Amores Perros

Amores Perros is a Mexican movie. It was directed by Alejandro Gonzales Inaritu. This production was nominated to the Oscars in 2000. This movie shows three different stories that are connected in a certain way by unwanted events.

All starts with Octavio (Gael Garcia Bernal) who is in love of Susana (Vanessa Bauche), his sister in law. Apparently he was always in love of her but he kept that in silence and more when she married her brother. The fact of living under the same roof made him have a bigger desire for her and with more reason because of the bad treat that she was given by his brother. Some passions are bigger than others and his case was not the exception. He decided to earn money by making his dog fight in illegal “dog fights”. This was in order to give Susana all the things that she needed and to run away with her. What he didn’t know is that she could later escape with his brother taking all the money that he was saving. This event made him feel lost and decided to make his dog fight for the last time. Due to the envy provoked by his winning dog someone decided to shot at the animal. This caused the fury of Octavio who stabbed the shooter and run away.

In the rush to escape and to take his dog to the veterinarian he collide his car with the one of a known model. She was Valeria, a girl that just had moved with his lover; Luis; the same day. This crash changed completely Valeria’s life. From a top model she passed to be an invalid girl. This brought many fights and problems in the relationship. But looks like the love for each other made them over take this. Now she could live her life with Luis and her dog. Here is when another story is told. When the crash between Octavio’s and Valeria’s cars happen an old man rushed to the car to steal some goods of the occupants. He also found Octavio’s dog and cured him to later treat him as him. This man was a man who was responsible for many killings. He was a killer. However, he only wanted money to give it to her daughter. The story ends with this man trying to start a new life. In the other hand Octavio realized that he could never be love by the woman of his dreams.

I found this story very interesting at the beginning. The plot about the dog fights and how Octavio was making a living out of this was very interesting. However, when the director switches the story to a start a new one it started to get a little boring. I was engaged by the first story and the only reason I kept watching was to go back to Octavio’s story and see the outcome. I think the stories were interesting but they didn’t have the same balance of intensity. If the first part of this movie is taken away, I don’t think that there could have been any interest at all to keep watching this movie.