Amores Perros

Amores Perros, directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu in my opinion is an absolute masterpiece whose only weakness is the length of the movie. The movie has three different story lines that intertwine together as the movie goes along. One of the story's is about a young mother who is in a abusive relationship with a thug and a odd relationship with her brother-in-law. The second story focuses on a businessman Daniel who leaves his wife and daughters for a beautiful model named Valeria. The third story focuses on a bum who obsesses about his lost daughter Maru, while taken part of his criminal trade. In the first story "Octavio and Susana" the young mother is in an abusive relationship with Octavio's brother. Octavio becomes upsessed with Susana and wants her to move away with him. To get money to do this he enters his dog Cofi into dogfighting where he wins loads of loads of money. They save it all up but Susana and the brother in law take it all and move away. Octavio than risks the rest of his money on a fight but its a set up as the other dogs owner shoots the dog and Octavio than kills the owner. The owners friends chase after him and that causes a crash with the model Valeria, which intertwines their two stories. In "Daniel and Valeria, Daniel has been in a quiet relationship with Valeria and he decides to leave his wife and kids to live with her. That's when things go all wrong and she gets into the accident which leaves her in bad condition. As they lose their dog in the new house, the relationship grows very badly and Valeria ends up having to get her leg amputated. Daniel finally finds the dog who has been badly hurt from getting picked on by hundreds of rats. In the third story "El Chivo and Maru" we see El Chivo is a bum who just lives with all his dogs and when he is paid to kill someone he gets the job done, but he is also very bothered by his lost relationship with his daughter Maru. He constantly follows her everywhere. The day of the crash he is right at the scene and takes the dog Cofi with him to take care of him. He nurses the dog back to full health but than the dog kills all of Chivo's dogs which helps him realize what he has been doing his whole life. When he is paid by one brother to kill their brother he just takes his the money and lets the two figure their problems out. With the money he places it with a message under his daughter's pillow. I was very entertained by this movie i thought it was a very good script that i followed from start to end. I was also very impressed with the acting of Gael Garcia Bernal who plays Octavio. By far this was one of my favorite foreign films that i ever seen!