I did not watch this movie before, but I kind of get the idea about what is it and the style of it. It is the movie showing how a girl grow up in the harsh environment where girls are competing all the time. The idea that taking lesson while watching movie is reasonable. Nobody will likes the lecture on what we can or cannot do, so comedy is the form that encourages audiences to watch happily without focus on the meaning behind the film, but do know there is a latent lesson unconsciously.
In fact, most of people also run into the problems of bulling or verbal attacks more or less. Those problems are not particularly appear in one particular school, but almost all the high school. Therefore, when watching the movie, it is easy for people to recall their memory or sad experiences in their high school. The people who always bullied others will also start to review their history when seeing social queen do the same thing like they did before. If there is no humor in the movie, all those memory flooded into their mind will influence their feeling toward the movie. Maybe the one who saw the another self in the movie will became so regretful that do not want to watch it anymore. Although it does give audiences lessons by showing how bad influences they made to others, it may be too straight forward to give audiences good feelings.
Writing a play is like educating children. Parents cannot remark on their children's behaviors so directly without any modify, because it will sound like order them to follow rules. Children will be hurt or even develop a rebellious mind if their parents are too strict with them. However, if parents can use another ways, like telling fairy tale, children will accept the meaning unconsciously and even glad to learn more.
I think your analogy between comedy and parenting is a really good one, in part because I am always encountering this same issue with my three year old son. A direct approach is almost always not going to work, but incorporating imagination and play will. Of course, for Freud, humor is a way of replicating child's play, and of recreating the way that child's play allows the child to explore uncomfortable subjects, so it is not surprising that both would have some educational value.
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