Amores Perros (2001)

Greetings from Lithuania."Amores Perros" (2000) tells 3 separate stories which are linked by a horrific car accident. All 3 stories are down to earth accounts of people desperate to live. I was really involved into "Amores Perros", a 2 h and 30 min. drama / thriller. Acting, script and directing by a great Alejandro González Iñárritu were all top notch. The movie is pretty bloody and gritty and the times, and it never started to be predictable or boring.Overall, "Amores Perros" is a very good movie. It tells involving and real stories about people who are desperate to live or survive. Very good movie overall.

"Amores Perros" is a rare breed (no pun intended) in Mexican film. It is filled with amazing performances and incredible dialogue. The movie contains three story lines that are interconnected by one event (This is why I like to call it the Mexican Pulp Fiction). The three stories have very different subjects but the three of them are amazing in their own way and somehow compliment each other.I love the way Iñarritu (who later directed "Birdman" and "The Revenant") gives out some backstory of the characters without having to literally explain and let the actors and camera do its work.In my opinion, the movie gets better each act. Starting with the first act about a poor and disjointed family, moving on with the story of a model that got injured, and finally ending with the story of a homeless man with a very interesting turn of events.The third act is the greatest in my opinion because the characters have so much more backstory and interesting pasts.I do not give this film a 10/10 because I do feel that the ending, although very strong for the third act, does not give a closure to the second and first act specially, that is left kind of open. Still, you should definitely see this film.

As a dog lover, this film was a hard watch during some of the scenes, but man did this film give the dogs honest character not only for themselves but their owners, which is the purpose of the story; we see the world revolving around the animals rather than on a human protagonist and how this dog-eat-dog world is always changing.Amores Perros is well written and directed, but this film is one of the biggest heavy- hitters I've ever watched. It makes you feel uncomfortable a lot of the time and you get stressed with the characters when the story calls for it. This film shows just some of the everyday chaos people can go through in Mexico City, and the dogs change with the people who own them. The people are only as good or as corrupt as the people who care for them; keeping that in mind, Amores Perros makes for an impactful experience that doesn't leave the viewers unaffected.This film is simply worth a watch. It's not a rosie-painted Hollywood flick; this is international art-house cinema that has a lot to say about human circumstance and city life of the underprivileged.

The movie serves the viewers with three sub-stories which don't really correlate. It opens up strongly with a sequence that serves as an anchor for all those sub stories. But the anchor isn't the only congruency point this movie uses. There are other quite meaningless rendezvous where the focus characters, who don't really know each other, meet and don't really share any line of dialog. But those smaller rendezvous serve well as time anchors, helping the viewers understand the timings of each scene. The stories also come very strong. Focusing on different backgrounds for each story, They each reveal themselves full of varied surprises and twists, although some of them are fairly predictable. The acting overall is just another decent effort. It sure is not really this movie's strongest point. But again, the story and the general story flow alone should suffice to make this movie good entertainment.