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The People vs. Larry Flynt doesn't set out to make us like or respect Larry Flynt ebony and Hustler magazine or, for that matter, to hate Larry Flynt and Hustler magazine. (Director Milos Foreman maintains, pointedly if disingenuously, that he has never so much as read or looked at Hustler). Whether Larry Flynt is a good guy or a bad guy, whether ebony or not he molested his daughter as she claims, whether or not his profligate and indulgent life has internal meaning or stands as an inspirational model ebony for the rest of us -- these questions of judgment are entirely and intriguingly irrelevant to the film. What does matter in this film is standing up for the right to have what Flynt flaunts as bad taste defended as fully and forcefully and righteously as what is crafted and refined, to have the mutterings and yearnings of the little guy, the regular man or woman on the street, given every bit as much right to exist and be distributed as the erudite words and images of the educated elite, even if the material itself turns out to be (as regularly seems to happen in Hustler) racist, anti-Semitic, and virulently
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