Why is Movies like Fargo, The Graduate, and Some Like it Hot considered Satirical Comedies?

To me, satire is the comedic use of a subject matter's strengths and weakness to show it's overall flaws, and to poke fun at or reveal its true nature.

Of those three, I really don't see Fargo as a satire. Some Like it Hot, it has been a looooong time since I've seen it so I'm also unwilling to really dissect it.

BUt the Graduate, one of my all time faves and it just takes the convergance of generations, their values and amps their extremes to 11 to show how screwed up the American Way and American dream can be, from the sex-drama between Hoffman's character and Mrs. Robinson, to the speach on "plastics and the future".

Movies Like Fargo

A satire is funny, but not a comedy. The humor is not light hearted, but rather is intended to make viewers think. There are many ways this can be accomplished, there is no formula for creating a satire. The only requirements that I can think of is that humor should be present, but so should a message, implicitly or explicitly.

The Graduate is the only pure satire here. Satire makes fun of conventions, in this case sexual morays of the 60s

Fargo is considered neo-noir (despite the off-beat humor) and Some Like It Hot is straight farce

Satire is poking fun at something. It's not necessarily ha-ha funny, it could just be a--huh, I never thought of that, how ironic.