Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

I think the telephone represents the constant miscommunication between the characters throughout the film. Pepa had big news to share with Ivan yet it took her the entire film to finally tell her. She was in love with him but he didn't return that love. No one was really communicating with each other. On the other hand it is also the means of communication between the characters. Pepa waits for a call from Ivan. Candela tries to reach Pepa. In the end, the telephone is broken representing the failed communication. Pepa never did tell Ivan her news, she just broke it off with him. 

I think the title really speaks to the fact that women are constantly trying to keep up with what society and the world expects of them. At some point or another a woman may just have a nervous break down! What is expected of women is often oppressing and a woman cannot flourish in that environment. In this film the women are quite feminist. Throughout the film Pepa thinks that she just has to have Ivan in her life. By the end, she realizes that he isn't worth it. He is a womanizer. Instead of Pepa telling Ivan that she is pregnant and 'trapping' him into loving her, she doesn't tell him. This is quite a feminist action. To take on that responsibility alone. I think this movie really speaks to women empowerment.The women in this film represent how women feel and act in real life - to the extreme. It shows that women have their own problems. I think that the comedic factor was needed because this altered reality was so extreme. In order to deal with all the frustrations and plot twists there needed to be a comedic factor.