The story of "Mysterious Eyes" is not complicated: Benjamin, the retired prosecutor, hopes to write a rape and murder that he handled 25 years ago and almost changed his life into a novel for publication, and return to Buenos Aires to find the year. The affectionate female colleague Irene goes back to the past together. The whole film uses their tracing as clues to parallelly explain the investigation of the case 25 years ago and the trial of Benjamin and Irene 25 years later. In the end, don’t Benjamin’s visit to the husband of Liliana, the victim of that year. Larys accidentally discovered the final fate of the suspect who was arrested and illegally released by the court.
The title of the film "Mysterious Eyes" naturally contains an extremely important clue in the film-the man who appeared in the old photos of the victim many times and stared at the victim is also a pair of blurred, admired and longing for the suspect Gomez. The eyes of the past tense are used to determine the identity of the suspect and unfold it. Nearly three-quarters of the two-hour film is about the fact that the case was received, investigated and closed, but was eventually destroyed by the senior management. The whole process, and in this one and a half hours, basically followed the most conventional starting, inheriting and turning of a most conventional type of film, except for a few parallel narrative present tense plots, almost independent of the film. The protagonist’s first acquaintance, the acceptance of the case and the discovery of the suspect’s clues occupy the first half an hour of the film. This highlights the compassionate expression of Benjamin when he first came to the scene to witness the tragic situation of the deceased and Morales learned of his beloved wife. The various performances of patience and collapse after the bad news (the scene of making a phone call to the suspect's home is extreme), for the latter two people to persevere in seeking to capture the murderer (note, not "bring to justice"). The foreshadowing.
Benjamin and his partner Sandoval went into the suspect's home to search for evidence. They were accused by their superiors of being illegal and the investigation was facing difficulties. This included the differences between Benjamin and Irene on the issue of the case itself, and the feelings between the two of them taking care of each other. And by the 58th minute of the film, Sandoval found the stepping stone to the trace of the suspect-the nature of the fans revealed in the letter, a small climax occurred in the long shot of the stadium hunt in the next five minutes, although it was later confirmed that this shot was The "montage"-style internal scheduling that combines CG special effects and empty shots cuts points, but achieves a kind of viewing continuity in performance, which inspires dramatic conflicts here. This was followed by a series of good scenes with a sense of confrontation and a strong machine front, including Irene seeing through Gomez’s weakness and "sexual impotence" to make Gomez confess the crime on the spot. After being released, Gomez was in the elevator. In the presence of Irene and Benjamin taking out their pistols, silently loading them without saying a word, they all present the investigation process 25 years ago as thrilling and regrettable. In a series of twists and turns, the play fully shows Benjamin, Irene and Ge The different personalities and performances of Max, Morales and others, and the different personalities of these people have a profound impact on the plot. Benjamin’s dedication to fair law enforcement and his love for Irene made him beat Irene in Gomez. After the punch, he became furious and tried his best to protect her, and also bought the bane for the murder he accidentally avoided later-it is precisely because of this persistence that the high-levels decided to send someone to kill him. Irene, who was already engaged, exposed the true face of the suspect with her composure and calmness. She also escorted Benjamin out of the capital at a critical juncture, and acted as Benjamin’s writing staff 25 years later, helping to find out the long-lost truth. In the linear development of the plot, the distinctiveness of the characters is the biggest feature of the play.
