This is yet again evidence that Pedro Aldomovar is a quirky genius. If I had seen this when it came out I would have said that these six stories, which are unlinked by anything except that they display the worst of human traits, were things that happened at the edges of life and were not seen in the main of life. Now that we live in an increasingly openly nationalist, misogynist, and caste oriented world, that opinion no longer holds.
The theme is that people do other people wrong, often quite casually, and that those acts of meanness or pettiness or side stepping ones responsibilities, are not forgotten and they come back to bite one. In this case with murderous intent. The stories are grm and the outcomes are deadly, but in classic Aldomovar style, they are all told with beautiful cinematography and a touch of humor, so you find yourself occasionally identifying with the wrong person, and also laughing a bit until you are horrified. And therein lies the filmmaker's true talent for story telling.
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