Hey what's up guys. Today I'll show you a crime-drama film: "El Secreto De Sus Ojos"!
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care! The movie begins with the prosecutor Benjamin
remembering a memory. He and a woman were saying goodbye to each other at a train station. The
man boarded the train station with his luggage, and stole one last glance back at the woman. The
train started to move, and the woman couldn't help but run after it. Eventually, the train
gained speed, and the woman was left behind. The same man, but now older, is writing all this
down in a notebook. Frustrated, he tears off the page and starts over. He decides to begin with
the case in 19 74. Specifically, the morning of June 21st, when the victim of a rape and murder
case was still alive, and spending her last breakfast with her husband. They were happy
and laughing. Soon enough, pain and misery would follow. Benjamin sighs and tears the
page again. The right words just wouldn't come to him; and so he decides it would be
better to continue writing another day. Benjamin is a retired federal justice agent,
who is now hoping to put into words the experiences he's had. The next morning, he visits
his former workplace and his former boss, Irene. She is surprised that he is planning to write a
novel, and he explains that writing about the particular case that has haunted him for years,
is helping him make sense of it. She goes to her bookshelf, and unearths a vintage typewriter.
She gives it to Benjamin, and advises him to start at the beginning and stop dawdling.
For Benjamin, Irene was the real beginning. He remembers the day he first met her,
a beautiful woman dressed in red that is about to be his new boss. All he could do was stare at her,
as she warmly greeted him. Behind him was his partner, who she also greeted.
Shortly after they were introduced, a rape and murder case was assigned to
them. Benjamin initially tried to pass the case to another team, but it was his turn,
and there was nothing he could do. Resigned to his fate, Benjamin went to
the crime scene and met the inspector. What waited for him there, was a brutal sight that
rendered him speechless. He couldn't believe how young the dead victim was,
and the pain of her death gripped him. He and the inspector went to talk to the
victim's husband, Ricardo, who works as a bank clerk. He was understandably shocked by the news,
and gave short answers to their questions. Benjamin mentioned that their neighbors told
him he has an unusual habit of going home every lunchtime. Ricardo explained that he
and his wife liked a noontime show; he would go home every day, so they could watch it.
The next day at the office, Benjamin's team was informed that two construction
workers were arrested in connection to the rape and murder case.
He immediately went to the police station, so he could speak to the two workers.
The policemen told him that the two had already confessed; but when he looked at them closely, he
saw that they were tortured into confessing. Furious, Benjamin stormed back into his office,
and attacked his colleague, Romano, who ordered the arrest of the two workers. Romano reasoned
that they are just two lowlifes, and no one cares if they're tortured. Their
other coworkers tried to separate them, and Benjamin threatened that he would
file a complaint, and end Romano's career. Benjamin then saw his partner getting drunk in
a local bar. He was an alcoholic, and so Benjamin was disappointed that he was now off the wagon. He
paid for his friend's drink, and helped him get home from the bar. However, the partner's wife
wouldn't allow him inside in his condition, so he just took his partner to his own apartment.
While his partner dozed off on his couch, Benjamin flipped through the victim's past
photos and crime scene photos. That same night, he went to Ricardo,
and asked for more photos of his dead wife. He needed to get a feel of what she was like in
life. He told Benjamin that his wife grew up in the town of Chivilcoy, but left to work in
Buenos Aires as a teacher. While browsing through stacks of photo albums, Ricardo also shared that
he doesn't want the murderer to be executed. Instead, the murderer deserved to suffer in
jail for the rest of his life. Benjamin then noticed the same man in many of the pictures,
staring eerily at the victim. Ricardo identified the man in the photo as the suspect,
a friend of the victim's from Chivilcoy. Back in the present day, Benjamin explains to
Irene that there was something in the man's eyes that caught his attention. His looks were full
of longing and obsession. She asks him why he decided now to talk about this old case,
after all this time. He answers that for 20 years, he was busy with everything else. Now
that he is retired, he has nothing else to do, but confront the demons of his past.
After their discovery, Ricardo called the suspect's home at Chivilcoy; and his mother
answered. She told him that her son had moved to Buenos Aires more than a month ago. He asked her
if her son knew the victim, and the mother replied that they were childhood sweethearts, and he never
got over her when she left Chivilcoy. Benjamin chased this lead, but the suspect
had already disappeared from his job, and the hostel he was staying at. He also wasn't able
to obtain a search warrant for the house of the suspect's mother in Chivilcoy.
Benjamin and his partner decided to forego the proper procedures, and entered the premises to
get evidence against the suspect. He rifled through the magazines and cabinets, until he
finally saw a stack of letters sent by the suspect to his mother, hidden underneath a drawer full
of clothes. Some of the letters were recent; but there was no hint of his guilt in any of them.
He kept reading and rereading the letters, hoping to find a clue about the suspect's whereabouts;
but the letters were just filled with mundane names and topics.
Unfortunately, the Judge finds out from local police, that two of his justice agents have
been seen in Chivilcoy. In fact, the partner was even seen drinking alcohol straight out of
the bottle in the nearby store. Irene is both embarrassed and furious about their behavior;
and she reprimanded them for behaving so recklessly. Still, she defended her team members,
and asked the judge not to punish them. But the case would now have to be officially closed.
Back In the present day, Benjamin and Irene are looking at the photos of her engagement party,
and reminiscing about the good times. He remarks that it was only a few weeks after the case was
closed that she got engaged. She shows him a group photo with him looking all serious,
but she doesn't realize that he is actually longingly looking at her. She tells him that
she is glad that he is writing a novel looking back on the past; but she knows that she needs
to move forward. Irene stands up from the table, and gives him a kiss on the forehead goodbye.
