Amores Perros (2001)

Sadly Over-hyped

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

There was something about this movie that just kept my attention. There are a lot of points where it moves slowly and it seemed like I should have been bored, but somehow that never happened. Even during the long sequence during which Valeria and Daniel look through their floorboards for their dog over the course of several days, I was interested in what would happen next. It's a story about largely everyday people with no special skills and relatively mundane problems. While the characters are not that vibrant, they are distinct enough to not feel cookie-cutter and be accessible to the audience.The main reason I watched this was to use it as part of my research for a paper on breakout films (this being Inarritu's breakout). Considering the limited money that was used to make Amores Perros, it's quite impressive and it's not hard to see why people started noticing Inarritu because of his work here. It showcased how capable Inarritu is behind a camera in a more modest way than his later successes like Birdman and the Revenant, which I think make Perros more commendable. The hand-held and tracking shots were used to put us in the shoes of the characters instead of just to make the movie look cooler. It's a human story, so it's good that Inarritu and his DP Rodrigo Prieto were able to strike a balance that showcased their skills while keeping the focus on the problems of everyday people.I don't want to knock the movie's originality, but it definitely rides the coattails of Pulp Fiction, mostly in the story structure. However, it was much easier to follow the plot of Perros than Pulp because of how Perros followed each of its character groups one at a time. While the car crash is the central event that ties all three stories together, I feel like it could have been left out without hurting the story. The central theme of the movie is, to my eyes, that nobody regardless of class is immune to struggles and problems. And all of them must fight to preserve and repair the relationships they have with the people they love. Perhaps it's not the best story of such themes, but it's pretty good all the same. Overall Rating: has 7.7/10.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu began his career as a broadcaster and Radio producer Hence his vast musical knowledge that can be Reflected throughout the film. Also his first pininos As a director, was doing commercials for Televisa, specifically In the creative area of ​​channel 5. In the latter we can see its side Creative and why not, his sense of humor, mostly black, like his Nickname and sarcastic. However in Amores perros what it proves is a Society, using as a point in common the canines, and Does in a majestic way, interweaving stories by means of a car crash. The performances are poignant in each of The characters, especially in the story of the "Goat" which is Capable of provoking fear and tenderness at the same time. The story that Could say that is the least attractive, would be the Spanish woman But that of Gael Garcia Bernal is touching and sad, as much as the Of the Goat. Inarritu's first feature is the reflection of what it is now. A successful winner of 2 Oscars, very well deserved

"Amores Perros" is a rare breed (no pun intended) in Mexican film. It is filled with amazing performances and incredible dialogue. The movie contains three story lines that are interconnected by one event (This is why I like to call it the Mexican Pulp Fiction). The three stories have very different subjects but the three of them are amazing in their own way and somehow compliment each other.I love the way Iñarritu (who later directed "Birdman" and "The Revenant") gives out some backstory of the characters without having to literally explain and let the actors and camera do its work.In my opinion, the movie gets better each act. Starting with the first act about a poor and disjointed family, moving on with the story of a model that got injured, and finally ending with the story of a homeless man with a very interesting turn of events.The third act is the greatest in my opinion because the characters have so much more backstory and interesting pasts.I do not give this film a 10/10 because I do feel that the ending, although very strong for the third act, does not give a closure to the second and first act specially, that is left kind of open. Still, you should definitely see this film.

The movie is a reflection on the cruelty of humans towards both animals and other humans, showing how humans may live dark or even hideous lives. But the film's theme is loyalty, as symbolized by the dog, "man's best friend". Dogs are important to the main characters in each of the three stories, and in each story various forms of human loyalty or disloyalty are shown: disloyalty to a brother by trying to seduce the brother's wife, disloyalty to a wife by keeping a mistress with subsequent disloyalty to the mistress when she is injured and loses her beauty, loss of loyalty to youthful idealism and rediscovered loyalty to a daughter as a hit-man falls from and then attempts to regain grace.