Unfortunately for him, a cop is in the bank and the cop’s partner enters and shoots Ramiro. While Octavio ends up being badly hurt, Jorge dies.ĭays later, Octavio is recovering. Octavio cuts a red light and smashes into another car. Octavio and his friend Jorge are chased by Jarocho’s men. Does Jarocho die? We don’t know, we are not shown. In retaliation, Octavio stabs Jarocho and makes a run for it. That was his plan all along, to kill Octavio’s winning dog and put an end to the streak. The fight starts Cofi begins to win but Jarocho shoots Cofi. Jarocho comes back with a high stake private dog fight challenge and Octavio agrees. This pisses off Octavio, quite obviously. Susana takes all of the “run away” savings and leaves. Octavio thinks that he is at the top of his game but Susana and Ramiro decide to leave. Octavio uses his dog fight connections and get Ramiro beaten up pretty bad. Ramiro finds out about Octavio winning at the dog fights and demands a part of the winnings. She needs sexual release and Octavio means nothing more to her. Susana, however, is never sold into the concept of leaving Ramiro and running away. Octavio and Susana are shown to regularly make-out and part of the winnings are stashed in to their “run away” savings. Jarocho’s dogs constantly get killed by Cofi. Octavio realizes Cofi’s strength and starts making loads of money at dog fights.
Jarocho is pissed off (for his own stupidity) and goes over to Octavio and demands for money. He thinks he will have some fun unleashing his winning dog on Cofi. Jarocho, the villain of the story per say, happens to have won a dog fight and sees Cofi. One of the instances Cofi is loose, he wanders into an area near a dog fight. She says no at first but is eventually shown to agree with the plan. Octavio loves Susana and wants her to run away with him. He cheats on his wife with a co-worker at the supermarket. Ramiro is employed in a supermarket but commits robbery of small stores to make a few extra bucks. He is about to shoot him, but stops himself, deciding that Cofi’s aggression is a result of the cruel way humans have treated him and the violence that has been conditioned into him.Octavio lives with his mother, brother Ramiro and his brother’s wife Susana. In a scene that captures the central message of the film, El Chivo returns home to find that one of his dogs, Cofi, who had been used for dogfighting, has killed all the other dogs. However, something that links all the characters are dogs throughout the film dogs are used to aid Iñárritu’s criticism of animal cruelty, violence and machismo. In illustrating this separation of people all living within the same city, Iñárritu highlights the extreme class and wealth divisions within Mexico City divisions that are still present today. Had it not been for the car crash, the lives of the aforementioned characters would never have crossed paths. Lastly, and even more distinguished, is El Chivo (Emilio Echevarría), a hitman living in squalor in the outskirts of Mexico City with his pack of rescued stray dogs. This provides a stark contrast to the second story, which depicts the cushy upper-class lives of a Daniel (Álvaro Guerrero) and his Spanish supermodel girlfriend Valeria (Goya Toledo).
Desperately in love with his brother’s wife Susana (Vanessa Bauche), Octavio gets involved in the city’s underground dogfighting scene in an attempt to gather enough money to run away with Susana. The first story is that of Octavio (Gael García Bernal), a young man living in one of Mexico City’s working-class neighbourhoods. Set in Mexico City, Amores perros is comprised of three separate stories that come into contact with one another as the result of a car crash. It’s 20 years since Alejandro González Iñárritu directed Amores perros, but its themes are just as potent today.