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Summary: Best film of 2000
Review: I loved everything about this film. The acting was impeccable and the storyline was laid out masterfully. This is modern cinema at its best.
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Summary: translation
Review: Amores Perros actually means "Loving Dogs" not "Love is a bitch" (that translates into "Amor es una perra")
I think what they mean when comparing Perros to Pulp is the visual aspect of the movie, not the story. The story to Perros is much more deep than Pulp and it really is a story of "LOVE" and the many forms in which it takes (from the love which dogs have for their human companions which, in this trio of stories, brings out the love which humans have not only for their dogs but also for other humans).
Great actors which brings to life a great story.......this is what all films should strive for!!
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Summary: Excellente!
Review: Hats off to all of the Mexican directors. You have done very well so far. Mexican cinema doesn't seem to be doomed to the fate of many other countries where all the films are boring and cliched.
Amores Perros is a highly original film that takes on the ambitious task of connecting three plotlines. It actually does a pretty good job even if there are a few holes. However, everything else is so good that the flaws are almost unnoticeable.
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Summary: confrontational and resonant
Review: Ineffable is perhaps the only word needed in a review of such a profound, affecting, and unforgivingly confrontational film. A complex examination of humanity told through a collection of connected stories, Amores Perros is a visceral, interesting, and difficult to quantify exhibition of realism.
Revolving around three stories that bleed together flawlessly, this film exposes a very honest examination of the perils of life. Not catered to in the slightest, the audience experiences the film in a voyeuristic manner, ending up feeling compelled, not forced, to feel the emotion of Susana rejecting Octavio, the hardships of disability and new relationships with Daniel and Valeria, and the gradual human empathy gestated within hate as El Chivo pours his heart out to the answering machine of his neglected daughter. It is far more complicated than this rough description, however, as Amores Perros is a directly affecting film that needs to be experienced to fully realize, somehow remaining elusive of the shamefully inept capabilities of human language.
Visually gritty, Amores Perros features a perpetually nervous voyeur camera shaking as characters use the best of their flawed human capacities to deal with the powerful of hate and love. Lighting is consistently cold, keeping a and an unforgiving quest to show truly top grade actors in the most honest and realist manner. Conventions from the cinema of cool are employed sparingly, with infrequent forays into unashamedly addictive music and equally infrequent ventures into noticeable editing.
Amores Perros is a gritty and realistic depiction of extreme reality that somehow never feels pushed, avoiding what would otherwise be gratuitous attempts to give characters exciting tragedies to endure. As they suffer at the hands of one another, characters in this film must deal with the often tragic ramifications of their own decisions, and deal with being similarly affected by the decisions of others around them. Honest, challenging, and well-made by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Amores Perros is a memorable journey into the uncompromisingly real.
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Summary: Grisly, unsettling and profound; overlong
Review: It's been compared to Pulp Fiction, but this is a very different movie. Yes, the director uses some techniques that remind you of Tarantino's second venture,but that's where the similarities end. Oh, yes, there is a second resemblance in that both offer unappetizing levels of violence and harsh language.
But Amores Perros is a far more moving film than Pulp Fiction.Tarantino, for all his obvious skills, is unable to get you to feel for his characters. Inarritu's(the director of Amores Perros'), greatest talent, on the other hand, is his ability to show you their very essence. Sometimes, however, they do appear to be somewhat shallow and naively romantic, but that is to be expected, perhaps, in a movie that tries to explore so many dimensions of modern urban life.
The only notable flaw with the movie is its length,which was also my chief gripe with "Pulp Fiction". That however, is the major drawback of the whole medium of cinema--unlike a book, a movie just cannot hope to go on indefinitely, even if it is a very good one. Still, a very good movie is a very good movie, even if it does tire viewers out towards the end, and Innaratu's debut definitely falls in that rank. It could have been even better, it could have been excellent with some more editing perhaps, but this being a first movie,and one that comes from a country that isn't known to have a particularly strong cinematic tradition (perhaps I am ignorant), is allowed to have a few warts.
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Summary: Graphic to dog-lovers, amazing to all
Review: Amores Perros is a jumble of adventures perfectly woven into one another to create a mental journey through the characters and youself as well. I cannot speak Spanish but I would guess that the title Love's a Bitch is somehow linked to dog fights (bitch as female dog). For the foreign film fanatic, this is a must see and must have. When you watch a movie in a language you can't understand, you tend to notice more about the movie then the dialogue (which is still great, not to put the wrong idea across). Overall, this movie has proven itself to be one beautiful masterpiece.
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Summary: Shocking cinema
Review: Regardless of previous bad reviews here at Amazon.com, this film is one of the most shockingly best movies since Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. The reviewers are probably expecting a hollywood ending; fake and happy. All through out, the music, art direction, costuming, cinematography, writing, and directing were all instrumental in making this film believable. High praises for director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu for an excellent debut film. One of the best films foreign, independent, or otherwise to come out in some time.
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Summary: "If you want to make God laugh . . . tell Him your plans."
Review: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "Amores Perros" is a noble attempt to restore some much-needed vitality and energy to the film medium. However, it is a muddled piece of work that ultimately proves to be both dynamic and lacking. The events of three different stories are woven together. "Octavio and Susana" revolves around a forbidden love affair and a frenzied car chase in which one of the cars is carrying a severely wounded dog. The chase eventually ends in a horrific car crash. "Daniel and Valeria" is a tale about a television producer (Alvaro Guerrero) who leaves his family for a model and actress (Goya Toledo). Their romantic bliss is disrupted by the disappearance of the woman's dog and her involvement in the car crash from the previous story. "El Chivo and Maru" is about a mysterious man (Emilio Echevarria) who is much more dangerous than his run-down appearance would suggest. "Amores Perros" is just too long and too disjointed. It is ambitious filmmaking in the sense that it abandons all pretenses at conventional storytelling, but the loose connections between the separate stories are just too loose to create a solid, satisfying narrative tapestry. Its morally-ambiguous characters are a welcome departure from the goody-goody stock characterizations that occupy too many Hollywood productions these days, but they do not exist to further any coherent theme or story. Rather, they are there merely to produce sensation. "Amores Perros" is admirable for capturing the stark nature and feel of the darker aspects of the world we live in and for its unflinching and sometimes dazzling filmmaking craftsmanship. However, the film does not come together when all is said and done and fails to leave behind any kind of lasting impression.
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