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Summary: La vida como es...en la ciudad de México
Review: 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.
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Summary: A major film!
Review: "Let's say it up front: Amores Perros is shocking. A shock in its camera work, a major accomplishment on its own, in its writing, and finally, and most importantly, its subject matter. It's a shock because Iniarritu uses all the cinematic tools to make us feel and understand what we all have somewhere inside us, refrained or forgotten, that which we don't understand. This is probably why, even if the violent images, as well as the camera movements - is sometimes hard to sustain, during the first international public screening at the Cannes Film Festival, a long silence followed the end credits and little by little people stood up and gave the director an extremely long standing ovation. It's also why the New York Times called Amores Perros: "the first classic of the new decade," adding that some of its scenes will live on in film history. Yes, Amores Perros is almost a masterpiece. The film talks about politics, poverty, violence, modern society, relationships, love, betrayal, lost ideals but all this is said through the "mise-en-scene" of feelings and emotions. It's never delivered by a speech or a forced point of view, but always perfectly linked with the characters and the story. Even the construction, mixing past and present and different stories, is wonderfully brought to us by the characters and their emotions, not as a gratuitis artefact as may other filmmakers do. Inniaritu is definitely a major filmmaker, both technically and with the narrative, to convey what he has to say, which is a lot. He does it in a very subtle way, showing us for example how people care more about dogs than about other human beings. Once again, all the questions we've ever had in our minds are explored on screen by extremely rich characters. So why not a complete masterpiece? Because Iniarritu takes a major risk by mixing three different stories together even if they are linked by a crash. It is on the one hand what makes the movie so rich and so intelligent , yet also what makes it not totally perfect. When you get too attached to brilliant characters and fascinating storytelling, it's hard to let go and plunged in another universe. Still, a major director and a major film, definitely the most accomplished of 2001". Phil Ed for Au-Cinema.com
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Summary: Serendipity
Review: The movie is a commendable effort to connect three very disparate lives to a theme of love involving/and dogs. It's hard to relate love and dogs without seeming trite but the three narratives expel any cliche about dogs being no more than man's best friend. The stories are depressing and frustrating, of characters who will never have a fair shot at happiness and the lives they clamor for. There is no mercy with wrong turns, no going back to rectify, no salvation. Redemption may serve others well, but not the protagonists.Set against a gritty Mexico City landscape, the movie is an effective study of human frailty and failure, and the interlocking "perros" connection is a subtle reminder of how fate and destinies are all part of the same atlas of life.
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Summary: Excelent art film, a masterly movie 5 stars but it can be 6
Review: It's one of the greats movie that I saw in my life and I consider it in the history of the films, It's doesnt have comparation to Tarantino film, think in it is the same to try to compare Picasso and Van go, may be the begin of the film is alike to tarantino dog but is completely different try to compare the movie, it's simply try to depress the art of each artist, its not a good comment. This movie is more deeply, reflects the life of citizens in many countries the search of love accomplish with the suffering, the life of the people in each social status and their priorities in their lifes, the chritics saw in Amores Perros this conjugation of elements if you live in one rich country may be the perception of this collide feellings its not clear for you (What is hunger if I never feel it in my own body?), but it can be the reallity of life of one human being in one place of the world not only Mexico, this point of view is very far for any Tarantino movie. Amore perros shows the art of the reallity sometimes hard and cruel in the search of better way of life for some people only with their own experiences and their whishes like the only elements that guide them trhough the life. The car crash links the lifes of different social status people, it break and transform their current life in one way that they never though and show their priorities of one of them like vanities compared with the opposite life of the other people. The love of the assesin to save the life of the dog returned in dead of all other dogs when the dog love to the assesin (the dog love the assesin but it kills all the other being - dogs - that love him). The crithics saw in Amores Perros more than this short comment that I am writting the most important art cause controversy in many points of view, but cause immediate appreciation when you see it, if it wins Cannes is because it is a good movie that transform your feeling from the begin to the end of the movie, if you want to see the movie dont expect to see a Hollywood movie or any nice movie if you want to see that, see Harry Potter. In Amores Perros expect to see art, captured reallity of the cruel world for many people and the search of the happiness in each individual concept of it, sometimes may be never reached !!!. 5 stars but this movie must have 6
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Summary: Just about worthy of the praise
Review: I may be nitpicking when I say, "just about" but whenever I watch this film it always seems overlong. The problem is that every sequence is so good that I can't imagine where they would cut it down. Don't know if that makes sense but now for the rest of my review. From the first minute of this film the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. One of the greatest car chases for years gives way to a crash and a back-track (and forwards at times) in a move reminiscent of Pulp Fiction (how is it that in a the post Tarantino world that talky films don't work anymore but everyone can disrupt a timeline better then ever ('Go' being a case in point). I liked talky films). Here-on, the film works outwards from the various characters involved in the car crash. When I first watched this film I felt that the middle section (model, lover, dog, yada, yada, yada) but on second viewing this piece became the heart of the film. It has a quirky yet bleak feel which is easy to miss first-time as it seems not to fit the pace of the film as a whole. Some will definitly be shocked by the brutality of the dog-fight scenes but you should not listen to reviewers who claim this is a film solely about dog fighting. I respect that they could not watch the scenes but they should not write reviews for a film they have not seen fully. The dogs in the end turn out (for me) to be a metaphor for the lives which are apparently led in modern Mexico City.
