I can see the outrage over the comparison, but let’s not be squared for a second and look at the influence of ‘Pulp Fiction’ since its inception. That Quentin Tarantino’s film was a success brought many things, not all positive but transformative. Suddenly, it no longer hurtful for a movie to be littered with incorrigible and irredeemable characters, to have a violent and twistedly funny tone, or to have its puzzle structure deliberately thrown off balance until it made sense.
Tarantino did not invent all of this, but that kind of independent cinema could once again be mainstream, or even have a run in the rest of the world until it became an influence. This is undoubtedly the case of the film with which Alejandro González Iñárritu introduced himself to the world and anticipated himself as a superb talent of the new Mexican cinema: ‘Loves dogs’.
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The film, available on Amazon Prime Video as well as on Filmin, moves us from a terrible car accident to the perspective of three people affected by it. They do not directly intersect, but their stories will become intertwined from such a shocking episode. A whirlwind of well-charged stories (both in content and intensity) in a script as ambitious as overwhelming.
‘Amores perros’ is clear from the first bars. A very intense start in medias res a la ‘Reservoir Dogs’ becomes a declaration of intent to prepare us for what is a sharp-edged film.
The ambitious cross-story structure already makes it easy to compare to ‘Pulp Fiction’, but it is capable of adapting deeper aspects. His fondness for violence and intense sensation, although focused from melodrama, recalls that more indie Tarantino. his way of move through some difficult characters while continuing to explore their inner worldsher complex feelings and her motivations, makes her a better heir than many charcoal copies put out by Hollywood.
‘Amores perros’: polyhedral portrait
Of course, the rich world of ‘Amores perros’ does not end with Tarantino. There is a rather cutting and deep social drama, capable of rescuing details from Luis Buñuel’s cinema to make a polyhedral portrait of class differences. From the “waste” of society to the privileged. The dogs to which the title refers are not exactly literal.
The love affairs that are also referenced are not simple at all, and Iñárritu takes advantage of the two and a half hours of footage to explore them thoroughly. A lot of plot, a lot of hubbub, but ‘Amores perros’ also knows how to sustain itself in an atmosphere and in duly elaborated characters. A refreshing piece It continues to rank among his best works.before his torrential and masturbatory urge to show how well he runs anything is unleashed.