Amores perros is a Mexican 2000 drama thriller directed by Alejandro GonzÃÆ'¡lez IÃÆ' Â ± ÃÆ'¡rritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. Amores perros is the first installment in González IÃÆ'Â ± ÃÆ'¡rritu "Trilogy of Death", which was replaced by 21 Gram and Babylon . This is an anthology film constructed as a triptych: contains three different stories connected by a car accident in Mexico City. The stories centers on the teenagers in the slums involved in dogfighting; a model who seriously injures his leg; and mysterious assassins. The stories are related in various ways, including the presence of dogs in each.
The title is a play in Spanish; the word "perros", which literally means "dog", can also be used to refer to misery, thus roughly meaning 'bad love' with a canine connotation. The film was released under the Spanish title in the English-speaking world, although it is sometimes translated as Love's a Bitch in marketing.
The soundtrack includes songs by famous Latin American rock bands, such as CafÃÆ'Â © Tacuba, Control Machete, and Bersuit Vergarabat. Amores perros was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2000 and won the Ariel Award for Best Film from Mexican Film Academy.
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Plot
The film is built from three different stories related to car accidents that carry characters briefly together.
- Octavio y Susana
Octavio (Gael GarcÃÆ'a Bernal) fell in love with the wife of her brother Susana (Vanessa Bauche) and disliked the way she was abused by her brother Ramiro (Marco PÃÆ' Â © rez). Octavio tried to persuade him to run away with her. Local criminals Jarocho, happy after winning in aerial combat, letting his dog escape some of the strays and being threatened by a bum using a machete. Finally, Jarocho continued his dog on Octavio's rottweiler, Cofi, but his own dog was killed. Realizing this by his friend Jorge and needing money to start his new life with Susana, Octavio decides to get involved in the dogfighting scene. Jarocho keeps inserting a new dog into a fight, just for Cofi to kill them. Octavio got enough money to run away with Susana, and paid Mauricio, the owner of the dogfight spot, to make Ramiro beaten. To take revenge, Ramiro stole money and went with Susana. Struggling financially, Octavio accepts the challenge by Jarocho to participate in a personal fight, with no outside bet. Cofi will win, but Jarocho shoots the dog. In retaliation, Octavio stabs Jarocho's stomach. Stolen by Jarocho's thugs, Octavio finds himself in a car chase with the injured Jorge and Cofi. Collisions occur; Jorge died and Octavio was badly injured.
- Daniel y Valeria
Daniel's magazine publisher (ÃÆ' lvaro Guerrero) left his family to live with his girlfriend Valeria (Goya Toledo), a Spanish supermodel. On the day they move together, Valeria's leg is severely damaged in a car accident and can not continue to work as a model. One day, when Valeria was recovering in Daniel's apartment, her dog Richie disappeared under a broken floorboard and stayed there for days. The missing dog triggered a serious tension for the couple, causing many fights causing doubts about their relationship on both sides. Daniel calls his estranged wife to hear his voice, indicating that he regrets leaving her for Valeria. Trying to help the dog, Valeria retrained her legs; Daniel discovered hours later, resulting in severe arterial thrombosis and eventually gangrene. Feet amputated, ending Valeria's modeling career for good. When he was at the hospital, Daniel saved Richie from the floorboards. However, Valeria realizes that her life is destroyed. He quietly drove his wheelchair through a torn rag and looked out the window hoping to see a billboard bearing his likeness, only to find it had been released.
- El Chivo y Maru
The occasional bum seen in the previous segment is revealed to be a professional hitman named El Chivo (Emilio EchevarrÃÆ'a). Leonardo, a corrupt police commander, recounts that El Chivo is a former private school teacher who was jailed after a terrorist act for the guerrilla movement. When he came out, Leonardo started to give him a job as a hit man. El Chivo tries to make contact with his daughter, Maru, whom he left behind when he embarked on guerrilla engagement. Following El Chivo's wishes, Maru's mother told him that his father had died. El Chivo will hit a businessman when a car accident interrupts him. During the chaos at the crash site, El Chivo stole Octavio's money and brought a wounded Cofi to his home to look after him healthy again. One day, while El Chivo is away from his cellar hideout, Cofi kills the other savage dogs he cares for. Although initially preparing to kill Cofi, El Chivo estimates that the dog does not know better and that his violence is a reflection of his own life as a hit man. Meanwhile, Ramiro was shot and killed by Leonardo's personal bodyguard during a bank robbery trial.
