Message 715

Yesterday I went to dinner and a movie with the Morrills and the Ariagnos. The movie was titled (in English translation) The Secret in Their Eyes. It is the first movie I ever saw that was made in Argentina. It is a complex film with a lot of flashbacks and alternative versions of the same scenes. It is a thriller, comedy, love story, political allegory, and psychological mish-mash that deals with fantasy and reality and the line between them. It is a worthy try, but for me it was more trouble than it was worth to try to read the subtitles and follow the story at the same time. It is well made and the actors were good although completely unknown to me. I am surprised that it won this the Academy Award this year as the best foreign film. I would give it three stars.