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The Big Daddy and I approached the end of the movie-going month with some trepidation. The lineup at the theater we usually attend was rather bleak. The choices ranged anywhere from a dreary looking Robin Hood retread to an unnecessary extension of the Shrek franchise. Other options included MacGruber, Prince of Persia and Sex and the City 2. Since we could not agree on seeing any of those films together and the mere idea of seeing some of them would cause either or both of us to break out into an unattractive flop sweat - the Big Daddy made an executive decision following a mini-epiphany/fit. I like it when he does this. The following is the conversation that took place that day. And please note – I paraphrase liberally:

“I can’t and I won’t go see another bad movie. I’m just not doing it. I can’t! Nothing’s been awesome since Crazy Heart!”

“What about Iron Man 2? Didn’t you enjoy that?”

“Yeah, but you know what I mean. I want to see…something…with more substance, something not so fluffy.”

“RDJ dancing around drunkenly in his armor didn’t do it for you? I thought that was hot.”

“Grrrr…”

“Okay, then what movie do you want to write about?”

“Hmm…what’s playing at the arthouse?”

“Human Centipede. And the answer is no.”

“Well what else is out there?”

We took a moment to scan the interwebs and I saw that The Secret in Their Eyes was playing in Brookline. I told the BD that I’d heard some really good things about this one and mentioned that not only had it won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, but the feeling among the cinematic cognoscenti was that it may have actually even deserved it. No small feat, that. And no, I didn’t use those words exactly, but I was still pretty jazzed about going to see it. I was also jazzed about the possibility of hitting that cute Japanese restaurant around the corner from the theater afterwards, but I hungrily digress…

The film’s screenplay is adapted from the novel La Pregunta de Sus Ojos (The Question in Their Eyes) by Eduardo Sacheri. A co-production between Argentina and Spain and set in Argentina, Juan Jose Campanella returned from the US to make this film with his muse/actor-friend Ricardo Darin. Their fourth collaboration, Campanella previously directed multiple episodes of “House” and “Law and Order”.

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