Rachael MurphyThe Secret in Their Eyes
January 24th 2012 22:11
I am not one to avoid a movie that has subtitles. Some of my favourite movies are foreign ones but when you get home from work and your tired the work involved in having to concentrate enough to read subtitles can be a little too much. As a result it took me some time to get around to watching The Secret in Their Eyes. I could say I regret leaving it so long but in fact I don't. This was not a movie to be watched when you are half asleep. It deserved my full attention. The full attention of a person willing to put in the effort with the subtitles.
The film is about a retired legal counsellor Benjamín Esposito(Ricardo Darín) who has begun to write a novel about an event in his career. He wishes to use it to find close in his mind the case of an murder he solved but could not let go and at the same time the love he has held for superior which he has dwelled upon also.
It is an intriguing premise and as the movie opens on a clearly frustrated man beginning and scrapping scenes in a notebook you are instantly interested in what he is trying to get out.
There are about five points in the movie when you think you have figured things out or that the cast have gotten it all wrong but it manages to surprise you at every turn. I watched the movie with someone who has spoiled many a plot for me by working out the ending but this movie was one step ahead even of him.
Not that, that is what the movie is trying to do. The mystery keeps you enthralled but you find yourself caring deeply about the characters and as much and you are trying to guess what will happen next you are wishing for something else.
Nothing is happens in a dramatic way or is forced at your under a heightened reality. It is more like a story told to you by a friend. It is told like a case file, a blow by blow of events all emotion is left to you to read in and it is hard not to emotionally react.
This is definitely a movie worth giving your time to.
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