It was an ordinary rape and murder, but the victim’s husband Morales mourned his deceased wife day by day for decades. He just sat in the waiting room every day because he knew that the murderer would probably show up at the train station and escape. For an hour, wait and find. What exactly does he want? Love that will eternally die?
Benjamin Espoo, the clerk of the Argentine Federal Court who handled this case, fled away from home and returned after retiring 25 years later. He still couldn't forget the confusing case. He had to write, ask, and he had to investigate the bottom line. What does Benjamin want? Is it the truth?
Twenty-five years ago, the beautiful federal prosecutor Irene Hastings once chased the departing train and couldn't help but put his hand out of the car window, connecting with the hand of the man in the car who was going away. Twenty-five years later, those turbulent emotions were still nowhere to rest, but she could only ask: If all that was true, why didn't you take me away back then?
Yes, this story is composed of two broken loves, which are connected in a dark and turbulent era in Argentina. The murder of rape occurred on June 21, 1974, which was the final period of Peron's re-rule. Ten days later, President Peron passed away. Mrs. Peron continued to pursue her husband’s “third way”, but the country’s political and economic situation has deteriorated. Various forces have come on stage. In 1976, the right-wing military coup succeeded, and the Videira military government came to power and wrote the cruelest page in modern Argentine history-white terror engulfed everything, the military and police were rampant in secret, and there were as many as 200,000 missing persons! After the fall of the Videira military government in 1983, Argentina returned to democracy. However, the neoliberal economic policy implemented by the Menem government from 1989 to 1999 proved to be a failure. In 2001, Argentina broke out a serious financial crisis and a socio-political crisis. Its shadow has spread to this day.
I think it’s no accident that Eduardo Sacheri, the author of the original novel La pregunta de sus ojos (La pregunta de sus ojos), set the time span of this suspenseful story between 1974 and 1999: assassination. , Kidnapping, corruption, terror, this is the darkest period in modern Argentine history, which is why Benjamin’s words to capture inspiration in his half-dreaming half-awake would be "I am afraid" (Temo). Benjamin goes back to the depths of memory to explore the process of murder, and it also represents the process of this generation of people looking back to history to find the truth. He ignores Morales's cry of "forget everything" twenty-five years later, like a ghost. Similarly, sneaked back to the farm, and finally found the answer in the dark night—a surprising and shocking answer. This answer illuminates his long bleak life, allowing him to finally move from fear to love, to a fearless tomorrow.
So, is the answer that finally illuminates history and life the power of love? I think it is not. Love is beautiful, it can make people go through waters and fires, but it ends up in private, and ends in private; and what supported Morales waiting at the train station every minute and every second made Benjamin and Irene unable to let go of it for twenty-five years. Yes, it has made a lonely ordinary person stronger, and has lived and died for more than 20 years, but it is a longer-term tenacity and a belief that exceeds personal gains and losses. . This belief is justice.
This kind of justice is not just the judicial justice on the surface of the story. No, it also means morality, conscience, and struggle. It also means restoring the truth to history. It means facing the tragedy of "nothing can be done". , Individuals can always see a little bit of starlight from the darkness that swallows everything, never extinguish the loyalty to the light and ideals, always stick to the heart of a child, even if alone, always move forward, move forward, always love.
It is from this perspective that justice can enable a weak person to gain dignity and strength in the face of a powerful system. After twenty-five years, Benjamin finally understands what he has been looking for and allows him to face his enthusiasm and enthusiasm. Faith, let him finally open up to Irene, let him run to love without hesitation.
So in terms of Argentine history, is the intention of author Eduardo Sacelli and director Juan José Campanella (Juan José Campanella) a shelter for "political independence, economic freedom, and social justice"? What about the return of Loonism? I don't think so. "Social justice" is only one aspect of Peronism, and it is only one aspect of "justice". I have always felt that the "question in their eyes", the core of the mystery, which makes a society move from fear to love and light, is a higher level of justice and dignity. It is not a special case of Argentina. It applies to any country and any period of history. Only when the status of justice is maintained and the fairness of the law is upheld, can the people of a country gain dignity, and there is no need to embark on the humiliating SF road, and not to despair on the balcony of one's own house, can they eat with peace of mind. Rice, drink safe milk for your children, so that you can speak the truth freely and boldly, without squeezing your scalp to a foreign country to raise your next generation, so that you can live like a man with his head upright.
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