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Amores Perros roughly translates to "Love's a bitch," and it's an apt summation of this remarkable film's exploration of passion, loss, and the fragility of our lives. In telling three stories connected by one traumatic incident, Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu uses an intricate screenplay by novelist Guillermo Arriaga to make three movies in close orbit, expressing the notion that we are defined by what we lose--from our loves to our family, our innocence, or even our lives. These interwoven tales--about a young man in love with his brother's pregnant wife, a perfume spokeswoman and her married lover, and a scruffy vagrant who sidelines as a paid killer--are united by a devastating car crash that provides the film's narrative nexus, and by the many dogs that the characters own or care for. There is graphic violence, prompting a disclaimer that controversial dog-fight scenes were harmless and carefully supervised, but what emerges from Amores Perros is a uniquely conceptual portrait of people whom we come to know through their relationship with dogs. The film is simultaneously bleak, cynical, insightful, and compassionate, with layers of meaning that are sure to reward multiple viewings. --Jeff Shannon
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Love and Dogs,
This review is from: Amores Perros (Widescreen Subtitled) (Signature Series) (DVD)
Emilio Echevarria makes one of the most powerful Mexican films to be viewed in US American cinemas to date. This three-part film follows three stories and the interwoven themes of love and dogs. The first story, "Octavio and Susana" features the at once grittily violent and tragically romantic story of Octavio and his sister-in-law, Susana. Octavio chooses dog fighting as his path to liberate his love Susana and himself from their destitute state of servitude to Octavio's family. The story ends with a bloody crash that brings us to the next story of "Daniel and Valeria," and we are harshly jolted by the contrast between this beautiful model and her apartment overlooking her billboard and where we left off in Octavio and Susana's bloody lives. Echevarria even foreshadows this contrast earlier in the film when Valeria appears in the background on a television talkshow in the livingroom of Ocatvio's friend prior to a final dogfight. However, Echevarria cleverly turns our concerns on their head, and the most superficially perfect of lives becomes the most sad. We are left feeling empty and helpless when "El Chivo and Maru" ties all three stories together, by at once showing dogs as our loves, our enemies, our weaknesses. This film is gritty and real; the cinematography is at once documentarylike, and beautifully crafted. The shift in time and space suggests the ties between love and dogs, a theme that carries us through the end of the film. You will not be able to see this film once; multiple viewings are required in order to capture all of the beauty and pain.
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excellent,
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This review is from: Amores Perros (Widescreen Subtitled) (Signature Series) (DVD)
what an excellent movie. if you aren't an idiot and can read subtitles watch this movie, this is what movies today should apire to be.
3.0 out of 5 stars
is it just me. . .?,
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This review is from: Amores Perros (VHS Tape)
maybe i'm the stupid one. i've seen so many great reviews of this movie and i loved the director's new movie, 21 grams, so i decided it would make sense to see this one. i was a bit dissapointed. maybe there is something big that i am missing in the point of the movie, or maybe the point itself is just a letdown. it seems to me that there was this nasty car crash and through it, the movie tells 3 different stories about the people involved. there is a lot about familial relations, namely between brothers and maybe the dogs are metaphores for brothers. it is also about how (...) happens to different people. otherwise, the first story is entertaining and my favorite, the 3rd is the best in terms of theme, and the 2nd just seems boring and irrelevent. they are 3 different storeis which are loosely but forcedly connected and i don't understand why everyone says this is the best movie ever.
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