A LOOK AT THE ABSURDIST/SURREAL/WHIMSICAL FILM GENRE? (In the Entertainment industry.)

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A LOOK AT THE ABSURDIST/SURREAL/WHIMSICAL FILM GENRE? (In the Entertainment industry.)  

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A look at the Absurdist/Surreal/Whimsical Film Genre?

Absurdist and surreal fiction challenges casual and rudimentary reasoning and even the most basic purposefulness found within life. There is often, though not always, a connection to comedy.

Absurdist fiction is a genre of fictional narrative (traditionally, literary fiction), most often in the form of a novel, play, poem, or film, that focuses on the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events that call into question the certainty of existential concepts such as truth or value. Common elements in absurdist fiction include satire, dark humor, incongruity, the abasement of reason, and controversy regarding the philosophical condition of being "nothing." Works of absurdist fiction often explore agnostic or nihilistic topics.

Surrealist cinema is a modernist approach to film theory, criticism, and production with origins in Paris in the 1920s. ... Related to Dada cinema, Surrealist cinema is characterized by juxtapositions, the rejection of dramatic psychology, and a frequent use of shocking imagery. The absurdist genre focuses on the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events that call into question the certainty of existential concepts such as truth or value.

The closely related/overlapping surreal genre is predicated on deliberate violations of causality, producing events and behaviors’ that are obviously illogical. Constructions of surreal humor tend to involve bizarre juxtapositions, non-sequiturs, irrational or absurd situations and expressions of nonsense.

Whimsical has to do with a sense of eccentric or quirky humor. Related styles exaggerate real life in a whimsical, eccentric, quirky or fanciful way, sometimes.

Whimsical and related styles are exemplified by films such as Underground, Amélie, Micmacs and Dieta Mediterranea ("Mediterranean Food"). 

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