Own the rights?
Now, it would be a boring world if everyone had the same opinion on everything and the same sense of humour. What is sad, though, is the astonishing inability of some of the above reviewers even to appreciate that their understanding of this film might actually be a teens-weensy bit different from that of other cinemagoers.And I never cease to be amazed by the complaint often aired on this website that a film is subtitled. How terribly shocking it must be for you to discover that not everyone in the world speaks English. It shouldn't be allowed, should it?Jamon, jamon is obviously not to everyone's taste. I wouldn't recommend it to everyone I know, because the humour and the plot are idiosynchratic, to say the least. I regarded this films as a massive, but not at all serious, send-up of machismo and how it interacts with greed and lust. Above all, it is meant to make you laugh, rather than portray some profound message about the human condition. For example, although I can't speak for the Director, I suspect that the naked bullfight scene was simply meant to be absurd and, hence, to make you laugh. Anyone who thinks it is pretentious has simply missed the point and is pretentious himself because he is reading things into the scene which are non-existent. Not everyone will find a scene like that funny but I personally was in stitches, as I was during the parrot scene, the ham fight scene and many other eminently unforgettable scenes. What I can't say in all honesty is that everybody else in the auditorium found it quite as funny as I did.
You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers. They will be examined and if approved will be included in a future update. Clicking the 'Update' button will take you through a step-by-step process.
