Satire
The German author, journalist and critic Kurt Tucholsky said once: “The satire must overact. It blows up the truth to reveal it and it can’t do anything else than working after the biblical saying: The fairs have to suffer with the unfairs.
”With this statement he described very good, what the satire is about. It is about merciless criticism on our society and their missing virtue.It is difficult to call the satire an own genre, because the satire is often associated with other ones.
The first “satirist of movie” was Charly Chaplin. His creation “The great Dictator” called attention to the society’s dreadful situation while the National Socialism from 1933 to 1945 and he amused the nation with his image presentation of a paranoid and megalomaniac Adolf Hitler.
Current examples are: Fightclub with Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, Borat with Ali G. and American Beauty with Kevin Spacey.
But we also have some examples of satire in the world of comic and animation, like the Simpsons, South Park and American Dad.