Today, I would like to recommend an Argentine film with a unique temperament to you.
"Enigmatic Eyes"
The secret of his eyes
The film was the winner of the 2010 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and swept the Spanish Goya Awards for multiple nominations that year, and after its release, word of mouth exploded at the box office.
Based on Argentine novelist Eduardo Saceri's first novel, The Question in Their Eyes, the film expresses a critique of the political darkness of the 1970s through an unresolved murder.
The film version takes a different path, stripping away the main line of "love" from the thrilling political events and suspenseful cases, telling a love story spanning 25 years.
The film begins with flashbacks.
Benjamin, a retired prosecutor whose 25 years of work experience filled his mind with material, decided to write a novel about a rape and murder he had handled 25 years earlier and nearly changed his life.
Originally just a small hobby, but stuck at the beginning, every time I lift the pen, after writing the first page of memories, I will feel unsatisfied, occasionally get up in the morning, and I will see myself writing the two words "fear" in the middle of sleep and half awake.
Most disturbingly, there is a special image, always interspersed with memories: the desperate eyes of a forced girl, the words of constant prayer and the gesture of powerless resistance.
The plot begins to move towards the memories.
25 years ago, a young man and woman met and fell in love, but when the two were talking about marriage, their fiancée Liliana was raped and killed in the apartment.
At the scene of the crime, Benjamin saw the deceased's blinding eyes, desperate struggle, with a few hopeless prayers, her enigmatic eyes, looking directly at the happy moments of intimacy with her new husband hanging on the wall, but everything stopped at that moment.
The case fell into Benjamin's hands. But in the course of the investigation, Benjamin's boss caught the mud workers who were working near the house at the time, ignoring the alibi of the two immigrants in order to close the case as soon as possible, even though they were more likely to be suspects.
During an investigation, Benjamin flipped through the girl's and her husband's photo album and found that inside the album, there was a boy who always stared at the girl with adoration in his eyes.
Could the murderer be him? The prosecutor's sixth sense told Benjamin that this man was extremely problematic, but in the great judiciary, no one could help him.
Benjamin was angry and went directly to the judge to report the illegal actions of his superiors, but at that time, the judicial corruption and collusion inside were complicated, and the case was shelved and became an "unsolved case", and the suspect also caught the opportunity and escaped like this, not knowing where to go.
Benjamin wasn't going to give up because the girl's death scene was so brutal that Benjamin couldn't forget that scene. There is also the husband of the deceased, Duka, who was stimulated and insane from the moment his wife died, and he sat alone by the subway station every day, waiting for the murderer to appear.
Liliana used to like to carefully put lemon and half a sugar cube in a water cup for her husband, but this taste was gradually forgotten as the case fell into confusion.
His helpless and determined eyes filled with infinite love touched Benjamin, for he was also infatuated with his young boss, Irene, and he understood the pain of losing his beloved.
He asked Benjamin many times what would happen if the prisoner was caught.
But a year later, the criminals still have not been caught.
It wasn't until Benjamin's assistant spied a secret from the letters left by the suspect Gomez.
Gomez often combines his mood with certain personal names. On the day of the girl's accident, Gomez's letters contained several names unfamiliar to Gomez: "That night, I looked worse than Elennik." "We were great partners, and when Adony was alone, it was different from when he was with messiah."
These people's names are all football celebrities, and coincidentally, among the suspects who raped and killed girls, there happened to be people who were particularly obsessed with football, so Benjamin guessed that the murderer was Gomez.
So Benjamin and his assistants finally blocked him after crouching on the court for many days.
After a panicked run, Benjamin and his assistants finally caught the suspect.
I thought that he was the real murderer, as long as he let him leak the flaws in the interrogation process, and then confessed the truth, the case could be solved, but I did not expect that the interrogation was deadlocked.
Is the suspect, who looks wooden and timid, really the murderer? If not, why would he run? If it is really his words, how can those coincidences be explained?
In the face of all kinds of evidence, Benjamin is still firm in his own speculation, in his opinion, woody, timid is just a disguise for Gomez, he will always remember the look he saw in Liliana's old photo, greedily squinting with evil and admiration, appearing inferior, excited, jealous, and unwilling.
This enigmatic look, which Camez seemed to reveal when he mentioned Liliana, made Benjamin firmly believe that he was the real murderer.
So Benjamin, in front of Gomez, sang a harmony with Irene, angered Gormoz, and completely excavated the darkest side of his human nature without reservation, until he automatically confessed.
The whole film is in the retrospective of Benjamin and Irene, opening a two-line narrative, on the one hand, the beginning and end of the pursuit of the murder 25 years ago, and the repetition of the old case 25 years later;
On the one hand, the love and life that have been broken up by turbulent times; on the other hand, there is a dark revenge on the murderer who is at large...
The case itself did not have many twists and turns, when the corruption of the Argentine judiciary and the political turmoil and chaos aggravated the enigmatic emotions and doubts that emanated from people's view of justice, emotion, and country.
The film itself is just a gradually closed exit, we follow this structured and charming plot, in the two-hour wandering, we see the helpless and hopeless next individual firm belief, and even use life to practice a kind of suffering that cannot touch dreams.
After 25 years, the mystery has not been revealed. After receiving the government amnesty, Gormoz became a pawn of politicians to secretly eliminate dissidents, and even drew a gun in the elevator in front of Benjamin and Irene to "threaten" them.
Sandwa was then killed by Jamming's accomplices, and Benjamin took refuge and traveled away. In the scene between him and Irene at the train station, the irrepressible "passion" is rationally occupied, but the repression of nature is so that people can't stop looking physically and mentally uncomfortable.
The film is very powerful in deconstructing human nature, in which the interrogation of Gomez deliberately provokes and insults him, makes him enraged and pulls out.... The play can be said to have a very impact on the audience.
In addition to politics and human nature, the film is also interspersed with the 25-year love of the protagonist Benjamin and Irene, accompanied by the restoration of the truth of the case in 25 years, the advent of a novel, and the consummation of a love that has been adhered to for 25 years.
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