FILM 8: Secret in their Eyes, dir. Billy Ray, 2015 (Tubitv)

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Secret in their Eyes (2015)

Dir. Billy Ray

Written by Billy Ray, based on screenplay by Juan José Campanella, based on the novel by Eduaro Sacheri

Universal City: Universal Studios Home Entertainment, 2016, 112 min.

Cast:

Chiwetel Ejiofor                      Ray Kasten

Nicole Kidman                        Claire Sloane

Julia Roberts                           Jessica Cobb

Dean Norris                            Bumpy Willis

Alfred Molina                         Martín Morales

Joe Cole                                  Marzin / Beckwith

Michael Kelly                         Reg Siefert

Synopsis:

“A tight-knit team of rising investigators, along with their supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.” Imdb.com

Questions:

  1. What clues do the filmmakers use to distinguish between the two different times of social crisis in which the story is set?
  2. What are the reasons that Ray and Claire don’t get together in this version of the film? Compare it to the first version.
  3. In what ways do Ray, Claire and Jessica change between 2002 and 2015? Do these changes seem credible?
  4. How does the change in the murder victim’s relative, from being the husband to the mother of the victim, affect the story? How does her being a police officer affect it?
  5. How has Ray adapted the situation of political crisis from Argentina in the 1970s to the U.S. in 2002 and after? To what extent does the crisis warrant extreme measures by the police, in each case?
  6. Compare the critique of political ambition in both versions of the film.
  7. Compare the use of humor in the two versions.
  8. Compare the role of sports and of the stadium in the two versions.
  9. Compare the use of gender and sexuality in eliciting a confession in each version.
  10. Compare the motivations for taking extrajudicial revenge in each version of the film. Is it justified, in either case?
  11. To what extent is Ray complicit in acting outside of the law? Compare this to Benjamín in the earlier version.
  12. Are there any aspects of the cinematography that seem distinctive?
  13. Do you find both versions of the film equally effective? Explain.
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