4/1/22, 10:10 AM Project MUSE - The Allegory of the Meat Market in Amores perros: Cannibalism, Consumption, and Money Page 1 of 28 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/851583 Hispanic Review Volume 90, Number 1, Winter 2022 University of Pennsylvania Press Article View Download Save View Citation Additional Information The Allegory of the Meat Market in Amores perros: Cannibalism, Consumption, and Money Michael Abeyta This article argues that the allusions to cannibalism through snippets of text that appear on screen and the insistent representation of commodity and monetary exchange through visual associations, montage, framing, and dialogue establish an undeniable cause–e!ect, social relationship between money and violence. This indictment is bolstered by a complex network of interweaving stories and multilayered imagery that comprises an allegory of cannibalistic capitalism in Mexico on the eve of the twenty-first century. In this light, the figure of the neoliberal cannibal, the entrepreneur engaged in the commodification of violence, profiting from murder and the spectacle of violence, personifies this allegorical critique of neoliberalism. This interpretation of the film's complex allegory centered on the image of a meat market as a metaphor for cannibalistic capitalism Hispanic Review