The film is a pretty hard film to watch-not only because of the dreadful imageries of violence, but also as it tells the real world in an unfiltered way.Tratos y Retratos, Mexico's long-running arts interview program. Iñárritu’s first feature, and in that film he takes us on a mad journey to explore how love, loyalty, inequality, and violence function in different people lives through their own perceptions. From domestic to gun violence, Iñárritu exemplifies the utter chaos and dysfunctional nature of the lives of his characters in a world of terrorizing cause and effect. Also, the use of violence is a very important aspect in the film. It tells us that no matter whatever it takes, all lives are interconnected. These stories are different but when they intersect, their lives are changed ever after.
It also in a sense tells us that there are different stories present in a single city through different people. The severe segregation of economic classes is beautifully portrayed, showing El Chivo squatting in a dirty warehouse on the outskirts of the city, Octavio living in a working-class neighborhood, and Valeria living in a high-rise apartment. “Amores Perros” also has a distinct commentary on the inequalities of the three different classes of people living in a same city. At the end we can see El Chivo deny killing someone he was assigned to and instead tries to rediscover his loyalty to a daughter as a hitman that falls from-and then attempts to regain-grace. Also, Iñárritu portrays beautifully El Chivo’s loss of loyalty to youthful idealism as he turns into a hitman by using this metaphor. But when Cofi kills his other dogs, El Chivo sees his own reflection as a hitman in Cofi. From his backstory, we know he is an ex-guerilla and convict, who lives the life of a kind of exile in a dirty warehouse in the outskirts of the town.Įmilio Echevarría plays the hitman ‘El Chivo’ in “Amores Perros.” Photo: Altavista Films, 2000.Īfter the car crash, he finds the injured Cofi and takes him to his warehouse and heals him. This somehow showcases his lack of human contact and isolation from the rest of the world. The last segment is of the mysterious hitman, El Chivo, and we find out that he is surrounded by the dogs all the time. And at last when Richie is found in not great condition, we somehow feel this as symbolism for Daniel and Valeria’s relationship it becomes damaged and they don’t see each other as they used to be. Here, the two characters desperately try to find the dog, Richie, as they also try to find some hope in their relationship. Having a beautiful family, Daniel is disloyal to them and keeping a mistress (Valeria) with subsequent disloyalty of Valeria, when she injures and loses her beauty in a car accident, beautifully portrayed by the loss of the dog.īy the end of the segment, we all feel the relationship is falling apart and becoming dysfunctional.
Here the theme of loyalty or disloyalty is very profound.
We can see the two’s relationship is quite loving at first but after their pet dog Richie falls into a hole under the floorboard and goes missing, their relationship is strained. In the second segment, we see the bitter-sweet relationship between a higher class couple, Daniel and Valeria. Humberto Busto and Gael García Bernal in “Amores Perros.” Photo: Altavista Films, 2000. The themes of love, loyalty, inequality, and violence are recurring in all of the three stories and with each story these themes go one step further toward the final conclusion. But the themes of these stories are balanced in such a way that it never feels they are disoriented or disjointed. Though these three stories are in a same film, it often feels you are watching three different short films, one after another, with a loose connection between them these three stories are somehow independent in nature. The stories center a teenage boy, Octavio who becomes involved in underworld dogfighting, Valeria a model, who seriously injured her leg, and a mysterious hitman, El Chivo. Written by Guillermo Arriaga, these three stories, divided into three segments, constructed as a triptych.
The film tells three different stories interconnected with a horrible car accident in Mexico City. Iñárritu’s directorial debut “ Amores Perros” is a raw, gritty, and intensely emotional depiction of the lives of different people from different sections of society.
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