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2004-03-10

Hello people of the future! When you read this, it will probably be a few days old even though it appears on the first page. When this was written, people still lived above ground and they didn’t have extra limbs due to radiation.

And also, we didn’t have a record by the Adam West Fanclub Experience. You lucky people of the future.

American Splendor — where to start? Just the fact that they had Harvey Pekar himself to narrate it, made me almost instantly aware of what kind of movie this was. (Apart from being really really good that is.)

I’m a sucker for these “real life”-things such as Larry Flynt, 24 Hour Party People and the Man on the Moon. There’s a line from 24 Hour Party People that describe this sort of film pretty well: “When you have to choose between the truth and the legent, always print the legend.”

Anyway. Harvey Pekar writes the comic American Splendor which is about his own life. He’s sarcastic and negative and well, not that people-friendly. Unlike the other movies in this genre, this is not about big things that happens. It’s ordinary life and no matter how much change, it always stays pretty much the same. But damn, it’s a good movie.