At Ramiro's grave, a terribly injured Octavio saw Susana for the first time since she and Ramiro fled with her money. Despite being harmed, Octavio tries again to convince Susana to run away with her, but she becomes angry with the fact that Octavio is willing to run away with her after she has just lost a loved one. A few days later, Octavio was shown waiting at the bus station for Susana. He never showed, and Octavio did not get on the bus. Still mourning for his other dogs, El Chivo knows that his client and his victims are half-sisters. He left both men alive and chained to separate the walls with the guns between them, their fate unspecified. El Chivo then bursts into her daughter's home and leaves him a huge amount of money along with a message on her answering machine explaining what happened to her and why the family was divided. Just before El Chivo told his daughter Maru that she loved him, the answering machine stopped recording. He then went to the autoshop, where he sold the client SUV. The mechanic asked for his dog's name, and El Chivo called it "Negro" ("Black"). After El Chivo received the money for the car, he and the Negro left, disappearing into the horizon.
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Themes
Dog and infidelity
Each of the three fairy tales is a reflection of human cruelty to animals and other humans, showing how humans can live dark or even horribly. But the theme of the film is loyalty, as the dog symbolizes, "the best friend of man". Dogs are important to the main characters in each of the three stories, and in each story various forms of faithfulness or unfaithfulness are shown: infidelity to a brother by trying to seduce a brother's wife, disloyalty to a wife by keeping a deposit with subsequent infidelity to the mistress when she gets hurt and loses her beauty, loses loyalty to young idealism and rediscovers loyalty to a princess as a hit assassin falls off and then tries to regain grace.
Dogfighting is banned in most Latin American countries and exists as an element of underground economy in some working-class societies. Despite the violence, dogfighting provides an opportunity for Octavio to make money. This applies to life in the sense that participating in the underground economy gives people in the lower classes the ability to make money and experience mobility. GonzÃÆ'¡lez IÃÆ' Â ± ÃÆ'¡rritu was strongly criticized for her inserting dogfighting in the movie but telling herself that despite the horrible, dogfighting is one of the hard facts of Mexico City.
Inequality
Three overlapping stories are all happening in Mexico City, but due to class division, there is a severe economic split with El Chivo squatting on the outskirts of the city, Octavio lives in a working/working-class neighborhood, and Valeria lives in a high-rise luxury apartment. If it were not for a car accident, these three characters would never interact. The upperclasses are victims at Amores perros even when they are criminals, for example, El Chivo is employed to kill a male business partner and finally decides to leave both men to fight him alone. Although Ramiro works at a grocery store, he also participates in the underground economy by committing robbery. Octavio and El Chivo participate in Mexico's underground economy as well, to earn unpaid income and bring stability to their lives.
Violence
Amores perros contains domestic violence, firearms violence, and animal cruelty. Domestic violence is evident in the relationship between Ramiro and his wife Susana, as well as in Valeria and Daniel relationships when the two begin to become verbally and physically aggressive after Valeria becomes depressed. Armed violence is visible from the beginning of the movie in a great car chase to the end when El Chivo hands over his weapons to two business partners, letting them fight on their own. Finally, animal cruelty is quite visible in Octavio's dog fights to earn money from his dog, Cofi. Dog owners do not show empathy towards their pets.
Production
Produced by Zeta Film and AltaVista Films, production began on 12 April 1999.
DVD Amores perros has a commentary track, by the director and screenwriter. The controversial aspect of the film is the sequence of dog fights. GonzÃÆ'¡lez IÃÆ' Â ± ÃÆ'¡rritu explains that no dogs are harmed during the making of Amores perros . In scenes where dogs seem to be attacking each other, they actually play. Their muzzle is covered with good fishing rods, so they can not bite other dogs. In pictures where dogs die or die, they are drugged (under the supervision of Mexican SPCA). The grittiness of the scene is reinforced by fast cuts and sound effects. Another unusual aspect of Amores perros production is the danger to the cast and crew during filming in the poor parts of Mexico City. The director and some of the crew were really robbed by street gangs. Directed cuts include a cameo from Japanese veteran singer Kazuyo Togawa singing A cappella, credited as "Fat Lady".
Reception and rewards
The film was greeted with very positive reviews from critics and received many nominations and awards. The aggregate review Rotten Tomatoes reports that 92% of critics have filmed positive reviews based on 111 reviews, with an average score of 7.8/10, making the film "Fresh Certified" in the website rating system. The consensus reads: "The brutality of Amores Perros may be difficult to watch out for at certain times, but this hard, solid movie packs a big blow."
- The film won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in English and Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix
- The film won the highest award in Fantasporto in 2001, exceeding In the Light of the Moon, , Auditions, and Rings 0: Birthday.
- The film won a Critique Prize at the Cannes Film Festival 2000.
- The film won the prestigious Grand Prix of Belgium's Syndicate of Cinema Critics.
- The film is nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film but lost to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
- Amores perros also appeared on the list of Empire ' 2008 of the greatest 500 movies of all time in 492 rankings.
See also
- Hyperlinked movies - movie styles use multiple linked storylines.
- Yuva / Aayutha Ezhuthu - Hindi/Tamil films with the same narrative structure.
References
External links
- Amores perros in IMDb
- Amores perros in Box Office Mojo
- Amores perros at Rotten Tomatoes
- Amores perros in Metacritic
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