The dogs begin to fight and the scene cuts away. Jorge is watching as two owners ready their dogs to fight. The woman driving the hit car is bloody and injured.īack alley dog-fighting ring. Octavio runs a red light and slams into a car in the intersection. The men that are chasing them pull out a gun. Octavio's dog is bleeding to death in the backseat.
Octavio (Gael García Bernal) is driving wildly through the streets and his friend, Jorge (Humberto Busto), is asking him what he did because they are being pursued by a truck. Octavio: "I'm possibly regretting my life decisions" There are three segments to the film three separate tortured stories of love that are all connected by one tragic and life-changing event. Adriana Barraza (as Octavio and Ramiro's mother) also gives a quietly powerful performance as a mother whose essentially powerless- someone who walks around in a constant state of worry and pain. The drama and brutality of emotions are masterfully done.Īll of the acting in the film is amazing, but Gael García Bernal (as Octavio) and Emilio Echevarría (as El Chivo) are especially phenomenal Bernal's performance made all the more impressive by the fact that this was his film-acting debut.
"Amores Perros" ( Love's a Bitch), acclaimed director Alejandro González Iñárritu's feature debut, is tense and all-engrossing.
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