recently. That's the reason he lives with his grandma (Piper Laurie) and his father Paul (Rainn Wilson) is basically not caring about him.
Enter Hesher (JGL), an anarchist who decides to move into their house after his old place got attacked by the cops because of TJ. Hesher likes heavy metal and driving around in his van. He also likes being an anarchist and doing what he wants. Even though he doesn't seem like he is helping, step by step he is changing the families life.
First of all Rainn Wilson is now officially one of my favorite actors. And with a beard he looks very good I gotta say. He delivers a great performance, that is totally different to anything I've seen him in before.
JGL did a great job as well, being a lovable asshole.
This movie is NOT, I'm repeating, NOT a happy movie. I guarantee you, this movie will make you sad and it will make you hate life. Because that is how most of the characters feel. Sometimes life is shit.
And I'm not sure if this movie leaves you happy at the end, but it made me feel less sad, I guess.
The characters are great, you love every character (except for the bully, you hate him) and you feel for them. Also every character goes through a change.
Usually I hate movies about a kid that is behaving like a grown up or hangs out with a lot of grown ups. But in this movie it is very well done, the boy behaves still like a boy in many aspects and with Hesher being half a kid in his mind, it worked having him together with the boy. Also there is one of those kid loves grown up love story between him and Natalie Portman that doesn't feel as weird as it usually does in those kind of movies.
Oh and by the way, JGL somehow managed to have a monologue about losing one of his nuts as a metaphor for the family losing their mother and it totally worked, so that's a big plus.
All in all I really enjoyed this movie and I'm rating it 4.5 out of 5 stars and a big like.
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