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Summary: A great film...
Review: I can't say enough good things about this film. I loved the feel of it and the narrative. I don't know what to call this type of cinema, so, I will make up my own...hyper-realism. This film is hyper-real in every sense of the term. If you could convert a Christian Schad or Hopper painting into a film...this would be it.
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Summary: Feverish, Driven.
Review: "Amores Perros" is one of the first great masterpieces of the decade. It is a timeless work that will stand as a great example of feverish, driven and visceral filmmaking at its best. It is a masterpiece of film assembly and performance, never fails to engage the viewer and still vibrate with emotion and passion. The director, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has announced his genius to the movie-going public with this brilliant debut into the national scene ... The movie opens in exhilarating fashion, with a car chase through Mexico City that culminates in a disastrous crash that leads us into the first of three stories. The first is a romantic tragedy with red-blooded elements of murder and betrayal revolving around dog-fighting. The second story is a brilliant examination of superficial wants destroyed by cruel realities when a super-model loses a leg in the opening car crash. The last story is an emotional tale of a street-bum who is really a hit-man for hire with a shadowy past and a longing for his daughter. The screenplay is a work of great craftsmanship in the way it connects the stories but also how it creates characters and dialogue that feel real and raw. Inarritu has obviously learned from the masters ... In other words, "Amores Perros" is a collage of everything that has made movies fresh, exciting and engrossing through the past decade and now into the 21st century. It will survive the test of time and I suspect it will be a great influence on many future filmmakers. It may very well be the first of a great revival in Hispanic filmmaking, ... "Amores Perros" is what exciting movies are all about.
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Summary: APOYA AL PADRE AMARO
Review: Son 3 historias de las cuales solo una me gusto pero con esa tuve mas que suficiente y quisiera aprovechar para decirle al lector de esta resena que si le gusta esta pelicula no se pueden perder y quisira que apoyaran la nueva pelicula de Gael Garcia que tiene por titulo EL CRIMEN DEL PADRE AMARO que muestra la realidad de lo que pasa en la religion catolica y en cualquier otra y tomando en cuenta que el pais de donde es realizada esta pelicula mas del 90% de los mexicanos son catolicos y que el escitor es brasileno esto suena como publisidad y creo que lo es pero lo que yo esto apoyando es la libertad de expreson y mi ateismo GRACIAS POR LEERLO TODO.
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Summary: Amazing movie, good DVD.
Review: My only gripe with Amores Perros is really a gripe with the DVD. The cinematography is beautiful; this movie is truly one of the most stylishly-shot films to come down the pike in a long time. It begs to be watched. I didn't get a chance to appreciate the film on a visual level until after multiple viewings, due to the fact that the DVD only has English subtitles (although audio can be chosen in the original Spanish or optional French). Now, I have no problems with subtitles when I go to the theater and they're presenting the movie exactly as it was shot. But for the home market (especially with this film, the instant classic it is) it would have been nice to have had optional English audio.
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Summary: Makes my top five movies.
Review: This movies simply rocks and destroys me. Within the three interwoven stories one can find all you need to know about life. The metaphors are so rich and deep, in the script and in the visuals of the movie, multiple viewings are needed to scratch the surface of what this film means. It is gorgeous, see it now!, and praise the lord for films like Amorres Perros. One can try to see clearly and live life accordingly, or continue in pride, egotism, brutality and self-deception. That is life, that is this movie.
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