"Amores Perros" (2000) Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

“If you want to make God laugh…….tell Him your plans”.

I stumbled over "Amores Perros" late into an early morning and despite being completely in the dark with a subtitled foreign film, I was utterly transfixed. Over two decades on, this would have been seen as a somewhat risky film in 2000 reserved for the dead of night/early morning, but after immediately purchasing an American import of the DVD I’d truly started a cinematic love affair for a storyteller that’ll break your heart like no other!

The first five minutes set the scene perfectly: A flash forward/flashback opening depict a frenetic car chase, bloodied fighting dogs shown explicitly and fully while introducing the majority of the main characters before a violent car crash brings the opening, breathless scene to a conclusion.

Welcome to Amores Perros.

Three very different stories interweave throughout, with differing time lines (a constant Inarritu theme), as we follow a main story for each Act of the film. However the remaining two are often woven into the main story, sometimes subtly, sometimes deliberately not so, but always to great effect, and always to engage in the narrative.

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The above opening paragraphs are taken from my spoiler free review of "Amores Perros" and one of my earliest forays into film writing and film appreciation over a decade ago. This review was transferred to my Medium blog site on 13th January 2023 and can now be read in full and for free via my Substack blog site and original updated article linked immediately below:

https://ramblingmusings666.substack.com/p/amores-perros-2000-63fc43e8f4dc

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