The film unfolds through three separate story units, which are ultimately skillfully intertwined, allowing the audience to re-examine the true meaning of life through shock and reflection.
In the movie, all “love” results in scars, the first story reveals betrayal, violence and pain, the second story shows the fragility and sadness of love, while the third story explores the distorted concern for social injustice.
The director does not hide the scars of love in reality, allowing the audience to feel the coldness and helplessness of reality.
2000 / Mexico / Drama Thriller / Alessandro González Iñárrito / Gael García Bernal Emilio Echevarría
Three stories about dogs, three saddening lives.
Octavar (Gael Garcia Bernal) lives with his mother, brother and sister-in-law, while his brother, Amilo (Marco Perez), fools around with women, works at a supermarket during the day and robs it at night, and is rude to his wife, Susana (Vanessa Bauche), and their children. In order to elope with Suzanne, he takes his dog “Goofy” to an underground dogfighting competition and wins a lot of money.
Who knows, almost to the agreed date of elopement, Amiro and Suzanne with children left, but also took away his hard-earned money, furious Oktava about the old rival to do the last game, the other side of the red-eye loss, shot and wounded “Goofy”, Oktava stabbed the opponent, driving to escape, the car accident.
His and his family’s lives take a turn for the worse.
Octavio’s car is crashed by model Valeria (Goya Toledo), whose lover Daniel (Alvaro Guerrero) has just left his wife and they have started living together.
The car accident has put a big dent in her career, and the dependence on…
