I’ve only given the general outline for each tale, so I won’t spoil things for you. But trust me, each tale gets more twisted than what I’ve explained above. This is one of those movies that wants to shock you, that wants you to be shaken somehow by what you see, and it succeeds very well on this. The film does not focus on the beautiful or the attractive, rather, it focuses on the grotesque, the outlandish, and the freakish. As is the case in many films of this ilk, the images and situations are entirely symbolic. I am not Hungarian, and I am not up to date on that countries history, but I’ve read that the film has many symbolisms dealing with Hungaria’s political history. The change from communism to capitalism. And you can certainly see the film in that way. You can also think of the film as a representation of various capital sins, like lust, glutonny, bestiality, kind of like an even more twisted version of Seven, but I dont think that would be an accurate comparison, because I dont think all the sins are represented on this film.