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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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