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| Monday, February 12, 2007 |
| Love's a Bitch, and then you die. |
Amores Perros
Directed by: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Written by: Guillermo Arriaga
Starring: Gael García Bernal, Emilio Echevarría, Goya Toledo, Álvaro Guerrero, Vanessa Bauche, Jorge Salinas, Marco Pérez, etc.
Man, what an intense flick. Let me jump right in! Sorry of this makes no sense...
Octavio is so naive! (He is also sweet, captivating and sexy as hell-- but naive all the same). He tries to be valiant and witty (and, to an extent, he succeeds) only to negate any braininess we perceive when he shows us what a sucker he is for Susana. He is blinded, blinded! "Anything for the girl," you know? And then he gets totally f*cked. Here's a lesson to all boys, men, and Boyz II Men who are reading: don't ever give a woman everything you've got. Especially NOT if she just got knocked up by your brother (AGAIN).
I love it at the funeral... Octavio is all scarred up and gimpy... he's just lost his good friend in a car accident that was, essentially, his fault. As far as he knows, his dog is dead. His brother just been shot... and he's still askin' Susana to come away with him. He gets an E for effort, doesn't he?
Susana, on the other hand, is a weak, dumb, bitch. She lets Ramiro f*ck her up constantly. She doesn't deserve Octavio or his affection and certainly not his attention (or his money! Damn, what a loss... although we ALL saw it coming). I suppose we're all guilty of giving our affection to those who don't deserve it. OR, we're guilty of accepting attention from those who we know deserve better than us... anywho. That's a totally different story.
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One scene that I LOVE: When Daniel is sitting at his desk at the office, smoking a cigarette down to the stub, nervous and wrecked because of the heaviness that is happening at home with Valeria... he calls his ex-wife. She answers,
"¿Bueno?" No answer. "¿Bueno?" No answer. Without a doubt, she knows it's him. "¿Daniel? ¿Corazón?" Daniel hangs up. For a moment, he needed her, he wanted her back because she's familiar and safe. Let this, again, be a message to all you menz out there: Don't leave your homely wife in the dust for some beauty queen... she'll get her leg amputated and then where will you be? (Joke. Serioiusly.)
Did anyone else notice the ringing phone thing in that story? It drove the ex-wife crazy, then it drives Valeria crazy... I don't know, maybe its just me.
::Jump::
What a crazy mess it is when the old guy gets the two brothers together, unties them, and leaves the GUN!? I wish we would have found out what happened there.
...Or, maybe we did and I just don't remember-- albeit, I watched this movie a couple of times. The first time wasn't enough! There is so much to see in this movie. Each shot is so intricately manipulated. One scene that comes to mind is when the old man is "cleaning up" by shaving and cutting his hair... every movement is fascinating. I didn't want to take my eyes off of him using the hair-encrusted soap, battling a dull razor to shave... using that nasty sink... cutting his hair unevenly... I think he looks better with the beard.
I love how the old man saves up his money to give to a woman that he loves (his daughter) and how we have already seen Octavio do this in the first story.
This is a movie that I would actually go and buy. And, when I say that I want to buy a movie, that's a pretty big deal in my little world. I own, like, 4 movies, and 3 of them I found in the dumpster at my apartment complex. They were perfectly good DVDs! Not my fault that people are throwing away decent DVDs... just don't ask what I was doing looting the dumpster to get my grubby hands on the Director's Cut of Nurse Betty.
I desperately want to see Babel and 21 grams now. I have fallen in love with Iñárritu. Ugh, I love it.
I gotta go home. It's late. What do you guys think?! |
posted by K @ 2/12/2007 06:22:00 PM  |
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