“Amores Perros,” December 17, 2001 (2000), video. We both survived this brutal Mexican look at a society literally going to the dogs. Three interlocking stories geared around a car crash and dogs all take one into the brutalities of modern Mexico, its connection to cynicism and lost radicalism, tradition recreation (dog fighting) and modern punk gangsterism among the lumpen, love and arrogance among the bourgeois elites, and the decay that comes with it. This is a society pitting dog against dog and brother against brother Limbs are lost, brother’s beaten, fidelity compromised everywhere, parents are drunk , and everyone betrays everyone else for love or a cause, both of which are false. Bronwen looked at me twice and asked “why are we watching this?” It’s very brutal, cruel, painful, but gripping in the way any car crash is.