The outrageous titles of Pablo's film seem to belong to John Waters aesthetic universe of pop culture, media, and trash as found in "Pink Flamingos" (1972), "Female Trouble" (1974), and "Desperate Living" (1977). "Law of Desire" is closely linked to two of Almodóvar's subsequent films. Religion and sexual abuse appear in the character of Ada who with Tina makes a cruz de mayo, a makeshift altar that mixes religious and pagan elements. Ada makes a vow of silence until certain wishes have been fulfilled. She also wants to make her first communion. The scene in which Tina enters her former school where she sang as the soloist at church and confronts Father Constantino, the priest who abused her when she was a boy, formed a partial genesis for Almodóvar's later film "Bad Education".