Cinema, Media and Society: The Trilogy of Life by Alejandro González Iñarritu

This article intends to analyze three works of Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, pieces of his Trilogy of Life: Amores Perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003) and Babel (2006). The goal is to highlight and mark a kind of character in each one of the films, considering as a criterion the focus on masculine characters, given the situation of the lacking specific main characters in the entire trilogy. The methodology used is narratology. This essay aims to explain the complex world of this trilogy, analyse characters and key issues, in order to understand the perspective of the director and his objectives when he created this trilogy.