Comedy in "Pure Luck"

A world without comedy would be similar to a butter knife, it's dull, useless, and achieves very little. The world would be filled with impolite and obnoxious people. Comedy helps keep the flow of the world going. It allows people to laugh at one another and shrug off rude comments at the same time. It also creates a casual environment. Comedy is everywhere and it helps the world be a little less boring. Comedy can be found on televisions, the internet, and books, only to name a few. Comedy creates the illusion that things will get better; however, comedy gets better by making the situation worse. There are many types of comedy and some are: satire, farce, and one-liners. The definition of comedy is any story or event of a light, humorous nature that has a happy ending. One place where there was a reoccurring theme of comedy was in the movie Pure Luck. Three characteristics of comedy found in the movie were that logic and standard solutions do not always work in comical plots, comedy focuses on the irregularities in an otherwise orderly world, and comical characters consider the abnormal to be very normal. One repeating characteristic of comedy throughout the movie is that logical and standard solutions do not always work in comical plots. For example, Dr. Monosoff suggests that they use an accountant, Eugene Proctor, to help find Mr. Highsmith’s daughter. The reason they pick Eugene is because Dr. Monosoff believes that Eugene and Valerie Highsmith have one thing in common: coincident misfortune syndrome. This means that Eugene and Valerie are so misfortunate that they will coincidentally meet. This idea was told to the detective, Raymond Campanella, and he thought that this was the most absurd thing he’s ever hea... ... middle of paper ... ...helicopter and this caused the pilot to land. Coincidentally, this is close to where Valerie is. These are all examples of how comical characters consider the abnormal to be very normal. In conclusion, normal solutions don’t work in comical plots, abnormal things are normal to the characters, and comedy focuses on the irregularities in an otherwise orderly world. Pure Luck does a great job of portraying comedy. It made a lot of people laugh throughout the movie and that is the point of comedy. The world would be a boring place without comedy because there would be no entertainment, but at the same time comedy can get very personal with the use of satire, which can cause problems. Nothing is taken seriously, nothing is bad, and everyone wins in the end in the world of comedy. For the most part, comedy is a good thing and it helps keep the world in motion.