Tragicomedy of the Short Film

Tragicomedy is a genre which combines elements of both comedy and drama. Tragicomedy can be either a serious play with a happy ending (which is not a case with the simple drama) or a tragic play with a touch of humorous moments in order to lighten the mood. The point of tragicomedy is to evoke sympathy for the suffering of characters in order to expose responsible, social circumstances. Presenting human dignity, it gives the audiences hope and comfort.

The discrepancy between drama and comedy in tragicomedy can contrast both in coexistence and in opposition to each other or it can merge in identical cooperation. In ''laughter while crying'' syntheses, comic and tragic elements mutually reinforce each other: empathy and distance occur in constant switching and can even appear in paradoxical coincidence where they are indistinguishable.

Unlike drama, tragicomedy gives the audience positive moments which calm the people down after the tense scene and also the films of this genre usually have a positive ending. Also, unlike comedy, tragicomedy has a more complex character development so both protagonist and supporting characters feel to be more realistic. ((For the paragraphs described above I used this site-https://dramaqueen.info/wiki/genre-2/?lang=en)

That's the genre in which my short film is going to be because the songs of ''Pet Sounds'' and their themes are perfect to fit in this genre because there is a serious character development and also light moments which calm the pressure scenes.

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