Death Becomes Her

As mentioned in a previous post Death is a recurring subject here but this post is somewhat more light-hearted.  Tragedy does not always have to be sad and foreboding there can be humour in tragedy and there can be great entertainment, this after all is where TV shows like You've Been Framed and America's Funniest Home Videos come from.

This post is about a Movie called Death Becomes her, a Comedy on the whole it deals with the issue of death by focusing on the attempts of others to escape it.  The two main characters Helen and Madeline ultimately become victims of their own selfish desires and in the end they live forever but that doesn't turn out to be all they had expected, while the man they both fought over lives a fulfilling life and dies of natural causes leaving the world behind and leaving Helen and Madeline behind to suffer their inadequacies.

The tragedy here is simply the fulfilment of that old saying, "be careful what you wish for because you just might get it".  Here I link the trailer and hope that this post has somewhat lightened the mood and for those sticklers among you who insist that tragedy must mean sorrow I shall not disappoint as there are more posts to come.