The Secret in Their Eyes
The Secret in Their Eyes The Secret In Their Eyes is a haunting Argentine drama/thriller which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film of 2009. The protagonist, Benjamin Esposito, is an investigator for one of the regions of the District Attorney’s office in Buenos Aires. His closest friend is a coworker named Sandoval who is a drunk who cannot get his life together, but also provides some of the funniest moments in the film. Into their lives comes Irene, their new supervisor who Benjamin falls in love with. The film cleverly takes place in two time periods. It opens and closes around the year 2000 but probably 70% of the action takes place between 1974 and 1976 when a rape and murder of an innocent woman ends up changing the lives of all the main characters. Unlike most films that rely on a flashback structure, The Secret in Their Eyes cuts between the two time frames throughout to show how certain scenes that occurred in the past affect the present, pr