"Love is a bitch" is a good film that was delayed by the title. Love is just a necessary point to describe life. What the director wants to express is human nature, ugly human nature, or human nature. The film adopts a classic non-linear structure. The protagonists of the three stories develop their own lives, and then collide at a point, and then begin the climax of the film.
The director chose three social strata as the background. The people at the bottom are anxious for the money for milk powder to eat every day, and they can only get income through supermarket cashiers, drug trafficking, and even dog fighting in the underground market. The heroine got pregnant and married her elder brother who was drug addict and domestic violence. Every time she faced beatings and scoldings, her younger brother came to rescue her. Over time, her younger brother fell in love with her sister-in-law and had an affair, but she repeatedly expressed her desire to keep her sister-in-law away. , The last time was at his brother's funeral. Because he was seriously injured in a car accident, he never changed his mind. He directly threw the time and place to his sister-in-law, but he didn't wait for anything.
The middle class is skilled and has small achievements in career. The editor-in-chief of the magazine has a beautiful wife and a pair of lively and cheerful daughters. The seemingly happy family has a pale atmosphere, so he falls in love with a popular female model. He was determined to abandon his wife and daughter to buy the apartment, a rich female model, and then the female model suffered misfortune. The perfect body was not guaranteed, and the disappearance of the beloved dog also made her physically and mentally exhausted. Under the double pressure, the female model's temperament changed greatly. , quarreling with the editor-in-chief all day long, and for a time he began to miss his former lover.
The high-class protagonist was originally a university professor who joined the revolution in pursuit of his ideals. After failing and being imprisoned, he eventually became a homeless killer. During this time, he lost all his relatives. After returning to society, the only companions were a few stray dogs. Killing people was like a waste of time, but he was very kind to dogs, and he had to give them food as soon as possible. And what made him feel guilty the most was his former relative, the daughter who was still in the world. When he had no assignments, he followed her all day long, and even sneaked into her house to look through the photo albums. When all the dogs died tragically, and only the "spotter" was left, the homeless woke up and decided to reconcile with himself and leave the country.
Three independent stories happened in Mexico at the same time. The original title of the film was "Amores perros", which means love and dogs, but the director showed more human nature. Each individual expressed human nature based on their own needs. I tried to analyze it with Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and it happened that the three stories in the film correspond to the physiological needs of the bottom layer, the belonging needs of the middle layer and the self-actualization needs of the high layer. And the ending of the story tells us that not all needs can be obtained, and not all needs can be met by jumping up and down.
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