Furthermore, the flick played a major role in bringing attention to and criticizing the barbaric and inhuman practice of dog fighting in Mexico. It also earned a BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language. The film won the Ariel Award for Best Picture which is the highest award given to a single film from the Mexican Academy of Film. He later finds that he and the dog have much more in common than he originally thought. Instead of doing so, he picks up Octavio's wounded dog and takes him home.
And El Chivo is just a bystander who was about to perform his next hit. This collision ends up leaving her with a life-changing injury. Goya is the driver of the car that Octavio collides with. Now, we meet our second and third characters, a Spanish supermodel named Goya Toledo and professional hitman who goes by El Chivo. © Lions Gate / Courtesy Everett Collection This results in Octavio leaving and being chased by another car until he ultimately ends up in a crash. After he agrees to a private dogfight, things end up going sideways. His dog seems to be unstoppable getting deeper and deeper into the fight scene and earning more money. He's trying to pay his way forward through life by using his rottweiler, Cofi, for dogfighting. Our first character Octavio is a young teen living in a working-class neighborhood. What makes each of their stories different is their varying levels of economic social class. The other things that these stories have in common are blood, violence, and dogs. And yet, they're somehow all connected by one car accident in Mexico City. "Amores Perros" shows us three different characters living completely different lives.
Today we're celebrating the Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated film that started Alejandro González Iñárritu's iconic "Trilogy of Death." The must-see movie we're recommending you watch for Hispanic Heritage Month is "Amores Perros." The Film