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." 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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