Do films with the genre of 'Tragedy' OR 'Comedy' resonate more profoundly with the human soul?

Answer 1

sadly they are the same thing, moliere the french playwrite was devastated when his plays (written as tragedys) were a huge success as comedies.
comedy however is rarely profound,dont be fooled by the "emperors new clothes" of some new and admittedly very funny new comedians, satire is hundreds of years old.
yet how can tragedy be profound,our reaction to tragedy does have a profound effect upon us but then the defenition of tragedy changes dependant upon experience..

Answer 2

I would say yes when it is as it were. Just remember the tension at the core of Euripides’ masterpiece The Bacchae. Pentheus, tyrant of Thebes, decides that the cult of a stranger like Dionysius-Bacchus deserves death, and after a series of misadventures-disguised as a woman, but then unmasked-he ends up being eaten alive by his own mother and aunts, who had escaped to the forest with other women to celebrate in bacchanalia the fusion of the visible with the invisible, the virile and the feminine, the delirium of possession and supreme lucidity, but then finally to recover ordinary consciousness after quartering Pentheus. The tragedy closes with a hymn of repentance: the God of the wine is recognized as such, and he is to be appeased with periodic public ceremonies.

Euripides’ Tragedy still resonates today as it did in 186 BCE when Spurius Postumus, a Roman consul, persecuted any person related to the mysteries of Bacchus. For the first time in history Rome closed its gates, not to a threatening horde of barbarians, but to its own people, and Postumus had some seven thousand person knifed or crucified. Six years later a magistrate would complain that “after another three thousand sentencings, we see no end to this monstrous process". The Dionysiac plague lasted as long as it was persecuted, ending only when Bacchus was officially assimilated into Liber, the old Roman God.

What the divinity of Dionysus represent is clear from Euripides’ text. As such, he is amoral, neither good nor bad, but capable of blessing those who (like the Asian Bacchantes) accept him, or destroying or maddening those who (like Pentheus) deny him. Like any necessity he is ambiguous, raw power: his lips spurts honey for the bands of the blessed that follow him but becomes a killing weapon when turned against the scoffer.

Answer 3

probably tragedy although you have asked a closed question when in reality there may be comic films that are more profound than tragedy. If you are asking for a generalisation I would say that tragedies are more profound.