Something I noticed

It seems that many people on this board feel that the storyline is on a whole slow paced, however many of the death scenes happen so quickly that we can't invest emotionally into them.

However, I believe that Almodovar does this to imitate the fact that in real life life changing events do happen so quickly that we hardly see them coming. The fact that Rosa's funeral follows straight on from her scene in the hospital where Manuela tells her she'll be fine makes the death far sadder as there's a feeling that you can't return to how things were and that's very sudden (furthermore did anyone get the subtle link where the cross on the window frame is reflected in the funeral scene by the cross on the church, almost as if the death is preempted in the scene just before rosa goes into surgery). Also, I thought the fact that it goes from Rosa in the maternity ward to Rosa's funeral was realistic as Manuela who we follow throughout the whole movie wouldn't have been in the operating room, we can only see what Manuela sees so there is no big dramatic 'she's dying' moment in the operating room.

The only thing I didn't particularly like in the film was the seriousness in which Huma says 'I'll see you later' at the end, why so intense???

I went to kelis's yard for some milkshake, it was only O.K.