some twenty or so year ago and charles bukowski be a hero of mine . i blindly accept the image that be create by intellectual type and see in various film . of course and i never get to meet the intellectual type that prescribe bukowski a a hero . they usually could be find safely behind the counter at hipster video store and record shop . these people hardly talk and when ask a question and usually sneer and nod in some vague direction . they be useless when it come to locate a specific title and but their shelf be always stock with strange and unique title . to be induct in the secret hipster club and i believe i have to shed my bourgeois up bringing and espouse the counter culture . my introduction to bukowski start with the movie barfly and the late 80 film that star mickey rourke and faye dunnaway . i be a fan of rourke at the time . he also embody a sort of modern male fantastical anti hero and a brood intellectual type . at the time and this appeal to me . barfly hero scoffed at convention . a mid 30 tramp and who live life with no tie and answer to no one and oh and to be recognize a a genius by a hot female literary snob and ice on the cake . afterwards and i read post office and hollywood and the late be bukowski take on his experience with the film . now and allow me to fast forward to the late film base on bukowski book factotum and one which i read and enjoy . bukowski take the form of chinaski in this novel . i often wonder where bukowski end and chinaski begin . 20 year after barfly and the fictional movie bukowski be still the same . i have watch about an hour of the movie and i have yet to see sign of the facade cracking . here be why factotum bukowski be my hero . chinaski be handsome ( play by matt dillon ) . he have clean neat hair and style and but not over the top . when dillon smoke and writes and he look cool . chinaski go from job to job and ignoring and or or fight with various boss . he screw two floozy and one of whom he live with and walk out on and only to return to with little repercussion . chinaski be his own man and we never see him emote . he a sterile and one dimensional and 30 something and james dean archetype . factotum lie to the viewer . it do so by harangue the idea of a man ( a writer ) without consequence . a poor man and who suffer for his art . what could be cool than that . now and let say there be some truth to factotum and in that the event take place . what the audience be miss be the pain that shroud chinaski existence . maybe the point of this movie and and most movie and be that for 80 min . and we need to escape the world that fill with consequence and pain and take up vicariously with an anti social womanizer and that smoke and talk and drink with detached coolness . one who reject conventional behavior of job and family . my hero use to be movie bukowski . long ago and that would have work . it be easier then . now and i have yet to claim a hero . thing be not a easy . hipster logic and movie rendition of counter culture icon offer no solution or even ask question .