Iñárritu and Prieto also chose different film stocks for the different plots, a bluer film for the Octavio and El Chivo plots and a warmer tone for Valeria. And the filmmakers used, inevitably, a lot of long shots for the El Chivo plot as he prowls the city and looks for his daughter and his victims from a distance.
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Valeria is mostly photographed in the middle distance where most tv shows are photographed. The Octavio plot relies heavily on extreme close-ups in which a single face or even a part of a face fills the screen. Iñárritu and his cinematographer, Rodrigo Prieto, used different styles for the three plots. In the latter two, the family fails because the father deserts, while the father in the first is a brute. All three plots deal with a failed family. And El Chivo cannot connect with the daughter he has longed for for so many years. Valeria, it turns out, loves her dog more than her new lover, Daniel. And El Chivo sets out with Cofi across a black wasteland, criss-crossed with a network like the complicated interconnections in this film and, I would say, in life.Īll three plots deal with love, but always a failed love. Valeria stares bitterly as the billboard where her picture used to be. Octavio waits in vain at the bus station for Susana. (If you’d like a more detailed synopsis, with spoilers, you’ll find it at ).Īll three plots end with the main character alone and desolated. El Chivo witnesses the crash, steals Octavio’s money, and rescues Octavio’s dog Cofi who has been shot. In this plot he is hired by one brother to kill his half-brother (another pair of brothers who hate each other). After one killing, he draws glasses on a picture of his victim to make him look like his own earlier self he is killing his former bourgeois self. Having served twenty years in prison, he now makes his living as a hired killer with a corrupt cop as his go-between. Years ago El Chivo had abandoned his family to become a guerrilla and “set the world right and share it with” the daughter whom he abandoned for that noble purpose. The third plot deals with El Chivo or “the goat” (Emilio Echevarría), a derelict who wheels his cart around the city trailed by his four dogs.
End of modeling career and down come the sexy pictures. The crash leaves her with a badly broken leg that eventually has to be amputated because she keeps walking on the leg, trying to get Richie out.
They set up housekeeping in a gorgeous apartment where she fawns on her beloved dog Richie, to whom she is “mommy.” Richie dives down through a hole in the floorboards and doesn’t come out and doesn’t come out. The second plot deals with Daniel (lvaro Guerrero), who leaves his wife and two daughters for an incredibly glamorous supermodel, Valeria (Goya Toledo), whose sexy picture is on billboards all around town. (As if to tell us the grotesque hopelessness of this love, Octavio watches the old Lon Chaney Hunchback of Notre Dame on his tv.) He makes a lot of money and tries to get his brother’s wife to run away with him. When Cofi kills the fighting dog of a nasty gang leader, Octavio gets drawn into the illegal world of dogfighting. Ramiro works as a checker in a supermarket, but he makes his real living holding up drugstores. Ramiro (Marco Pérez) is the older son, who brutalizes both his wife Susana (Vanessa Bauche) and the younger son, Octavio (Gael García Bernal). The first story takes place around a household where a mother lives with her two sons and the wife and child of one of those sons and a dog, Cofi. The film begins with a wild car chase ending in a horrendous crash which locks three stories together. That is why Iñárritu shot the whole film with hand-held cameras, no dollies, and not even tripods. Central to everything that happens in this film is life on the streets of Mexico City.
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