Random Rambles: Comedy = Tragedy + Time
The book "Earth" by Jon Stewart had a joke in it saying that twenty minutes after the theatrical release of "The Diary of Anne Frank" there was already a knockoff called "The Diarrhea of Anne Frank." Comedy and tragedy seem like opposing forces yet they frequently intertwine despite the major difference between the two. They are two sides of a coin and when people are sad, they watch a comedy. This was seen in the Vietnam War and World War II where people wished to escape the horrors of their time by going to the theaters and seeing something to take their minds off of the current issues. However, nowadays we have multiple dramas that delve deeply into the human psychology. Movies like "The Hurt Locker" or "Argo" kinda tell us what to realize is happening in our current society. People want the truth and the censorship issues of today only make people want to find out more about the human condition. So people like comedies and tragedies...