He suggests that Jarocho let his dog mess with the stray dogs. Once outside, Jarocho's dog won't calm down, and one of his friends spots a pack of stray dogs rummaging through garbage in the alley. The dog fight is over, and Jorge leaves with the winning dog's owner, Jarocho. It is obvious that Octavio has feelings for Susana. Ramiro stalks out of the kitchen, and Susana smiles at Octavio in thanks, and Octavio smiles back. He tells Ramiro to lay off Susana and takes the blame for letting the dog out. He continues to berate Susana until Octavio tells him to "lay off." Ramiro begins to argue with his brother, and Octavio tells him that he doesn't even care about the dog and that he is the one that feeds him. Ramiro: "I'm mean and angry, deal with it." Ramiro (Marco Perez), Susana's husband and Octavio's brother, walks in demanding why she didn't bleach his uniform and does she know where Cofi is? He says, "you let him out again, didn't you, bitch?" Octavio sits down at the table with Susana and begins chatting with her, making jokes. Octavio walks into the kitchen and says hello to Susana and his mother. Susana picks him up, and asks her mother-in-law if she could watch the baby the next day so she can take a math exam, and her mother-in-law refuses and tells her that she needs to raise her own child.Ī bearded man in a grubby suit is collecting trash onto his cart on the side of the road with his dogs.Īt the dog fight, Jorge is watching in tense horror. She goes up to an apartment where her mother-in-law (Adriana Barraza) is in the kitchen watching her son. She yells after it, "Cofi!" but he doesn't come back. Susana (Vanessa Bauche), in a school uniform and wearing a backpack, walks up to a building and opens the door. The dogs begin to fight and the scene cuts away. Jorge is watching as two owners ready their dogs to fight. The woman driving the hit car is bloody and injured.īack alley dog-fighting ring. Octavio runs a red light and slams into a car in the intersection. The men that are chasing them pull out a gun. Octavio's dog is bleeding to death in the backseat. Octavio (Gael García Bernal) is driving wildly through the streets and his friend, Jorge (Humberto Busto), is asking him what he did because they are being pursued by a truck. Octavio: "I'm possibly regretting my life decisions" There are three segments to the film three separate tortured stories of love that are all connected by one tragic and life-changing event.
Adriana Barraza (as Octavio and Ramiro's mother) also gives a quietly powerful performance as a mother whose essentially powerless- someone who walks around in a constant state of worry and pain. The drama and brutality of emotions are masterfully done.Īll of the acting in the film is amazing, but Gael García Bernal (as Octavio) and Emilio Echevarría (as El Chivo) are especially phenomenal Bernal's performance made all the more impressive by the fact that this was his film-acting debut. He is about to shoot him, but stops himself, deciding that Cofi’s aggression is a result of the cruel way humans have treated him and the violence that has been conditioned into him."Amores Perros" ( Love's a Bitch), acclaimed director Alejandro González Iñárritu's feature debut, is tense and all-engrossing. In a scene that captures the central message of the film, El Chivo returns home to find that one of his dogs, Cofi, who had been used for dogfighting, has killed all the other dogs. However, something that links all the characters are dogs throughout the film dogs are used to aid Iñárritu’s criticism of animal cruelty, violence and machismo. In illustrating this separation of people all living within the same city, Iñárritu highlights the extreme class and wealth divisions within Mexico City divisions that are still present today. Had it not been for the car crash, the lives of the aforementioned characters would never have crossed paths. Lastly, and even more distinguished, is El Chivo (Emilio Echevarría), a hitman living in squalor in the outskirts of Mexico City with his pack of rescued stray dogs. This provides a stark contrast to the second story, which depicts the cushy upper-class lives of a Daniel (Álvaro Guerrero) and his Spanish supermodel girlfriend Valeria (Goya Toledo). Desperately in love with his brother’s wife Susana (Vanessa Bauche), Octavio gets involved in the city’s underground dogfighting scene in an attempt to gather enough money to run away with Susana. The first story is that of Octavio (Gael García Bernal), a young man living in one of Mexico City’s working-class neighbourhoods. Set in Mexico City, Amores perros is comprised of three separate stories that come into contact with one another as the result of a car crash. It’s 20 years since Alejandro González Iñárritu directed Amores perros, but its themes are just as potent today.
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