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Actors: Gael García, Vanessa Bauche, Emilio Echevarria
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Amores Perros |
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AMORES PERROS is a movie directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu in 2000. The picture was presented in numerous film festivals, won two prizes at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
The film relates three stories linked by the role played by dogs in each one of them and by a car accident that involves all of the protagonists.
The first story entitled "Octavio and Susana" is a story set in the Mexican lower classes. Octavio is in love with his brother's wife and tries to earn enough money to leave the city with her by engaging his dog in wild dogfights. But Susana hesitates as though she's regularly beaten by her husband. The second story, "Daniel and Valeria" involves two figures of the jet set. Daniel has left his wife to live with the top-model Valeria. But she soon becomes a crippled after a car accident and she spends most of her time looking for her dog that has disappeared in the basement of her building. With the days passing by, Valeria's love for Daniel will slowly fade away like her hope to find the dog alive. The third story "El Chivo and Maru" tells the story of a man who's left his family 20 years ago to become a guerillero. Released from jail, he's become an alcoholic bum who takes in stray dogs. From time to time, he accepts to kill for money and waits for the right moment to see his only daughter.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Engaging drama about how three different characters fight against poverty, loss of power and their search for love and redemption. An extraordinary mexican film!!!
--Lindsay Jacobson, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Animal Story
Yes
Kind of animal:
- dog (non-Pomeranian)
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- scholar
Age:
- 20's-30's
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
Hair color?
- white
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Hispanic/Latinic
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
- white/grey
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) very skinny
- (man) average build
How much in movie?
- 20%
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Hispanic/Latinic
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- unemployed
- criminal
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
- eccentric
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
- 40%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) skinny
- (man) average
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Hispanic/Latinic
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- Mexico
City?
Yes
City:
- dirty, grimy (like New York)
- dangerous
- wealthy
- rude people
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
- excited
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- Spanish
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
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