![]() ![]() Jared and Jerusha Hess, who as a team wrote and directed Napoleon Dynamite, had managed to flatten magical realism into a kind of dork surrealism, creating a film that was the antithesis of, say, Amélie. ![]() Very quickly, they were a kind of code for the hipster’s eternal battle between sarcasm and sincerity. The characters and the swamp of irony/anti-irony that they inhabited felt instantly iconic and soon enough, they were omnipresent, their faces staring lifelessly out at us from dolls, postcards, and shot glasses. There’s the film’s aesthetic, of course, which seemed culled from some woebegone strip mall of that era, but there’s also the sense that the film has always been a part of our cultural landscape, like Abraham Lincoln or Lassie. ![]() One could be forgiven for thinking that the film Napoleon Dynamite, though released in 2004, was actually made in the ‘80s.
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