The climax of the film is Benjamin’s revisiting Morales 25 years later, the fierce debate surrounding the whereabouts of Gomez, who has been missing for 25 years, and the unveiling of the final truth. In the film, the first one and a half hours of the film centered on "investigation." At the same time, it can also be regarded as the "investigation" process in Benjamin's writings. In the second half an hour, it is completely based on the footprint of reality, giving the previous article an explanation based on the objective reality. The main scene is Morales's home, and Benjamin is indifferent to the past. Efforts were made to find out the whereabouts of the suspects he had captured. Morales was even more dissatisfied with Benjamin's arrival and the underlying questioning, claiming that he had killed Gomez privately that year. Various doubts prompted Benjamin to return to the hut at night, and finally found Gomez, who was imprisoned by Morales. So far, Morales’ desolation of "this hatred" has been concentrated: he wants this person who caused his loneliness for the rest of his life to be with him. Same as loneliness. In the climax of the plot, it is actually affirmation of the situational details in Benjamin’s novel, that is, all the relationship and development of the characters are the basis for this ending, and it is also the subversion of reality: Benjamin understands love and hate. Indefinitely, he also decided to change the word "fear" that the representative could not get rid of in the past, and changed it to "love". Only then did he and Irene finally "speak behind closed doors".
It can be said that "Mysterious Eyes" has always been narrated in the narrative form of a pure feature film, and there is no long-term formation. The beginnings and turns of the story are in line with conventional standards. There are suspenseful situations and no lack of sensational passages. (Farewell at the train station) Therefore, there is nothing to say in terms of visibility, and the portrayal of the characters hidden in the narrative structure is undoubtedly quite hidden but successful. This, in addition to relying on the stability of the plot structure, is largely due to the film The details part of the composition. At 56 minutes Sandoval talked to Benjamin about the key to solving the case. Its calmness is very different from the previous promise and incompetence. It is a positive interpretation of the friendship between the two. Sandoval’s character also has a more comprehensive display, which is directly related to the future. He was drunk at Benjamin's home, and when he was mistaken for Benjamin by the killer, he directly admitted and (according to Benjamin's guessing as a possibility) he flipped the photo frame that proved Benjamin's identity and was shot to death, relying on his deep friendship and great wisdom and courage. When the present Benjamin is staying at the table where the picture frame is located, a close-up of Benjamin’s face, the voice-over is "Are you Benjamin?", then the camera cuts to the front and middle shot of the killer, while the foreground character is blurred, and Benjamin wearing a black sweater can be seen At this moment, Sandoval, who was blurred into a white shirt, fell drunk at his house and was killed by mistake 25 years ago, and then the camera cuts back to reality. This is Benjamin, who is still in a black sweater. The event, like it, is an extremely exciting foreshadowing. The same function is that when Benjamin visited Morales's house, Morales came out with a plate at the end of the afternoon. The plate was leftover food. It was echoed by the details that Benjamin thought about when he left, which eventually caused him to return and Uncover the truth.
Another more intuitive detail presentation comes from the creation of the atmosphere in the scene, such as the 83-minute elevator in which Gomez loaded the pistol, shooting the three middle shots from the back, Gomez facing the elevator door in front, Irene Benjamin and Benjamin were on the elevator wall. There was no dialogue in the whole process, only the sound of friction when the elevator descended. However, Gomez's indifferent expression and the appearance of the two about to collapse together created a nervous and strange atmosphere: if Gomez turned his head back at this time If you shoot one person, one shot.... In the last 20 minutes of the film, the dialogue and roundabout temptations between the two at Morales’s house have brought into full play the sense of confrontation between the dialogue and the narrow space of the play itself. Benjamin tried to let Morales know that, for this case, After paying the heavy price of betrayal and separation, Morales had to try his best to conceal the fact that Gomez was under house arrest and to justify himself with lies. On the one hand, he acknowledged the loss of emotion, on the other hand, he concealed the continuous malice in his heart. The interior tone rendering caused by the red curtains has a faint "mountain rain coming" effect.
In short, "Mysterious Eyes" adopts the plot design method of a pure feature film (sometimes even a genre film), supplemented by a properly inserted two-line narrative, which is an attempt to show the details of the relationship between the characters and the plot. It is full of the seemingly plain and stable plot structure, and the well-designed audio-visual language plays a very good auxiliary role in this. The depiction of details is the biggest artistic feature of "Mystery". There are no big action scenes and no hysterics. All the love, hate, and enmity that I want to express are best interpreted in every move. Accumulation and accumulation, "Mysterious Eyes" is undoubtedly worthy of the name.
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