Wild Tales/ 2015Fabián Bielinsky

Wild Tales is an Argentine-Spanish black comedy drama about five and a half stories that are connected to each other in that each story is a about people doing whatever they  want without restraining themselves. The subjects of the stories range from a story about a man kidnapping a plane full of everyone who was cruel to him to a story about a women poisoning the man who caused her father's suicide with plenty of deaths, failed marriages and people crapping on cars in between.

I like the general idea of people doing whatever they want without restraining themselves (just like animals) as I think it is smart and pretty original but this movie didn't treat this idea to it's full potential. Sometimes this movie shows situations that are too vulgar and childish to seem real instead of showing situations that seem more realistic. Some of the motives of the characters seemed idiotic too. The actors are mostly unknown and not very convincing in their roles except for Ricardo Darvin who is very good as an average man who is fed up with the way the dmv treats the regular citizen. I liked the theme of inside/outside while the people that drive the situation are inside and the people that are driven by the situation are outside. I liked the motifs, one of them being a fire extinguisher that symbolizes rage at its purest and something that is going to explode (metaphorically of course) and another one being a cake to symbolize a hope for the future and a happy ending. As a comedy I find this movie is pure rubbish as it has very few good laughs, a horrible sense of humor and lets you leave the theatre with a very dark feeling. On the other hand, as a drama this film is interesting as it has a philosophical elements in it that show the beast that is hidden in all humans.

Verdict: 3/5

In one sentence: "an interesting  and original film with some idiotic scenes and mediocre acting"