I can see their point but also think that they missed the fact that the animals in the film are mostly loved (even if they mostly die!) however it is love and compassion for other humans that the film shows the characters having difficulty with, and this is where the emotional impact of the film is not in simulated dogfights, albeit very well simulated dogfights that are hard to hear even if they are mostly unseen. And while we're on the subject, at the time of release I heard critics say they walked out of the film, refusing to watch cruelty to animals even being simulated.
From the opening car chase to the dog fights to the silent pain of the model looking out where her image once hung in all these different moments I thought he did a great job and visually the film was never dull once no matter if it was set in a penthouse flat or a basement of an old building with the blood of dead dogs.
However, as a film debut this is an amazing piece of work and is relentlessly impressive. I think the problem with this film for me was not the fact that three stories were intermingled but that I didn't think they were actually mixed well the way the film moves away from characters before concluding their section (eg Octavia), the way the stories are actually quite separate from one another, these things and other I felt weakened the films although each story was strong on it's own I just felt that story 2 was such a change to the film that it hurt it. Story two finishes before story three begins, and therefore it was easier to move on. Anyway, the third story is a satisfying ending to the film and drew me back in emotionally where the second story had cut me off by it's abrupt start. Maybe it was the rich lifestyles of the characters in story two that stopped me caring as much I don't know but I know that the contrast between one & two made it more obvious how much the pace had dropped especially when we are left wanted to know what happened to the characters we had spent an hour getting to care about. The third story saw it return to a much more involving story of pain and the grinding out of life (as in 'getting by'). It was based around an urban myth of sorts and wasn't as good even if it did pick up towards the end. However the second story knocked the wind out of it for a moment, and seemed to lack the emotion of the first. It was violent, exciting and yet had a human element to it as well. >From the opening car chase that results in the crash that the film spirals outwards from like debris, through for most of the first hour, I was hooked the pace was great and the story gripping.
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With it's appearance on TV (BBC4 showing itself to really be a 'place to think' and a wonderful channel to have) I took the opportunity to watch it, expecting a film that would match the good things I had heard about it. After seeing 21 Grams I knew that I had to get round to seeing this film. These three lives come together in a car crash that acts as a catalyst in changing their lives. Finally an ex-convict and guerrilla mourns the wife he left decades ago and longs to meet the daughter who thinks he is dead but is also contracted to kill a businessman. A beautiful young model signs a lucrative contract with a perfume company and moves into her new flat with her lover only for her tragedy to strike and her dog to go missing. Nick RiganasĪ young man gets into the world of illegal dog fighting in order to get enough money together to be able to run away with his brother's wife, but in the meantime he starts tension with another dog owner. In the end, even though all the weary characters, men and beasts, wish for a bright future, in this life-changing journey in the pursuit of love, sometimes infidelity, sin and death can get in the way. Lastly, Chivo, an ex-guerrilla vagabond, after abandoning his little daughter, unable to make up for lost time, he channels his love to the city's strays and a mortally wounded Rottweiler. And then unexpectedly, Valeria, a stunning woman and famous supermodel, will cross paths with Octavio, while in the meantime, her pampered little dog Richie manages to vanish into thin air in the confined space of her apartment. Octavio, a rebellious adolescent who is secretly in love with his sister-in-law, dreams of escaping his miserable life, and for this reason, he enters reluctantly the obscure world of dog fighting with his lethal dog Cofi. On the brink of the new Millennium in the bustling City of Mexico, one horrible car accident intertwines inextricably the lives of three perfect strangers.