Benjamin then remembers when he accidentally ran into Ricardo in a train station,
a year after the murder. He discovered that he had been diligently going from station to station,
waiting for the suspect to eventually pass through. He also tearfully confessed that he
is starting to forget his memories of the victim, no matter how hard he tried to remember the little
details of their last days together. Moved by Ricardo's devotion, Benjamin and
the partner pleaded with Irene to reopen the case. She reluctantly agreed.
Meanwhile, the partner finally figures out who the names mentioned in the letters are,
with the help of his friends at the bar. They are football players from a certain
team that the suspect is passionate about. In a bid to catch the suspect, Benjamin and his
partner attended one of the team's games. They see him in the crowd and try to chase
him. the suspect flees, but he is caught by some of the stadium security guards.
They arrested the suspect, and kept him detained for three days. On the day they were supposed to
interrogate him, the Judge and the partner hadn't arrived yet. Benjamin wanted to go ahead with the
interrogation without them, but Irene insisted that they had to do things by the book. Benjamin
didn't listen and went on with the interrogation. the suspect admitted that he knew the victim when
they were growing up together; but denies any involvement in the rape and murder.
Irene walked in, and caught the suspect staring at her chest. She suddenly decided to take control
of the interrogation, and began to insult the suspect's masculinity. She said that there is
no way he was the killer, because he isn't strong or virile enough to commit the crime. the suspect
got so enraged that he slapped Irene, and proudly boasted that he raped and killed the victim.
Benjamin attacked the suspect for slapping Irene, and threatened to kill him for hurting her.
Back in the present, Irene calls Benjamin, and tells him that she has changed her mind; and
she'd like to read his novel when he is done. But the case didn't have a satisfying ending.
Despite being convicted, the suspect was freed by Romano to get back at him. the suspect was
then given a position in the newly-elected President of Argentina's security team.
Benjamin and Irene confronted the colleague about this, but there was nothing they could do.
After their meeting, they got into an elevator, and the suspect walked in. He didn't say anything,
but just casually revealed a gun in a silent threat to Irene and Benjamin.
Benjamin regretfully informed Ricardo that his wife's murderer was now free. Ricardo is saddened,
and declared that he deserved to live a life in prison.
One night, the partner got drunk in a bar again, and was involved in a brawl. Benjamin rescued him,
and took him to his apartment. He then headed out to go get the partner's wife.
The wife was furious that the partner was drunk again, and told Benjamin that this
would be the last time she would ever go to his apartment to get her husband.
They arrived at his apartment, and discovered that the door had been
broken. He walked in and saw that all his pictures had been flipped over. He finally
saw his partner's dead body lying on his bed. Worried about Benjamin's safety, Irene hurriedly
made plans to get him to where her cousins had stayed. Benjamin didn't want to go and leave her
behind; but she insisted that he had to go. She went with him to the train station, as shown in
the memory earlier in the film; and the two almost shared a tongue massage. It took everything in him
to leave her; and he never stopped staring at her, as her figure receded in the distance.
In the present, Irene has just finished his novel. She is surprised by the depth of emotion in the
novel's last scene. With tears in her eyes, she asks Benjamin why he didn't take her with him. He
doesn't respond. To lighten the mood, she asks him how the next ten years were. He tells her
that he spent it counting llamas in a far-flung province; and that when he returned to Buenos
Aires a decade later, she was already married with two kids. Irene retorts that he himself was
married to a rich girl. Benjamin confesses that he had never loved anyone but her, which is why
his marriage didn't work out. He tells her that he doesn't want to live an empty life anymore.
This time, it is Irene who says nothing. The next day, the two track down the addresses
of the suspect and Ricardo. the suspect's address hasn't been known since 19 75, but they
did have some luck with Ricardo's address. Benjamin goes to his address in a remote mountain
area. It appears that Ricardo lives alone. The two are awkward, but they are glad to see each
other. Ricardo explains that he wanted a fresh start, and so he transferred to another branch
of the bank. He never got married again; and Benjamin sees that he still keeps his
wife's pictures on display on the mantel. Benjamin asks him how he'd been able to move
on from his wife's death, especially with the killer still free. Ricardo reasons that time has
healed his wounds, but Benjamin doesn't believe him. He tells him about the partner's death,
and how he believes he had been assassinated by goons sent by Romano as an act of retaliation.
When the goons had arrived at Benjamin's apartment and saw the partner there, he pretended to
be Benjamin to protect him. This is why all of Benjamin's pictures were flipped over. Finally,
Ricardo reveals that he waited for the suspect one night, kidnapped him, then shot him. Satisfied
with his confession, Benjamin leaves. But while he's driving away, he remembers
what Ricardo told him the night they met: the killer deserves to rot away in a cell for the
rest of his life. The more he thinks about it, the more he begins to believe that Ricardo didn't
kill the suspect. He stops the car, and walks back to Ricardo's house. Hidden in the trees,
he watches as Ricardo walks to an adjoining room. He follows and sees him feeding the suspect,
who he has kept in a cell for these past two decades. Benjamin's hunch was right:
Ricardo could never let go of his obsession; and he gave his own brand of justice to the suspect.
Without saying anything, Benjamin leaves. After returning to Buenos Aires, Benjamin visits
his partner's grave, and pays his respects. He then goes to Irene's office. He says that
there's something he needs to tell her. The movie ends with the two smiling at each other,
both understanding that they will finally have a chance at love.
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