Dark Comedy
The Dark comedy is a story about a famine-stricken and apocalyptic world in which bread, like all foods, turns people into victims.
People who kill each other for bread, people who risk their lives and steal bread from each other. In the heart of the story of “The Dark Comedy”, there is another world in a painting gathering the victims around a table. Two thieves who have stolen a bag of bread unintentionally enter the house where the painting is, and it is an allegory of the entire world of the film on a smaller scale.
The two thieves represent two groups of people facing the arising circumstances: one is panicky, empathetic, and anxious about the conditions, and the other is selfish, cold-blooded, and has control over the conditions. Over the course of the story, we witness one of them becoming a victim of bread and the other undergoing a personality evolving.
The short film “The Black Comedy” wraps the darkness caused by hunger in a layer of comedy and makes the viewer laugh bitterly, raising the question in the mind: “In a similar situation, which group would I belong to?”