A Great Movie

Rating: 8/10 (17 June 2010)

I must say that I felt bored at the beginning, partly because I didn't find a subtitle in Chinese, which made it difficult for me to catch the story. But I hanged on, and I'm glad I did so. This is truly a great movie. Every scene has its intention to express something, the typewriter with a broken key "A", Irene's door waiting to be closed, the photos been turned down in Benjamin's home. And love, Morale's love for his wife, making him waiting in the train station day after day only because the murderer MAY escape from there. The love lasts for more than 25 years and just this love encourages Benjamin to face his own feeling for Irene, for which she has been waiting for so many years.I knew little about that time in Argentina, the chaos of society, the judicial corruption, or some dark things like that, so I can't figure out what the director want to tell other than love. However, I'm still deeply touched only by the romance.