¡Bemsha SWING!: El secreto de sus ojos

3 ago 2011

El secreto de sus ojos

This 2009 Argentine film by Juan José Campanella, which one an Academy Award, features a police detective, Espósito, around the time of the Argentine dirty war. He arrests a rapist and killer, but this man gets released early from prison because he is also an informer useful in the rightwing repression of subversives. Espósito is in love with his boss, Irene, a Cornell-educated judge from a higher social rank, who marries an engineer while half in love with Espósito himself. The movie goes back and forth between the present, when the retired Espósito is writing a novel about his case, and the past, when the events were going on.

It is an excellent movie with maybe one or two extra plot twists too many at the end.

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Spanish prof dijo...: I think the technical aspects of the movie are excellent, but as an Argentinean, I found the ending disgusting (from a moral and political point of view). But I won't go further into details here, because readers may want to see the movie.; 11:40 a. m.
Jonathan dijo...: I, not from Argentina, was disgusted by the ending too, but like you didn't want to give it away as a "spoiler."; 11:43 a. m.
Spanish prof dijo...: I think we are on the same page. But I've had to explain why I thought so to a lot of people.; 11:47 a. m.
Thomas dijo...: Isn't the film old enough not to worry about spoiling it? Can't we just announce a SPOILER ALLERT now, and get on with it? I remember liking the whole thing except that there was something oddly television-like about the scenes out in the shed.

I'd love to hear why an Argentinean would find the ending "disgusting". I don't dispute anyone's right to feel that way, of course, I just know that I didn't feel any disgust at any point. I'm not Argentinean and don't know very much about the political situation of that period.; 2:59 p. m.
Clarissa dijo...: OK, now I really want to see the movie.; 9:45 p. m.
Jonathan dijo...: You should see it to make up your own mind about it.; 9:46 p. m.
Spanish prof dijo...: @Thomas: Is there any address where I can email you with my reasons? I would hate to spoil it for the rest, but I'd love to explain you why I hated the ending so much.; 10:41 a. m.
Thomas dijo...: tb dot lpf
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cbs dot dk; 2:06 a. m.
Spanish prof dijo...: I just published a post in my blog about it.; 1:51 p. m.

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"Enhanced by copious notes and an excellent bibliography, this book offers a perceptive, intriguing assessment of the Garcia Lorca created by the postwar generation of American poets." (Choice )

"Mayhew is a critic who is at the top of his game; he combines a breadth of knowlege of the field with acute analysis."

--John C. Wilcox, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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"Se trata de Jonathan Mayhew y su extraordinario estudio Apocryphal Lorca. Translation, Parody, Kitsch. Esta obra se ocupa no de García Lorca sino de cómo los escritores estadounidenses han reinventado a Lorca, desde Spicer y Rothenberg hasta O’Hara y Koch. Asimismo, es una discusión de la Deep Image —¡cuánto hay que desmenuzar de ese capítulo!— y la manera en que la poética norteamericana se ha apropiado de lo lorqueano (o lorcaesco) y del concepto de lo 'otro' que éste representa. Éste es un libro repleto de sutilezas, de tesis, apuntes, datos."

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"Apocryphal Lorca, sin embargo, es mucho más que un estudio de las vidas posteriores de Lorca en la poesía americana entre principios de los años 50 y 70. También ofrece un acercamiento histórico a la traducción de su obra, descubriendo reseñas de prensa significativas y discurriendo acerca de reconocimientos críticos. El texto es elegante y fresco; el análisis amplio e históricamente específico."

--María Delgado, Revista de Literatura

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