Love’s a Bitch (Amores Perros) received an Oscar Nomination for Best Foreign Film, rave reviews, and prizes at numerous festivals. The film did not resonate with me.  I think as an observation about the human condition the film is wrong: yes, love can be a bitch, but it is not always a bitch as the director (Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu) implies. I also found the effort juvenile and lacking in perception. The stories we are told are old stories: a young man is in love with the wife of his brother,  a woman loses her body that is so central to her identity, an old man gives up his family for the sake of fighting for the larger social good and finds himself disappointed. If you tell old stories, put them at least in a new light. Otherwise we are better off hearing the originals.