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What do you do with a hero, or a heroine, who refuses the duties of the heroic? Given that movies rejoice in stardom, in the will of actors to besiege the screen, what happens when the characters whom they play want nothing more than to slide off the verges of the world? Thanks to the loose rhythms and low costs of independent cinema, we have met more slackers than we can handle; but a slacker is less vexing than a renegade, too hip to be a hobo, and stripped of genuine pith and attack by the charms of rebellion lite. Three new movies scorn the easy option, trying to revive our sympathy for those who take offense at modern ...
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