He is hired by the wealthy Gustavo to kill a business partner (and incidentally, brother-in-law). El Chivo, therefore, embodies the Left’s various movements for social change which occurred during the 1960s and 1970s. Throughout the film El Chivo is seen caring for a group of stray dogs, whilst also appearing at the funeral of his ex-wife where he sees his daughter Mura for the first time since he abandoned his family to ‘set the world right’. The final story, El Chivo y Maru, follows El Chivo, a vagrant and former revolutionary guerrilla who now acts as a gun for hire. This leads to a complication of her injuries, the amputation of her leg and the end of her modelling career. Confined to a wheelchair, Valeria gets increasingly anxious about Richie’s safety and her own helpless predicament, and upon hearing the dog’s distress she makes a futile attempt to prise up the floorboards to rescue him. Indeed, the broken floorboards in their expensive apartment may symbolise the complexities of Mexican society, suggesting that even the most privileged have been affected by cultural and political instability. To make matters worse, Valeria’s dog Richie gets trapped after falling through a hole in the floorboards. After the accident Valeria suffers a serious leg injury, putting her new modelling contract in jeopardy. In the second story, Daniel y Valeria, Daniel, a successful middle-aged magazine publisher, leaves his wife and family to live in a new apartment with supermodel Valeria, who we recognise as one of the victims of the crash in the opening sequence. In a fit of rage Octavio stabs Jaricho in retaliation, which results in a return to the car chase and subsequent crash the film opens with. Octavio enters Cofi into the agreed fight but, after seemingly getting the better of his opponent, Cofi is shot by Jaricho.
After agreeing to one last big-money fight Octavia realises that Susana has betrayed him by stealing the money he had saved for their new life together. Cofi becomes a successful prize-fighter himself and makes a substantial amount of money for Octavio.
After Cofi, the family Rottweiler, kills a prize-fighting dog belonging to El Jaricho, a violent street thug, Octavio is forced to enter Cofi into a number of illegal dogfights. Upon discovering that Susana has yet again become pregnant Octavio vows to protect her from his abusive brother, Ramiro, and they soon begin a love affair. Octavio is infatuated with his teenage sister-in-law Susana, who, along with Octavio’s mother, brother and Susana’s baby son, live together in a crowded apartment. The first story, Octavio y Susana, focuses on characters from the Mexican lower class. In Mexico City, the lives of three strangers-a young man (Gael García Bernal) mixed up in the gritty underworld of dogfighting, a glamorous woman (Goya Toledo) who seems to have it all, and a mysterious assassin (Emilio Echevarría) who is desperate to reconnect with his estranged daughter-collide in a tragic twist of fate that forever alters their personal journeys.Ī tour de force of violence and emotion captured in a rush of kinetic handheld camera work, Amores perros is an unforgettable plunge into a world of brutality and aching, interconnected humanity.After the tragic crash which occurs in the opening scene the film is divided into three parts three separate stories edited together, each dealing with characters from different social backgrounds. Iñárritu brought the director’s electrifying visual style and bravura multistrand storytelling to the screen with the heart-stopping impact of a primal scream. Sending shock waves through the Mexican film industry and the world, this blistering feature debut from Alejandro G. Language: Spanish (with English subtitles) Cast Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal, Goya Toledo
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