Amores Perros: Movie Analysis

The movie Amores Perros, directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, was a nominee for best foreign film at the US Academy Awards. The film has a great depiction of life in contemporary Mexico City. The atmosphere let off by this film describes social conflict and social inequality that exists within many Latin American countries like Brazil, Mexico and Argentina. Amores Perros is organized as three distinct but interlinked stories. The title is translated as “Love’s a Bitch.” The stories each deal with love and with dogs. All of the protagonists share an obsessive attachment to their animals, and also strive desperately for human relationships that elude them and that end in tragedy or despair. The film begins with the story of a boy named Octavio who lives with his mother, brother and sister-in-law in a poor section of their city. Octavio is in the opening scene of a dog bleeding to death in the back seat of a car as it speeds through the streets of the city. In the opening scene he is heading towards a horrific auto …show more content…
Terrorism led to a prison sentence, and now he is homeless, living in an abandoned building with a group of scruffy dogs he had adopted and dotes upon. El Chivo survives by carrying out contract killings on behalf of a former jailer. Echevarria’s story describes the social polarization that is bestowed on the city with emptiness in the lives of the middle class. He fights inequality and injustices within his contracts. He also doesn’t kill the beast dog Cofi after the dog kills all of his adopted dogs as he was trained to fight other dogs. Echevarria’s dog conflict reflects on how you can try to control social inequality with laws and regulations by a political power, but like a fight dog, people in society will always fight and resist being exactly equal in social status with all