I was finding Never Really Sometimes Always to be okayish until I got to certain scenes...

Autumn is offered the help of social assistants at the clinic to find a place to stay overnight, a woman even gives Autumn her phone number so she can get in touch if she feels she needs to. She promptly refuses to take any extra help from the clinic. The girl also uses all her money to pay the clinic, so her parents won’t…

This movie has a very repulsive gaze. It often feels we're looking through an harasser's lenses and that we are supposed to think he is in the right. Even if ¡Átame! was an Almodóvar's attempt to portrait Stockholm Syndrome, to make a satire or whatever, he totally failed in it. For no matter what he tried to say, what really came out was misogyny all the way.

¡Átame! romanticises kidnaping, violence against women, abusive behaviour etc. It excuses Ricky's actions…

There are so many wrong things about this movie that I don't know where to start of if I'll manage to mention them all...

1. According to Idiocracy the world is getting dumber because dumb people (who happen to be poor) are having too much children, who would also be dumb. Whereas smart people (who happen to be rich) are not having children (who would certainly be smart). Poor people are dumb and shouldn't procreate because their stupidity would be…