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Summary: Fabuloso Trabajo !!
Review: Amores Perros is a tale of the lives of 3 Mexicans in Mexico City. Mexican-Americans now have an on-screen interpretation of what it means to be in our shoes, how much we value our lives, even through our greatest struggles. It is such a great tale of bravery and tangled love stories !! I recommend this movie to everyone. If you dont pay attention however, you'll miss a whole lot. I can assure you, you'll want to see it over and over again. I saw it 3 times an i await the DVD release. Alejandro Innaritu has earned his spot in Mexican Cinemetography for such a fantastic job. The SoundTrack is excellent and I also recommend it!
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Summary: The Best Movie Ever!!!
Review: The movie goes around the life story of different type of people and how it relates to one another in different ways. The director does an excellent job of relating every character to eachother. Coming from a hispanic background you can see how the movie relates to a real life situation!!A must see!
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Summary: Best recent Hispanic movie
Review: Alejandro Gonzales Iñarruti master piece. Winner of Cannes festival 2000. Is a great movie which narrates the stoory of there independet stories brilliantly jointed together in one principal incident of the plot. The use of moving camera gives it a more realistic look and keeps the audience in supence. It is a very crude narrative of who humans have degenarate into animals. It is full of symbols, so pay close attention to the real meaning of the tittle and the scenes them selves.
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Summary: sublime
Review: I'm a 27 year old lawyer in Puerto Rico and have enjoyed internationals films since I was in college. Watching this film is like getting into a roller coaster of emotions, one minute is crude and the other is sublime. The director demostrates a great potential in this first film. The film relates four stories of love but not the typical and the common denominator are dogs. The director remids me of Tarantino, in one word this film is mexican Pulp Fiction.
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Summary: RAW , ELECTRYFYING, BLOODY, GUTSY, BEST FILM OF THE YEAR
Review: THIS MOVIE IS GREAT. ITS AWSOME. IT WILL MAKE YOU SWEAT AND SCREAM AND RUN AND CRY. AND IT WILL MAKE YOU THINK ABOUT YOUR LIFE.
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Summary: Love vs Selfishness
Review: I enjoy a movie that is entertaining and mentally stimulating. This is not a 'Once upon a time' movie with a 'They all lived happily ever after' ending. This is the type of movie that allows the viewer to reflect upon one's own life and ask, "Is the love I share true, or am I selfish in my desires?" Like in the movie, it doesn't matter if you exist in the upper, lower, or middle class of society, we can all relate to the problems of love, or lack of love; whatever the case may be. Yes, it's true that there is a lot of violence in this movie, but not as much as exists in other blockbuster movies, or as exists in real life. I really enjoyed this movie. If I could compare it to a book, I wouldn't compare it to a novel by Stephen King or some other sensationalistic style author, but I would compare it to a short story by authors such as Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemmingway, Flannery O'Connor, Edgar Allan Poe, or Shirley Jackson. Amores Perros is a very good movie.
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Summary: Not for me!
Review: Ugh. Guess I hadn't read enough about this movie. It's definitely not for me. In fact I walked out after 30 minutes. If you like dogs and babies and don't really enjoy watching bad things happen to them, you might not like this either. I do think it was well done, and it's very intense -- just not for me.
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Summary: Dare I say it.. too violent?
Review: At the risk of sounding like Tipper Gore or Bob Dole or some other idiot, I think this movie is too violent. It's too dark, too depressing, too painful to watch. Don't get me wrong, I like violent movies. I think that all children should be forced to watch "A Clockwork Orange" and "Reservoir Dogs" until they become so desensitized to violence that they become WWF fans. Or maybe not. But violence definitely does have a place in film and, unfortunately, in life. The two films that "Amores Perros" is constantly compared to, "Pulp Fiction" and "Taxi Driver," are both excellent, nay, classic films that prominently feature ("star," if you will) violence. But here's why they're better and more tolerable than "Amores Perros," the thunder from down under (down under Texas). "Pulp Fiction" is bloody and violent and disrespects life, but it's darned funny. The violence, while central, is not omnipresent and overpowering. In "Amores Perros," there's no let-up, no respite from the horror. After two and a half hours, one tends to get numb and woozy. "Taxi Driver" is dark, and not funny, but you can see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. There's a point; the story's good; you feel complete at the end. Here, we're just left wandering, as is the character at the end of the film, along a charred black landscape. And we don't even have a dog.
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Summary: LOVE IS A BITCH, SO IS THE ACADEMY
Review: If you are bored with high-budget holywood crap and you are looking for a fine urban tale with real people in a real city, then you should see Amores Perros. This is the first masterpiece of Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, but this film has its seal from previous productions for radio and other media work. Definetely it is worth the ticket and of course the DVD when the time comes. I believe that el Chivo's Tale is the best one because it is about get even with the past. If after you have seen amores perros you are not convinced that the Academy owes it an Oscar, then watch Crouching Tiger for a poor imitation of matrix where pseudo-art movies meet old chinese martial arts movies. Anyway love is a bitch and so is the Academy.
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Summary: An epic struggle for love and self in the the teeming city.
Review: The official line is that this is the Mexican 'Pulp Fiction'. If we must be lazy, than the true comparison is with Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Magnolia'. As in that film, the godlessness of the society depicted in the interjecting narratives is contrasted with the godlike powers of the director, who creates patterns, contrivances, accidents at random. The effect is a conflict between characters struggling to assert themselves (in families, relationships, the society they live in, plots of the film) and external forces constantly buffeting them. The style is bleached 'Taxi Driver' and its imitators, but the philosophy is the Wim Wenders of 'Paris Texas', especially in the thematically central story of El Chivo, an ex-bourgeois-turned-jailed-Sadinista-turned-assassin, whose quest for his true self necessitates leaving behind the Mexico city that embroils the other characters, the gangsters, confused teens, abused wives, abandoned mothers, harried husbands, paralysed models.
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