Amores Perros

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's first feature is built around a single collision and the three stories that meet at it. A teenager pulls his brother's dog into the underground fighting circuit, a model's career ends when the crash shatters her leg, and a former guerrilla turned drifter watches it all from the margins. Written by Guillermo Arriaga, the structure cuts between them so each story shadows the others. It is violent and loud and shot with restless energy, but underneath the noise it is about how loyalty and need wreck the people who feel them most.