The story of the Marx Brothers, as envisioned by Sári O. Horváth
Chaplin is credited with the thought that life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in the long shot. In the case of the Marx Brothers, one could say that their lives fit this observation by their contemporary quite well. The somewhat melancholic and largely complex fates of the brothers as individuals intertwined into the totality we call the Marx Brothers today.
