Damián Szifrón’s Wild
Tales is a package film comprised of six short films united by the common
theme of human nature’s propensity to resort to animal instincts of violence
and moral turpitude at the slightest hint of transgression. The original
Spanish title of this Argentine film (which was nominated for the Foreign
Language Film Oscar this year) is Relatos
salvajes which is more aptly translated as “Savage Tales.” These six
stories are not just wild, as in a little crazy and beyond the pale. They are
savage and occasionally brutal in the way wild animals have no regard for the
violence they inflict on each other.
