Amores Perros
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Movie Reviews of Amores Perros
Movie Review: Don't watch if you need a good night's sleep!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an incredibly dark and disturbing film, but also excellent. What I loved about it is that it doesn't present human emotions in neat little packages, and yet it also is not one of those annoying films where characters do inexplicable things and you have no clue as to their inner lives. This film dishes out human emotions and behavior in big, steamy, platters of complexity and with skill and subtlety. The theme of the dog fighting will of course be extremely disturbing, especially for sensitive animal lovers. The film credits contain assurances that all the animals in the film were treated humanely, but the violence is sometimes near-impossible to take, even though highly edited. But I watched anyway, feeling that the depiction of this cruelty is a useful manifesto against dog fighting that may serve a positive purpose. The theme of the dogs was impressively well-integrated into all the story lines of the film and not just a gimmick. It is a hellish picture in which heaven appears, but only at a distance, yet despite all the darkness and violence, the film does have a strong redemptive quality.Movie Review: Great Mexican Export!
Summary: 5 Stars
The title roughly translates to "Love's a "girl dog". This movie shows what love can do to us and what it can make us do. The three interwoven stories of the movie revolve around forbidden love, lost love and love going sour. In each story, dogs and their relationship with humans play in important role. It is a very graphic movie with plenty of violence. I was glad I saw the video so I could view the behind the scenes featurette showing how the dog fight scenes were made as they looked very real. Everything in the movie was real to the point of being painful, but it wasn't gratuitous.
The cinematography was edgy with sharp, saturated colors and lots of great shots of gritty scenes, some so real you were glad you were only watching a movie. You could sense the stench.
The acting was excellent. I will be looking for more movies with Gael Garcia Bernal and Emilio Echevarria.
This is not a movie for everyone, but if you want to see something real that asks hard questions and has hard answers it's worth the time.
Movie Review: A True Masterpiece for the 21st Century
Summary: 5 Stars
Amores Perros is a very interesting and insightful drama. Three stories, and three lives, interlocked and forever changed by one car crash. A beautiful made movie by mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inaritu.
Each story, separately, plays out rather well. When the three are together, it's an outright masterpiece. Even with its long running time, it's still captivating, and also fascinating to see inside the world of these three.
Dogs play a big part in this film. The dog the guy has in the first story, the dog the woman has in the second, and the dogs the last one takes cares of are as linked to the tale as are their human counterparts.
This could be seen as animal violence, but it is not. The violence is never shown, but implied. With the way storytelling can touch our hearts, this film does it effectively.
The DVD features a commentary track from the writer and director, deleted scenes, 3 music videos, and a production feature.
Highly recommended.
Movie Review: Amores Perros
Summary: 5 Stars
The following review applies to the VHS and actual movie released throughout Mexico and the rest of Latin America--not to the yet-to-be-released DVD/VHS in the U.S. An extraordinary tale depicting the search for love and (life) meaning set in the largest city of the world, where resources, emotional and material, are scarce or misappropriated and animals parallel the lives of their owners-who often receive their upmost unconditional displays of affect and care. AP explores life with its intermittent signs of respect, responsability, and trust; and the most frequent displays of passion, which lacking intimacy, fuels an ever strengthing cycle of decaying interpersonal relationships. Beautiful cinematography and masterful direction, yet; a terrifying, shocking awakening of our consciousness to the realities of our lives. Movie goers residing in various Latin American cities reported experiencing a sense of invasion to their private lives, suddenly becoming overwhelmed by a repudieting self-loathing feeling...Movie Review: La vida como es...en la ciudad de México
Summary: 5 Stars
All right, you've read the comments from the U.S. guys, (or what I suppose are U.S. citizens) now it is time for you to check a Mexican point of view. The movie is amazingly well written and directed, photography can't get better than this, but the real thing...is the plot. It is all an all, what Mexico's city many different ways of living are about; it doesn't matter if you are a homeless bumb, a poor public school student or a hot shot business millionare. In this city they'll all meet sooner or later to find out that their lives are similar at one level...the suffering. And that's what the movie is all about. A series of events that collide on a big crash where all characters get to the lower point they ever expected to be in their lives. Love, hate, passion, pain and all the emotions you can think of are presented on this movie by the character's dogs, whom are driven unmercyfully to the same fate as their owner's.