Blog 3

In this scence of the foreign film Amores Perros by Alejnadro Inarritu, we witness an event that syncs up three different stories. This scene is significant because it’s the bridge that connects all three stories, although we are seeing the events fold through the point of view of the third’s story main character “the goat”. We start the scene in where the character the goat, is being filmed in a over-the-shoulder shot where he is seeing what his victim is doing through the window. The next shot we see “the goats” face and we see where the car crash takes place. In addition, the director also establishes where his cart was left before he heads towards the car crash. Inarritu breaks the 180 rule, and we see the the goat walking towards the car crash facing us. This constant break of the 180 rule is there to give a sense of chaos, together with close up shots of the people the scene gives a sense of danger as well as showing chaos. There are a lot of matched up shots, an example is when the goat is trying to open the door from the car, this scene is vital since the audience gets to see the inside of the car while he finishes in opening the car’s door. More matched shots, are followed when they are taking the body out of the car and the ambulance arriving. There is this constant flow of jump cuts, that depict the action that the goat is doing. In addition, POV is very important in this movie because it allows the audience to enter the protagonist mind. We constantly see what the goat sees, the money which he takes but more importantly the dog. We first see the dog inside the car and lastly when the goat sees the dog on the floor later in the sequence.