So he enters the seamy world of dogfighting, Cofi at his side.Ĭofi's a real killer, it turns out. When he learns that Cofi killed a prize-winning fighting dog in a street fight, he sees a way to finance his and Susana's evacuation. The household includes the teenage Octavio (Gael Garcia Bernal) his brother, Ramiro (Marco Perez), whose business is store robbery and Ramiro's long-suffering and pregnant wife, Susana (Vanessa Bauche).įate's wheels start turning when Octavio, who's in love with Susana, decides to save his sister-in-law from Ramiro's abuse. The story starts with a black dog named Cofi who lives with a dysfunctional family. And it takes an outsider, a bearded street wanderer observing the tragic theater around him, to make a difference, to turn things around for the better. Those who live by violence, adultery or vanity are undone by the same. All of them, in some way, are linked by dogs.Īnd in this biblically textured drama, directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, all of them will suffer judgment for their actions. That anguish ranges from gritty and realistic to the tragicomic soap opera found in Pedro Almodovar's films.Īs for the human element in "Amores Perros" (whose title translates as "life's a bitch"), we're talking about an unforgettable rogues gallery of Mexico City characters, high and low, all of them linked by the strange, ineffable forces of fate and circumstance. Set in Mexico City, where the streets teem with stray dogs, the movie's fierceness includes gruesome dogfighting (although it should be clear to most that these are depictions), sudden bursts of violence (but nothing you don't see in the average "Lethal Weapon" sequel) and on a less-bloody level: intense, almost operatic suffering. This movie, a triptych whose overlapping structure is reminiscent of such movies as "Pulp Fiction," "Before the Rain" and "Winter Sleepers," is definitely fierce and most definitely human. "Most of all," says Arriaga of his screenplay, which took 36 drafts, "I wanted it to be fiercely human."
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Novelist Guillermo Arriaga has the perfect description for "Amores Perros," the Mexican film that has won festival awards around the world and probably would have claimed the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film if not for a certain phenomenally successful movie called "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."
Emilio Echevarria plays a street wanderer in "Amores Perros."
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