A perfect example of a dark comedy movie is like " Barking Dogs Never Bite".It shows complexe people relationship in society, and if you deeply feel the film, it is a little bit scary because of the film color and story about those dogs--killed and being eaten. The guy, Yun-ju was trying to earn professional degree, but a barking dog made him and his wife uncomfortable. He decided to murder the dog, but unfortunately, he got a wrong dog--the dog's owner's poster indicates that the dog he killed never barking. From this point, I remember one episode from T.V. show "sinfield", it also told us a story how people hate barking dog then decide to kidnap it. Then I have to ask, "if it was not a dog, but a man barking, are they going to kill the man as well?" and the girl works as a bookkeeper maybe but she did not enjoy her life either but was animated when she learns of a lost dog because she wants to get on TV.
It is not a laugh-out-loud comedy, and sometimes in dark comedy movie, it brings some horror, such as some film elements that we discussed during class, for instance, Yun-ju, the character is like Aristotle's theory---catharsis, he is so passive and angry when he gets in trboule, he release only anger instead of sympathy. due to the hard life, he hate everything: life, career, and even his wife, but he did not try to change it, instead he tried to murder a dog--it just gave the audience an opportunity to purge itself of certain negative emotions and also can relate to carroll's norm violating. And the working girl is like a day-dreaming people, always want to be a big hero and make her famous.
I have to say the movie is impressive because it makes me think about my way of dealing with life.
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