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Imagining one's future being confined to filing medical reports in a local veteran's hospital is not discouraging; but disturbing. Furthermore, would one be interested in reading a comic book about such a nightmare? Or even watching a movie?
American Splendor adapts to screen the life of a man who walks down the path no one else would dare to tread. Harvey Pekar, born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, is the creator of the comic and the subject of the film. Far from the Hollywood limelight, Pekar is a "genuine jerk" who "refuses to play it for laughs or sympathy" (Arnold 1). Nevertheless, the working class life he led as a file clerk became the subject of a praised comic and eventually worthy of an adapted screenplay.
"American Splendor's tone never venture[s] too far toward triumph or tragedy: it [holds] steady at sour, fatalistic, and inconclusive-yet somehow affirming" (Edelstein 1). By presenting the film in such a way; free of special effects, explosions, and dramatic car......

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