The French sighed that this is life (c'est la vie); the Mexicans were more direct, they cursed: "Love is a bitch (Amores perros)".
On the first day of filming, the director asked all the crew to hold a red rose, close their eyes and pray, and then scatter the petals into the sky together, chanting "Aba Eli". I don't know if he realized at the time that he used such a ceremony to start a long journey, and he wanted to spend just two hours writing about all the loves, hates, sorrows and joys that everyone will encounter in their lifetime.
One play, three pairs of people, seems to represent the most important moments in your life.
Octavio fell in love with Susana and thought it was the most important thing in the world. For this, he can let his well-fed Cofi risk his life to get the money he needs to elope, and he can make his flesh and blood brother be beaten to half death without any guilt. He only cares about one thing in this world, and that is the person he likes, whether he likes himself or not. Even if he is repeatedly rejected, he doesn't care, and even if he is betrayed, he still moves forward bravely. The line in the film is well said: "Even if God laughs, I still have my plan." Octavio said this next to his brother's coffin. In the wallet lost in the car accident, there is still a photo of the brothers smiling brightly. At this time, he was persistently chasing his brother's wife, do you still remember that moment?
When a person sees only one thing in his eyes, he becomes extremely powerful and at the same time extremely vulnerable. So, in the end, he was alone at the station, and when he didn't wait for that person, the sadness in the eyes of this limping young man with his arms strapped to splints was like the end of the whole world. At this time, he probably didn't realize that in this story, he lost more than his beloved woman. He lost his brother, lost his best friend, lost the dog, and—so pure and cruel himself.
And when Danial met Valeria, he was already old enough to give up everything. Although this middle-aged man in a suit and a successful career has left his wife and daughter, he still plays with his two daughters on time (in a deleted episode), and although his beloved woman is injured in a car accident and is home alone, he still has his own magazine To be dealt with separately. And although he thought he was mature enough and armed enough to face life's jokes lightly, he failed miserably this time - the first day he moved into the nest that symbolized a new life, a big hole was stepped on the floor, And this new life, which gave him infinite hope, was swallowed up by this spinning black hole in just a few weeks. The healthy and cheerful girl with beautiful legs has become a burden of hysteria at home crying in the middle of the night. After the amputation, she can never go back to the past. Open the door and return to the beauty of their "love nest" once again, as dazzling as the blank billboard opposite the floor-to-ceiling window, but the expressions of the two of them are so tolerant and blank, like prostitutes who are used to prostitutes, knowing that Whether it be anger or suicide, any attempt will not help.
And El Chivo, when he saw his daughter Maru at the funeral after many years, he had been played with nothing by life. The ideal for which he had sacrificed everything has brought himself betrayal and imprisonment. When his wife died, he only dared to watch the funeral from a distance. A man with a pack of dogs led the life of a homeless man, so old that his hair and beard turned white. A man who once thought he had lofty ideals to save the people is now engaged in a shameless business of stealing money from the pockets of blood-covered car accident victims. If this film is meant to be about the mockery of life and the impermanence of human affairs, then El Chivo has done it to the extreme. But Agado Gonzalez Inarritu has more to say. Despite life's ups and downs, El Chivo still retains a father's deepest love for his daughter. He did all the extravagant things, sneaked the door, picked the lock and ran to his daughter's room; and like a kindergarten child pasted his picture on other people's faces; however, when he opened the phone with trembling hands to leave a message, the emotion expressed by the old man , no different from any of us. His life, his regrets and pains, also share the same path as each of us.
In one's life, one gives love and reaps love. But love is a son of a bitch, you take everything you have in both hands, and it takes away everything that is left, and it doesn't give anything in return. However, you will not realize until very late, when you have finished your life.
When watching the back of the man and the dog in the wilderness gradually being covered by darkness, your heart is full of loss and pain, but the last line of subtitles seems to have a healing light: for Luciano, because we are also what we have lost.
Is that so?
What we gain from infinite loss is ourselves.
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