Saturday, 29 April 2017

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Reasons For The Popularity Of Surreal Comedies

By Ronald Martin


After reason has played out, something else can take its place in theater, film, novels or fiction. This can be the subconscious, where illogical events occur but are acceptable, having combined qualities of transport and fantasy that might be solely called a creation of the imagination. This is the place where people can connect with dreams, where impossible combinations are possible and believable.

Surrealism has long been a thing in art and the theater, but it was not until a century or so ago that it became a well defined item. Before that, artists, writers and poets relied on dream figures or events, on the supernatural and the actions of seemingly crazy or twisted characters. The element of surrealism or surreal comedies, though, has been there from the onset.

No wonder that the element is very familiar, because most folks all have experience of it in their own inner minds. Kings and paupers have dreams, and these dreams may be far out, simple, complex or close to reality, things made from the unconscious mind. They are no longer seen as visions from gods, but visions in sleep, freed of fetters made by the conscious world.

Often, the surreal element is combined with humor, because illogical things can seem very funny. That is why so many surrealist works are accepted within the discipline of comedy. There is also a school for surrealists, but its heyday was some decades ago, when artists really explored its depths and parameters.

The mainstream can also be the venue for surrealism, because it now incorporates many of its elements and other things besides. Right in this discipline, though, audiences expect the unexpected, or accept subversions of reality readily, because they can see reason behind the illogic. It often bursts the bubble of commonly believed things and the mundane into the fantastic.

Not being predictable and safely reasonable can often be viewed as very humorous, surprisingly so. Audiences make the gestalt connection but cannot identify it, since the source is often subconscious, lying there waiting to be discovered. Comedies are thus made better, since connecting to this world makes things look clearer than usual.

This connection, however, is tenuous at best, since it can easily dissolve within the so called real world. That is why comedies of this kind exist are highly appreciated when and when they appear. These are things that are not usually found in the mainstream but sometimes some work can break through and become a popular hit.

The field of animation is the place where much surrealist realities have migrated to. Mostly, this is humorous and will not have to conform to any reality but its own. And the human mind can accept this, with the surrealist element hidden in plain sight for the most entertaining cartoons, even as people will not really connect surrealism with things they see in animation.

Creative people in this discipline thus are adepts in recreating the subconscious into a believable whole, so that entire stories are made with start, middle and endings. This will not be about creating weird things or twisting reality for its sake. In fact, there is subterranean reality to all these, usually found within the fantastic or dream realms.




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