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| Woody Allen with Scarlett Johanssen and Hugh Jackman in Scoop |
Humor derived out of unpleasant and disturbing circumstances can be called dark humor.... It could be disgusting and sardonic to many.... Dark humor is displeasing enough to push all those unease buttons in any normal person, but humorous enough to induce an untimely laugh... It is neither intense nor deep, but falls on a thin line between offending and disturbing... Lots of Woody Allen (Oscar-winning chronicler of urban neuroses- according to Barney Stinson in "I heart New Jersey" episode ;-)) movies have such dark elements... In the movie Scoop, Sid Waterman (played by Allen) claims that he loves London (and all its Indian food), except that the driving is on the wrong side {Referring to London traffic driving on the left- Like in India and many other former British colonies}... He even claims that every time he drives a car in London, he is convinced that he is going to die in a crash... and he does die so in the movie... But there are no scenes / dialogues of mourning there after but only a funny sequence showing Sid playing some magic tricks on the Reaper's ship with a shadowy image of the Grim Reaper** himself... How satirical... How outlandish... How hilarious....
