I personally liked the comedy movie i watched a lot. It depicted irony in different ways. The biggest irony i must say was probably the ending line that stated ‘not everyone’s perfect’ when the man had revealed that he is not a woman but a man. This movie is a black and white movie during the late 1950s which is before the AIDs epidemic during the early 1980s which means that gays and lesbians movements were probably not as big nor widely accepted. So this was definitely big irony for the time and is still for our time. It is probably considered an irony at this day not because gays are not widely accepted but because we assume that the man who makes this last statement is a straight man throughout the entire movie after having been revealed of his past of several marriages with the opposite sex (female). Another irony was Marilyn Monroe still being in love with the main character after that man had deceived her throughout the whole movie.
Another interesting point was the difference between the so called ‘good’ and ‘bad’ characters of this movie. The main characters run away from a mob because they had witnessed a murder that they should not have witnessed. Therefore the mob members are automatically notified to the audience as the ‘bad guys’ and the main characters are noted to be the ‘good guys’. The irony in this was that throughout the movie the ‘good guys’ constantly deceive the people that love them. This reminded me of the play ‘All My Sons’ when Joe Keller is found as the ‘bad guy’ but the audience fails to realize the deceiving furtive characteristic of another ‘bad guy’ who’s been helping Joe Keller, his wife Kate Keller. This portrayed that audience usually likes to point the guilt at just one guy, or group. That brings me back to this movie, the audience fails to portray the guilt of the deceiving main characters as they do for the mob members and therefore concludes this movie with a happy ending where both main characters’ wrong doings go unpunished.
The old 1959 comedy
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