The secret of his eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos - Argentina, Spain 2009) Directed by Juan Jose Campanella. By Ricardo Darin, Soledad Villamil, Guillermo Francella, José Luis Gioia, Pablo Rago, Javier Godino, Carlos Quevedo.
"I'm twenty-five years I wonder.
And now I want to understand everything"
When a movie hits the nail you want to tell everyone they saw him. It is the fate of fascinating stories to be told yet, still survives to its protagonists, passing the free time, and at each step of enriching experiences of each new narrator. But stories need a conclusion, even precarious, to pass on to others.
is the star in this intense film seeks an end to its history started many years ago and still continues to haunt him. " I want to write the story of the murder ": to tell the end is the only chance to forget, to reconcile the ghosts of the past that leave no respite to star in this touching and compelling thriller. Memory is the size in which they move Benjamin Edwards, a former assistant prosecutor, and Irene, Chancellor of the Court itself. The protagonist, came to the board, decides to write a novel, leaving the memories resurface of the Morales case, a beautiful young woman raped and murdered at home by a mysterious murderess. His most significant and complex case of his career, he also had a decisive impact on his private life and that does not stop then resurface. But the memory is enough to redeem a lifetime spent trying to solve mysteries and human misery? An empty existence, remained there still, forever crystallized on a crime unsolved a murderess remained unpunished, and a passion that has not been able to live through. It's too late to change the ending of this story that awaits, from twenty-five years, to be written? It is still the time you want? Esposito shares the same fate of the young victim's husband, whose love has been crystallized in what looked like a morning like any other and instead has become the point of no return to normality more desirable than anything else. And he waits for justice.
The secret of his eyes not only a well planned and organized crime plot, able to switch plans dramatic different weave the past with the present, nor simply to tell of love which, in their own way, it was not possible to live in full. All events evoked in the novel he is writing that Edwards, have upon himself the weight of a dark shadow of a tragedy that hangs over Argentina in the mid seventies. A year later than the events narrated in 1976, the military led by General Videla, implement it in a bloody coup, with tens of thousands of desaparecido , opening a veritable abyss of pain that is precipitated Argentine society as a whole. And this event is directly connected to the other major issue addressed by this intense film, Justice. That managed to sense of fairness, seen as an opportunity to right the wrongs suffered, but also one that, deeply upset, it becomes an instrument of power and oppression. Juan Jose Campanella constructs a film that is also a deeply political and that aspires to the complaint of the distortions that threaten to dismantle the whole system, and therefore should not be underestimated. The ethics, the sense of justice, the democratic system itself, which also contributes to the protagonist, are being swept away by the New Argentina, a Member nightmare imposed by force of arms.
