About “El Secreto de Sus Ojos”

It’s been a while since that movie’s been out in the theatres but I was just thinking today about how good it was so felt like writing this about it. I was just gonna make it like a status update but it wouldn’t fit.
Seriously, that movie is almost perfect. Or as good as you can hope to be… It’s like a complete storytelling experience. It’s quite dramatic, has a powerful theme expressed in masterful scenes, it also has romance and friendship, and it’s very funny, which makes it all extremely human and soon very familiar. I don’t think I’ll ever forget Sandoval picking up the phone, each time saying something different and telling the person on the other side that they got the wrong number (“Comando Tactico Revolucionario. Ordene, compañero.”). And the scene when Benjamin finds the dead girl in the beginning is something amazing, I can’t even describe it, don’t think anyone can.
So, yea, like I said, it’s an almost perfect storytelling experience, I could very well drop the “almost” from that, I just don’t, I guess, because it’s tabu or something. Perfection seems to have something to do with infinity, so I guess flawless would be a better word for it, cuz I honestly cannot see a flaw in it.
So yea, I can’t say it enough. This is like what you would aspire to write. If one day you write something that has these qualities that “El Secreto de sus Ojos” has, I think you can say confidently that you are at your peak. And if you follow it up with something as good as that, in my book you are automatically a legend.
In english, it is known as “The Secret in Your Eyes”.