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Amores Perros

Original title: Amores perros
  • 20002000
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  • 2h 34m
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Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal, and Goya Toledo in Amores Perros (2000)
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A horrific car accident connects three stories, each involving characters dealing with loss, regret, and life's harsh realities, all in the name of love.A horrific car accident connects three stories, each involving characters dealing with loss, regret, and life's harsh realities, all in the name of love.A horrific car accident connects three stories, each involving characters dealing with loss, regret, and life's harsh realities, all in the name of love.
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    • Alejandro G. Iñárritu
    • Guillermo Arriaga
  • Stars
    • Emilio Echevarría
    • Gael García Bernal
    • Goya Toledo
    • Alejandro G. Iñárritu
    • Guillermo Arriaga
  • Stars
    • Emilio Echevarría
    • Gael García Bernal
    • Goya Toledo
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    • 421User reviews
    • 156Critic reviews
    • 83Metascore
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  • Top rated movie #236
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar

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    Emilio Echevarría
    Emilio Echevarría
    • El Chivo
    Gael García Bernal
    Gael García Bernal
    • Octavio
    • (as Gael García)
    Goya Toledo
    Goya Toledo
    • Valeria
    Álvaro Guerrero
    Álvaro Guerrero
    • Daniel
    • (as Alvaro Guerrero)
    Vanessa Bauche
    Vanessa Bauche
    • Susana
    Jorge Salinas
    Jorge Salinas
    • Luis
    Marco Pérez
    Marco Pérez
    • Ramiro
    Rodrigo Murray
    Rodrigo Murray
    • Gustavo
    Humberto Busto
    Humberto Busto
    • Jorge
    Gerardo Campbell
    • Mauricio
    Rosa María Bianchi
    Rosa María Bianchi
    • Tía Luisa (Aunt Luisa)
    Dunia Saldívar
    • Mama Susana (Susana's Mother)
    Adriana Barraza
    Adriana Barraza
    • Mama Octavio (Octavio's Mother)
    José Sefami
    José Sefami
    • Leonardo
    Lourdes Echevarría
    • Maru
    Laura Almela
    • Julieta
    Ricardo Dalmacci
    Ricardo Dalmacci
    • Andrés Salgado
    Gustavo Sánchez Parra
    Gustavo Sánchez Parra
    • Jarocho
      • Alejandro G. Iñárritu
      • Guillermo Arriaga
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    • Trivia
      For the scenes where the dogs appeared to be dead or dying, the animals were actually heavily sedated under the careful eye of the Mexican SPCA. Multiple dogs that looked like one dog seen on screen were also used, so that the same dog was not under sedation for more than half an hour and not more than once a day at a time.
    • Goofs
      For photos taken for the 2nd time in the photo booth, El Chivo is wearing the brother's black sportcoat, yet when he subsequently pastes the photo in the album, the sportcoat appears distinctly burgundy in color.
    • Quotes

      El Chivo: At the time, I thought there were more important things than being with you and your mom. I wanted to set the world right, and then share it with you. I failed, as you can see.

    • Crazy credits
      To Luciano: Because we also are what we have lost. Special Thanks to: "Abba, Pater"
    • Alternate versions
      The following are from the deleted scenes on the DVD:
      • An alternate ending where the camera is outside the house where El Chivo was holding the two business partners hostage and two gunshots are heard.
      • A comedic and tender scene between Daniel and Valeria which would have come shortly after Valeria returned from the hospital. Valeria wakes up Daniel in the middle of the night to help her get to the bathroom.
      • A conversation between Daniel and Valeria in their apartment where Valeria reveals to the audience that she had an abortion.
      • A brief scene where Octavio bursts into Susanna's mother's apartment searching for her.
    • Connections
      Featured in The 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards 2001 (2001)
    • Soundtracks
      Amores Perros
      Written by Control Machete

      Performed by Control Machete

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    9/10
    Do dogs have personal characters? Or they just try to be loyal to their owners? What if they reflect our personalities by means of their loyalty?
    Thanks to contributors, plot synopsis has been very well written. Amores Perros is included in the most important movies for the beginning of the 21st century. It marked a new epoch with its thoroughly life-like vision on a twist of fate. Then in a 5 years' of time within more recognized movies, we started seeing similar plot schemes telling different stories over accidents that binds each person's fate. One of them was Crash, and it won the best picture Oscar in 2005.

