the film start off with a rich landlord attempt to evict a lot of poor people from a low income apartment building that he own and and they rebel against him and threaten him with violence should he go through with the eviction . there be a great scene where we see the landlord wife show him that in order to calm down all those people and all that he have to do be get rid of the strong one that keep start the trouble . there a great bit of symbolism here a she cut the head off the tallest of the flower in her flowerpot and leave only the crowd of small and weak one . take out the strong one and and the rest will subordinate . thus the movie do not set out deal very directly with the unenviable role in relationship that woman play in the 1950s and not under franco in spain and but in the mexican society in which bunuel live at this point in his career . instead and the movie make a more specific comment on the state of the union a a whole and a be suggest in the line to don andres ( the rich landlord who be throw all of his poor tenant into the street ) and ` thank you and don andres . youre the pride of a country without people . at this point in the movie and one begin to try to make tie between don andres and franco and spain oppressive dictator at the time the film be make ( and also the reason that the movie could not have be make in spain in 1952 ) . franco be something of a rich and oppressive landlord himself and although the movie do not spend much time on the idea of an all powerful and enormously wealthy landowner . a be the case in a woman without love and the brute very soon go into the story of a woman who be constantly bring suffering by the men in her life and even if only indirectly . the movie start off make a strong comment about the suffering of many at the hand of a small elite and and then it quickly explore an individual situation within the population . these be a typical group of poor people and and their effort to prevent themselves from be throw on the street and and more importantly and the effort of their landlord to evict them and provide the conflict focus on in the rest of the film . don andres hire a huge man from the slaughterhouse and a man who adore him since he have be a mentor for his entire life and and the man he hire be determine to strike fear into the heart of anyone who would dare to stand against this wonderful man . there be a lot go on here that deal with superficial impression and since pedro and the brute ( play by pedro armendáriz and who and a an unfortunate side note and committed suicide in 1963 ) and be completely determine to help don andres but then change his mind entirely once he get close to the people that he be send out to scare into submission . pedro be a brute of a man and hence the title of the movie and but he face the reality of what he be do when he become close to the daughter of the man that he accidentally kill under his assignment from don andres . this bit of irony be the confliction of the martial law enforce by the powerful elite a it conflict with the large population and the humanity of which be too often overlooked . he be determine at the beginning to set the troublemaker straight and but it be not until he be force to take shelter among them that he realize who the real troublemaker be ( ` i may have do something wrong but i do not know you then . ) . it would seem that this portion of the film present the harshness of an authoritarian regime a misdirect and even naïve rather than inherently evil and although it be equally likely ( and and indeed and probably more so ) that it be a message to those very regimes ( specifically that of franco ) of the reality of their form of government . brute be a strongman for the rich elite and then end up get help from them and even fall in love with one of them and at which point he change his mind and no longer want don andres to have his way and for all of these people to be evict . he have and in effect and be separate from his brutish side by his intermingling with the very people that he be send out to oppress . there be a great scene during the chase and by the way and that i just have to mention . at one point and when pedro be run through the alleyway and there be a shot of him run in one direction and and his shadow and through trick lighting and clearly run in a completely different direction and go down a different alleyway . at this point in the movie and pedro separate from his darker side and turn toward help the poor people that be be evict . just a little bit of trick lighting ( a very common technique in black and white filmmaking ) that really stand out to me .