Best Satire Movies of All Time
Satire has been used in both literary works as well as movies. Many movies with satire are made to poke fun at the ironies of life, exaggerate faults and convert tragedy into laughter. Some movies are aimed at sending out social messages. Some of them are spoofs while some are played in the form of drama, serious to the characters. Some of the best satire movies of all time are listed below:
• Fight Club- This movie is about a lonely isolated thirty-something young professional who seeks an escape from his mundane existence with the help of a devious soap salesman.
• American Beauty- Lester and Carolyn Burnham are on the outside, a perfect husband and wife, in a perfect house, in a perfect neighborhood.
• Forrest Gump- Forrest Gump is a simple man with little brain activity but good intentions.
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb- U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely and utterly mad, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R.