Amores perros, the generally accepted translation is "love is a bitch". In order to find out what it means, I also checked the Spanish dictionary. It turns out that Amores means "love" and "perros" refers to dogs. , put together literally means "love and dog". The three stories in the movie revolve around love and dogs.
Octava, who is in his early twenties, lives with his mother, brother and sister-in-law. The elder brother Amiro is greedy and cruel by nature. He beats and scolds his wife Susanna all day. He usually works as a salesperson in a supermarket, and in his spare time, he fights with friends and robs houses. Octava fell in love with Suzanne before she married her brother, but in the end, she let her brother take the lead, but Octava still has this love in her heart, and usually loves Suzanne very much. The individual begins a secret romance. In order to help her raise her child, Octava even took her dog, Goofy, to participate in the underground dogfighting competition, and Goofy did not disappoint her owner. She won the competition again and again, and Octava made a lot of money because of it. But all this angered the gangster who kept losing money. In the last game with the highest stakes, the gangster finally became angry and shot Gao Fei. He stabbed the gangster in the stomach, and then ran for his life in a car driven by a friend, but in the panic, a serious car accident occurred. Oktava was also seriously injured. At the same time, his brother Amiro's robbery intensified, and he was killed on the spot by security guards during a bank robbery. After returning home from her injury, Oktawa wants to take Susanna to a faraway place, fleeing the land of right and wrong. To his surprise, the person Susannah really loved turned out to be Amiro, and she refused to take the bus to the distant place with Octava...
It was the popular supermodel Valeria who collided with Octava. In this car accident, Valyria suffered a serious injury to one leg, so her career was mortally threatened. At this time, Valyria had just moved into a new apartment with her lover, Daniel. Daniel abandons his wife, children and career to be with Valyria. The economy is in crisis, and he has no money to repair the collapsed floor of his new apartment. While recuperating at home, Valyria's pet dog fell into the collapsed floor, and no matter what Valyria and Daniel called, they couldn't find a way out. Valeria's injury did not improve, and the modeling career should be over, and Daniel became more and more bad-tempered because of all the pressures in life, and finally the two began to fall into frequent quarrels. After an argument, Valyria locked herself in the room, and when Daniel finally broke in, he saw Valyria passed out on the floor. After being rescued, Valyria lost a leg, and her pet dog was finally found. In the end, Daniel and Valyria, who was in a wheelchair, returned to the apartment, and the two hugged affectionately, but their eyes were filled with tears of sadness.
The protagonist of the third story is the old man Martin. On the surface, Martin is a homeless man who raises a few stray dogs and survives by picking up garbage, but his real identity is an experienced killer. Martin left his wife and two-year-old daughter for revolutionary ideals when he was young. For the so-called revolutionary cause, Martin carried out a series of anti-government activities and became a well-known terrorist. But in the end the revolution failed, and Martin could only hide as a tramp to save his life. But missing his wife and daughter gave Martin a rare peace of mind, and he regretted it all day long. In an accidental passing, Martin rescued the dying Goofy from the collided car, and took Goofy home to take good care of him, and finally Goofy recovered. After returning from an outing, something very sad happened to Martin. Goofy killed all the stray dogs that depended on Martin. Martin raised the gun to Goofy, but couldn't pull the trigger. A policeman approached Martin and asked to kill his half-brother and partner. Martin didn't kill him directly as usual, but kidnapped the policeman's brother and the policeman himself into his dilapidated house. Put a pistol between the two and left... Martin freshened up, sneaked into his grown-up daughter's room, and put all the savings he had earned as a killer under his daughter's pillow, but he didn't. I don't have the courage to face my daughter face to face, so I can only tell my daughter about my regrets and thoughts over the years through a recorded phone call. In the end, Martin takes Goofy farther and farther to a new destination, where he may finally find the inner peace he has longed for...
Love and dogs form the theme of the entire movie, and in love People, many times, bear so many similarities with the various dogs in the film.
Love can give a person courage that he didn't even realize, just like Gao Fei, he can instantly become a fearless warrior for the beloved and fight to the end. For Susannah's sake, the skinny Octava won't succumb to her brutal brother, but also faced the risk of retaliation at any time, and kept winning money from gangsters in dogfights. In order to be with his beloved Valyria, Daniel quit his job, was in deep financial difficulties, and was not willing to bear the notoriety of abandoning his wife and children. When Valyria was finally amputated and his body and career were destroyed, he also chose to Persevering, standing firmly behind Valyria. After the failure of the revolution, Martin has actually died spiritually, but the belief that supports his survival is his love for his wife and daughter. He would rather become a professional killer and leave as much savings as possible for his beloved. .
Love sometimes makes people extremely confused and can't find the direction of life, just like a lost pet dog, although it is easy to see the light of the hole under the floor, but because of indescribable reasons, it has been unable to find a free exit for a long time. And let yourself sink deeper and deeper. Susanna was abused by her husband Amiro all day long, but after Amiro's sudden death, she still chose to raise the two children alone and rejected Octava, who really cared about her. Many people may not understand Susannah's final choice. Obviously, Octava is more worthy of her love, but what is really frustrating in love is that we may be able to deceive everyone, but we can't deceive ourselves. If you love someone, even if he is a heinous villain, but if you don't love someone, even if all the advantages of everyone in the world are given to him, the voice in your heart knows that not loving is not loving.
Love is also the comforting antidote to loneliness. For most people, the powerful power of love is to provide a warm support for the lonely heart. The lonely Martin lost his wife and daughter, and could only rely on the stray dogs. Even if the stray dogs were killed by Gao Fei in the end, Martin couldn't bear to kill Gao Fei, so there would be no last resort. . At the last moment of boarding the escape bus, Octava still chose to go back to find Susanna. After all, even if she was retaliated against, she still didn't feel lonely, but once she got on the bus, she was completely alone and wandering around the world.
The overall visual language of the film is crude and bloody, and the use of many pictures and shots shows the chaos and depression of real life, making people feel indescribable anxiety and fear in the heart during the viewing process. The director uses high-speed editing and slow rhythm to closely interweave the experience of love with the impermanence of fate, creating a special sense of cruelty. The main characters in the film all get love in some way, but all those forms of love are mutilated. Octava gets Suzanne physically, but still doesn't get her heart in the end. Susannah loves Amiro deeply, but is abused by her husband all day long. Valyria and Daniel ended up being lovers, but one was facing the second half of his disabled life, and the other was facing his incomplete family. The most tragic is Martin, who originally had a beloved wife and lovely daughter, but left his wife and daughter for his ideals, and finally spent his whole life atonement for this longing and regret. Real love is often so cruel, full of so many regrets and hurts, and we take a wrong step in the face of fate, and maybe we are facing a completely different life.
We are also what we have lost.
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