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Its farcical mystery challenges the stagnancy of gay narratives in contemporary cinema, twisting a common trope into something fresh and sensual for our modern world.

The free-form jazz in the film makes the atmosphere almost farcical, a choice that feels even more strange when Bong introduces the apartment complex’s janitor, who has a taste for dog meat.

Some thefts have been downright farcical though, including the gang that tunneled into a secure vault at a Lloyd's Bank branch on London's Baker Street in 1971.

The characters are so farcical in their outlandish country club get-ups that they hardly seem agents for a “troubling study in power and agency” that the directors suggest in their program note.

They saw a mighty man of consummate integrity and courage defend his country, decency, and democracy in the face of a farcical onslaught.