Argentina has a film that ranks 91st in the "TOP100 Greatest Movies of the 21st Century" published by the BBC.
It was the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, which was a record Argentine moviegoer when it was released, seen by one in every 14 Argentines, and it also won nine nominations at the Goya Awards, known as the "Spanish Oscars".
The movie is "Enigmatic Eyes."
Just like the name of the movie, the literary style runs through the whole movie, but this is a suspenseful and high-scoring masterpiece.
After the film's great success, paul Greengrass, the director of "Inside Out," had the idea of a remake and brought in two goddesses, Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts.
Even Julia Roberts, in order to conform to the positioning of the role, did not hesitate to self-destruct the image, playing an old FBI agent in the film.
However, this movie of the same name, "Enigmatic Eyes", only learned the skin of the original work, and the essence was not touched at all, so the result can be imagined.
As netizens said, the remake lacks that sense of literature and art, and does not have the hazy feeling of the original.
The original began to use flashbacks.
Benjamin is a retired prosecutor and an honorary doctor of the Royal Family.
Retirement was boring, and his mind was full of his decades of case information, so he had an idea to write these cases into a novel.
Among them, he decided to write about the burglary and murder that impressed him the most in 25 years.
However, the writing process was so difficult that he couldn't even write the beginning, and every time he finished the first page, he felt dissatisfied.
Finally, he wrote the word "fear" in his half-sleep, half-awake state, a case that left him with no way to write.
So he approached his 25-year-old colleague, Linda, hoping she would help him sort his mind.
The camera goes back to the 25 years, when Benjamin was still an unknown pawn in the prosecutor's office.
One day, a colleague pushed a case to him like a leather ball, and the deceased was a girl named Liliana, who was covered in scars and apparently had been inhumanly abused before she died.
The tragedy of the crime scene brought Great shock to Benjamin, but just as he was preparing to start the investigation, Benjamin's superiors arrested two immigrants who were working next to the house to face the crime in order to close the case as soon as possible.
Although Benjamin was furious, he could do nothing about his boss's actions.
Privately, Benjamin finds Liliana's fiancé, Morales, hoping to find a breakthrough in the case.
While flipping through Liliana's photographs, Benjamin noticed that there was a man who was not very natural in the photographs.
The man's name was Gormoz, and in several of the photographs, Gormoz's eyes were always on Liliana, and his eyes were full of lewd feelings.
The prosecutor's intuition told him that this Gomoz must be related to Liliana's murder.
Sure enough, while investigating Gormoz, he had already received the news that he had moved out of the house where he lived and disappeared without a trace.
Benjamin had no choice but to apply to his superiors for a search warrant, hoping to find clues at Gormoz's mother's house.
However, the boss believed that the case was over, and Benjamin had eaten enough to support himself and refused to issue a search warrant.
In desperation, Benjamin and his assistant sneak into Gormoz's mother's house, and after a careful search, there are no useful clues except for many letters.
While Benjamin investigates Gomoz, Liliana's fiancé Morales is also so angry with the killer that he waits at a different station every day, hoping to catch Gormoz.
Without a clue, a depressed Benjamin and his assistant are drunk in the bar, and they are thinking about the contents of Gomoz's letters, when Suddenly Benjamin notices something strange.
Gormoz will always associate his mood with some names, and those names are football stars, a person has something to change, but some things will not change, that is, the passion for what he loves.
Gormoz's hobby is football, so he associates his joys and sorrows with football stars.
So Benjamin speculated that if there was a ball game, Gormoz would definitely be in the audience.
The camera then shifts to a soccer field with 10,000 people, a long, six-minute-long, history-famous scene.
From the overhead shooting from a distance, to the slow turn to the audience, to the passionate audience, and then to the intense scene of Benjamin's arrest process, for these 6 minutes, the crew used more than 200 group performances, spent 2 years preparing, and edited for 9 months before and after, and finally achieved amazing results.
Gormoz was eventually caught, and during the interrogation, he repeatedly denied Benjamin's allegations against him, even claiming an alibi, and his disguise almost convinced Benjamin until a small gesture in his eyes.
When Linda accidentally walks away, she notices that Gomoz's eyes are peeking at his chest, as obscene as peeking at Liliana in the photo.
So Linda had a plan, and tried to mock Gomoz for not being manly, mocking him for not having the courage to commit such a serious case.
Sure enough, the radical method worked, and Gormoz became angry and jumped up to admit that he was Liliana's killer.
The murderer was arrested, and he thought that the case could be closed smoothly, but soon after, Benjamin found that Gormoz actually appeared on the TV screen, and even received praise from the president.
It turned out that after Gormoz was arrested and imprisoned, he was recruited by the military as a special thug and fished him out of prison through the law, and Gormoz turned into a government man and continued to go unpunished.
In the prosecutor's office, Gormoz sat in the same elevator with Linda and Benjamin, and took out their pistols to show off.
Sure enough, Gormoz retaliated late one night by infiltrating Benjamin's house, but shooting Benjamin's assistant Salva.
Although Benjamin escaped, Linda knew that as long as he stayed in the area, he would be retaliated against, so she insisted that Benjamin take refuge in a safe place.
Who knows this difference, that is 25 years.
Twenty-five years later, Benjamin finds Liliana's fiancé, Morales, and the moment he enters the door, he finds that Morales' home is still full of pictures of Liliana, apparently not out of the shadows of 25 years ago.
What Benjamin did not expect was that Morales actually told him that he had killed Gomoz 25 years ago.
Benjamin didn't say much about it, because he also felt that Gormoz deserved to die, so he was reluctant to pursue the matter any further.
However, out of the prosecutor's intuition, when recalling the past, he remembered that although Morales had gritted his teeth in hatred for the murderer, he had said that he would not let the murderer simply die.
So he sneaked back to Morales's house at night to observe, and in the house he found Gormoz imprisoned in prison, without contact with the outside world for 25 years, and his spirit had been broken.
This is Morales' punishment of Gormoz, which is really more cruel than the death penalty.
In the end, he changed the word "fear" at the beginning of the novel to "I love you", and then found Linda, and the two regained the love they had 25 years ago.
"Enigmatic Eyes" is not so much a suspense film as a film that interprets love.
Because of love, Benjamin will leave for 25 years to be with his lover; because of love, Morales will imprison Gomoz, who killed his lover, for 25 years.
Throughout this movie is a pair of eyes.
The film has a lot of depictions of the eyes:
Benjamin always had Linda in his eyes; Benjamin's sharp eyes were solved; Morales' doting eyes when he looked at Liliana's picture; and Gormoz's extremely lewd eyes.
The whole movie is flat and straight, not as thrilling as other suspense films, but it broke out in the last 10 minutes, allowing the audience to "stuffy" for a whole time, and finally enjoy the emotional explosion.