The title of this movie in Spanish is "Love is a Bitch".
This a multiple arch story line with, at the minimum, five main characters, with three story lines all interconnecting with a horrific car accident. Two things connect all the characters and the story line: love and dogs. This movie has a lot of connections with other movies just based on how the movie is set up. The multiple characters and story arcs reminded me of Short Cuts, Magnolia, and Pulp Fiction. But the one film it has the most in common with is Pulp Fiction.
This movie has a Pulp Fiction kind of vibe to it and Pulp Fiction's style is all over this movie, but it's no where as intriguing as Pulp Fiction. The production, design, and for the mast part how this movie is shot is very similar to Fiction. It has low budget, down in the trenches mentality that add a lot to the story being told. This movie is not great but it's good enough that the 2 and 1/2 hour run time didn't pass by slowly.
The only thing that really hurts this movie is the lack of intriguing characters, where as Pulp Fiction's characters really helped to make that movie flow (even though I'm not a huge fan of it, it did have some interesting scenes). There isn't a lot of sympathetic characters in this movie and when things happen to them, I don't feel sorry for them because of their decisions beforehand. The sign of a good writer is how they can make an unlikeable character either likeable or sympathetic by showing them in scenes that don't wash over how unlikeable they are but shows some inner humanity lurking within them. Amore Perros doesn't ever really do this, which is the one failing of the movie. Ultimately though it's an interesting movie if you're in the mood for a movie that is quite the opposite of what Hollywood is producing.
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