Relatos Salvajes (Wild tales)

I love dark comedy. It's funny, yet scary. Comedic, yet psychopathic. Amusing, yet disturbing. Some movies go too far in one direction or the other. Sometimes I end up being depressed, not laughing, and sometimes it's not dark enough and just gets boring. Relatos Savajes (translated: Wild Tales). Is an Argentine-Spanish dark comedy, involving six unrelated stories about people who just LOSE IT. After being struck with bad luck, each of these people want revenge, and they get it, whether it involves a hammer, a knife, rat poison, a car, a mirror (strangely, yes) or even a jet plane. Surprisingly, not all of these incredibly tense psychopath stories end sadly, but they all have many very dark elements to them. One of them got too dark, and I didn't really find it very funny because it wasn't a very interesting situation that might cause one to laugh. Comedy = tragedy + time, but some tragedies are just so boring and normal I wouldn't be surprised to find happen any day in the real world. Basically, the whole point of this film was that sometimes,
    “All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.” 
― Alan Moore, The Killing Joke.

      That's one of my favorite Joker quotes, and it goes so perfectly with the theme of Wild Tales. I wouldn't say this movie is a masterpiece, with slightly too-dark parts, yet I wouldn't say it shouldn't be watched by anyone who has a good sense of humor. I personally loved it, but many will be grossed out by the violence and dark content, I think those people know who they are. Take the opportunity to see it in theaters, too. The suspenseful and tense moments where you don't know what's going to go wrong are much stronger in front of a large screen rather than a laptop or whatever people watch movies on nowadays. A-