American Splendor
Jun 6th, 2006 by Ashley
A movie about the author of American Splendor, a truthful, unsentimental comic of his working-class life which is widely appreciated because people can relate to the daily situation, struggles and whatnot that he portraits. He’s not your “ordinary” hero; he’s an ordinary one-of-us. And the movie is fun, refreshing and so very worth 100-minute of your life.
Go.
Go watch the movie.
Harvy Pekar himself was in the movie as well, and the clip taken from the red carpet also gave us a glimpse of who he is. He’s one of those famous people that one of the reasons he got famous was because he was a nobody. Or there’s another kind. They get famous for their anger towards society, and their angst toward celebrity and all that stuffs considered insignificant. Once they’re famous, either they stop being a nobody or stop being angry and lost the root of their fame, or they become an awkward being. However, awkward is not necessarily bad here. Pekar is the regular-people-hero type of person, and he’s meant not to be like by everybody. He’s weird in some ways, he has obvious flaws and he’s even depressing. But hey, he’s already done something that ordinary losers never accomplished. Wouldn’t that count as an hero?
* Just watched the 1988 clip of Pekar on Letterman’s show, Letterman was really a disrespectful, full-of-oneself jerk (or as Joyce said, a megalomaniac; or as another person who despise him said, a prick.) No wonder I’ve never liked him.