Favorite moments of cinema: The Intro to Wild Tales or: Relatos Salvajes

Believe me when I tell you this Argentine film is a cinematographic prodigy that's much appreciated and improves the experience with a second view. Some may accuse it of being a cheater in its execution by being 6 short films stuck without any apparent argument between them, however here's the trick and value: although this series of short stories (as the producers and its creator, scriptwriter and director called it) doesn't have a temporality, chronology or common acting element among them, it entails a metaphor in the form of a narrative vehicle that perfectly communicates this entertaining, complex and full-fledged cinematographic exercise which, as its name indicates, it's the "wild".

The wild thing that is the human being, the man and why he's the most dangerous animal on the face of the Earth; an animal that, unlike other species, doesn't act by instinct or impulse, but with purpose, planning, reasoning of the facts and/or cause and a sense of sick, vengeful and even a pathetic survival way. What a shame we are as a species! And that's the main theme director Damián Szifrón wants to show.

Wild Tales is a thesis of human violence seasoned with a touch of exquisite black humor; we could call it a tasty comedy that ironically reaches the limits of man's reality and his actions in threatening situations in a great steel jungle full of noise, injustice and revenge.

And like any thesis, the director seems to segment his work in prologue, introduction and chapters and/or cases that crumble the "wild" purpose of his stories. We can find ourselves with a mythical "bomb engineer", with a road situation in which we could see ourselves intruded or perhaps with the best sequence of a wedding in the history of cinema, however none of those we are going to review here today, focusing I'll focus simply and simply on the fabulous intro, a lavish credit scene that combines everything we are about to see: Wild Stories.

Please pay attention to this series of frames that look "normal" at first sight, but when you enjoy the work as a whole they're part of a whole and even through the masterful theme composed by Gustavo Santaolalla are the perfect portrait of the film. Particular case, this opening is as enjoyable and hypnotizing as each of its shorts, being an extremely careful overture even in its number of "animals" presented (Pay attention to the number of beasts with the names described in each credit)... a perfect harmony and communion to the savage world we're about to live in.

Enjoy the melody and please, see Wild Tales. You'll never regret it!