It's
a twisted comedy that has charm, but also a premise that could be insulting if not handled intelligently.
A wickedly colorful,
twisted comedy, Drop Dead Gorgeous probes the heart of a small Minnesota town where a fictional teen beauty pageant has unleashed a fury of very unladylike behavior.
Instead of using his newfound clout to take a starring role in another prestige picture, an action vehicle, or a superhero movie, his next gig will see him play a supporting role in
a twisted comedy from the mind of Taika Waititi, the director of films like Thor: Ragnarok and Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
Swedish director Ruben Ostlund creates a fitting atmosphere for his family drama that has a surprising amount of
twisted comedy.
This is described as a «no - holds - barred pileup of carnage,
twisted comedy, and pure crazy.»
It's also very funny, Peele never afraid to exploit the material as
a twisted comedy of manners, particularly when Chris is shown off like a prize trophy to Dean and Missy's moneyed friends («Black is the new trend!»
That see - saw effect is part of his power, what Julia Kristeva has called a «dark caricature» — it draws us in with morbid and bemused fascination, at
this twisted comedy called life.
I was finding things in all different domains — in
the twisted comedy of Andy Kaufman, in the works of Marcel Duchamp, in Dada, and in The Sex Pistols.