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At one point, Allen gives you several versions of the same climactic scene (it varies according to the historian), and the effect of all those farcical possibilities is elating: a Rashomon -like sequence where you don't give a damn what actually happened.
As a matter of fact, instead of focusing on polling's farcical contributions to an enlightened society, he conveys the notion that polling is/would be credible without the manipulations (subtle or otherwise).
The term "black comedy" has become so elastic in the last few years that it now extends to entertainments as various as Life Is Beautiful , in which Chaplinesque sentimentality is juxtaposed with concentration-camp horror, and Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels , in which flyspeck louts machine-gun other flyspeck louts with farcical haplessness.
Laughter created by farcical comportment, or by satire, creates an opposition to the prescribed value and to the seriousness of it.
The movie is a passable entertainment--call it The Half Monty . It has standard issue (but funny) farcical sight gags and a score of panpipes to provide the requisite undercurrent of Celtic melancholy.
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