Recently I saw the film, Melinda Melinda. I liked it a lot I thought the concept was really interesting. The premise of the movie is two playwrights are sitting down to dinner with two other people and they are discussing whether life is inherently tragic or comedic. Then a guy tells them a bare bones story and the playwrights take turns telling the story as a tragedy and the other one tells it as a romantic comedy.
I hate to admit it but I prefered the tragic version of the story. Romantic comdies generally do not interest me because I feel that they are so over the top and unrealistic. However, I do not believe that life is inherrently tragic or comedic because life is not a film, book or a play. If it were it would be a mixture of all genres: comedy, romance, tragedy and irony.
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