    The more you see this film over and over again you'll get to a deeper point where the lives and choices of the characters won't matter any more. It's still affecting in the first-time watch, but with an examining view the next time you see it; you're driven into a vision, a cast of mind.There were 3 main characters and 3 main stories from each one, which are nested altogether. If we look at these stories over the characters' relationships with their dogs, it's intriguing. As if the dogs exemplify their owners:

    1' Young loafer Octavio commits crime in order to earn money to make a living. He fights his dog Cofi in dog-fighting tournaments. How Cofi needs to fight for his life, so does need Octavio to commit crime for his life.

    2' In the second story, beautiful model Valeria receives a surprise gift from her fiancé to choose a puppy from a pet store. By time, the puppy gets used to live a super-luxury pet life; which is the same life style of her owner. Valeria and her fiancé's apartment unit is under a hardwood flooring construction. One day while alone at home the puppy falls into a gap between the hardwood and the concrete; thus stays stuck there and began to squawk, since she is not used to live without comfort. At the same day her owner Valeria gets involved in a car accident while driving alone, having no one to help her just as happened to her puppy. She loses her leg in this accident and her luxury life comes to an end, as same as the life of her puppy. She begins complaining like her puppy squawking.

    3' In the last story, the grim hit-man El Chivo saves the life of Octavio's dog Cofi, after Octavio gets killed in the traffic accident in which Valeria lost her leg. Saving him changes Cofi's life, he no longer needs to fight for Octavio's bets on dog-fighting. His life becomes safe and peaceful. El Chivo starts looking after Cofi beside his other dogs. Among the other dogs Cofi looks very ugly and dirty. One day when El Chivo leaves the dogs together at home, Cofi kills every one of them. His reason of killing all the dogs explains why his owner is a hit-man. As Cofi killed innocent dogs; El Chivo kills innocent people for El Chivo seeing himself ugly,dirty and strange among the people; like his dog feeling himself ugly,dirty and strange among the dogs. El Chivo feels bad about his dogs, when he finds out Cofi has killed them. Yet, he feels worse about himself when he actually realizes that Cofi's attitude gave him a lesson of life. Then El Chivo shaves, cuts his beard and hair, gets cleaned up and turns out looking like a gentleman. Cofi's attitude changes his life; his life becomes safe and peaceful just as when El Chivo saved Cofi's life.

    The vision we're getting when we compare these 3 stories is about the public loneliness of an individual. The only person, who can guide and who can help us, is ourselves. This loneliness brings our freedom of choices. With making our own choices, we build the essence of our character: Our quintessences. Life is sum of all our choices. In order to build our quintessences; we always face the risk, fear and pressure of the chance of making a wrong choice. Life makes it obligatory to make choices. This obligatory builds our inner crisis and develops our personality. To find the secrets of our own personality, we try to find someone or something else to lay a burden on the responsibility of self-search. Here in Amores Perros, the 3 main characters are used by their self-search reflection on their dogs.

    Doesn't this vision form the idea of Jean Paul Sartre's "Being and Nothingness"? Since Amores Perros hides the character views through the situations created by dogs; it is a movie that has no characters, but only situations. This is the systematic of Existentialism. If there was no situation or happening, there wouldn't have been any characters. Existence precedes essence. A person is nothing without his actions. So, a person doesn't have a soul(or a character) if he is not alive. Then there wasn't and won't be anything before and after our lives.

    If we don't believe in this vision, certainly the signs of fate that we come across in our lives must be delusion.
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    • Release date
      • April 13, 2001 (United States)
      • Mexico
      • Filmymen
      • Spanish
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    • Filming locations
      • Colonia Condesa, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
    • Production companies
      • Altavista Films
      • Zeta Film
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    • 2 hours 34 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital

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