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In 2004 a film came out of nowhere called "Crash".It won some academy awards but I won't review it because THIS film used that story telling idea and it was released in 2001.The film industry always copies what sells and this sort of idea of combining 3 or 4 different little vignettes has been around for quite sometime but "Amores Perros"made it popular again.Normally I don't like foriegn films because of the sub titles but this film being action and full of over the top TV"novella"style acting is a exception.You can follow it fairly well by the raw emotion.
The three vignettes are tied together by a car crash (sound familiar ?)caused by Octavio,played by the GREAT Mexican actor Gael García Bernal.Fleeing a dog fight,yes all you Michael Vick haters,dog fighting is big,like it or not,Octavio caused a car crash that sets this whole film in motion.My favorite segment is about Valeria a supermodel played by Goya Toledo who is having affair with magazine publisher Daniel,played by Álvaro Guerrero,and has her leg broken in the crash.Her carer is finished and Daniel must now take care of her.There is a scene where she complains of a mouse under the floor tormenting her and gets Daniel to remove it.The scene is a metaphor of her life to come and Daniel's quilt of causing her condition by the affair. I have never seen anything like it before.
I took off 1 and 1/2 stars because it is foreign and I wasn't thrill with the third and final segment.However it's worth seeing for that second segment alone and the whole idea of the dog fight not be a culture event is debunked and its long before Vicks case.It might be a little long at 154 minutes as well.Trailer URL follows the pix.
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