Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

I understand now how Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is Pedro Almodovar's most accessible movie, but I would not necessarily say it was his best. The absurdity of this film reminded me of Bringing Up Baby, especially the scene when Lucia is on the motorcycle, shooting at the cab with Pepa in it. The cab driver was by far my favorite character in the movie. I thought he was hilariously placed, because it seemed like he was the comic relief after a more serious moment in the film. I also adored the scene when Pepa was crying and he also started crying, yelling at himself for not having eye drops. The other scene when he has the eye drops and Pepa uses them was perfectly placed by Almodovar.
As far as the relationships go in this movie, Ivan and Pepa clearly had an unusual one. Ivan was married with a child that Pepa didn't even know he had. She even admits that Ivan doesn't tell her anything. Communicating is a key aspect in a relationship and they definetely did not have that. They were constantly missing each other's calls and messages. Candela is another character with relationship issues. She says that she is used by men and the audience knows that she was used by the Shiite terrorists. The relationship between Marisa and Carlos is also an unusual one. They are engaged, but Carlos can't tell Marisa that he loves her, which made me skeptical if there would ever be a wedding between the two of them. Marisa also seemed to be controlling him and when she was unconscious because of all the sleeping pills, it seemed like Carlos could actually be himself because she wasn't telling him what to do. Carlos also kissed Candela at least three times, which I found absurd because she had just tried to kill herself and he knew that she just had a fling with terrorists. That did not seem to bother him though! Lucia and Ivan probably had the most bizaare relationship, which ended up with her becoming mentally ill and in a mental institution.
Children in this movie came up when Pepa found out she was pregnant. Pepa did not want Ivan, the father of her child, to be in her life or the child's and in that sense that scene reminded me of Antonia's Line when Danielle wanted to have a child but not a husband with it. Marriage did not have a positive connotation in this movie either. Ivan was married and he was also cheating on his wife with at least two other women. Carlos and Marisa were engaged and yet Carlos still kissed Candela several times. He didn't seem to care that she was asleep for so long either. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown was extremely entertaining and fit perfectly into the category of the Comedies of Remarriage.