Most powerful scenes

Watched it last night on BBC4 for the first time and I thought it was fabulous.

For me the scenes where Benjamin and Irene meet the government official who sanctioned the release of Gomez and are left seething in frustration, plus the terrfic goodbye scene between them at the railway station, the amazing soccer match episode, the discovery of Gomez in the cage after many years ... oh, and any scene whatsoever with Pablo Sandoval (Guillermo Francella) in are just some of my favourites.

This was a remarkable film: not faultless (what is?) but right up there with the very best of them.

I felt just one thing during the whole movie: bored.

This is one of those "perfect" films; where there isn't a single skippable scene. All are engaging in some way.

I'll go with the train station scene between Benjamin and Morales. Benjamin's realisation that Morales has dedicated his life to a doomed search for the perpetrator and Morales' speech about time passing and memories becoming memories of memories, good stuff.

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"I guess I can see how it would be powerful back in 99, but not in 2013..sorry."

it's a while since i saw it but my three are

the elevator scene

the photo reveal when you see Benjamin looking at Irene

the train station "goodbye"

The "How do you live a life... full of nothing" scene...

SPOILER!!!

Irene, Benjamin and Gomez on the elevator, when Gomez takes the gun in his hands.

When the thugs go to Benjamins house and you realize that Pablo is going to die soon.

good scene also as said before when we see benjamin looking at Irene in the photographs

So, so many amazing scenes, but the one that grips is the one at the end. For me, in particular when Morales says "You said life in prison", his eyes were pleading, but at the same time defiant, because he felt in his heart that what he did was right.

The scene when Sandoval puts the picture of Esposito down, so, they won't know they killed the wrong person, that is just beyond grasp, imagine that you care about someone so much that in your last moments, all you want to do it protect them, and not to mention you are sacrificing yourself in place of them.

I felt the rape scenes were so strong, I felt so drawn to it, but at the same time revolted that someone would do that. And to know, as a human being that, some women go through worse than that, it is just perplexing.

This movie is so amazing, I have no words to describe, but I believe those of us who have had the privilege of witnessing such a masterpiece should always pass it on. Some people don't understand how powerful this is, and I believe that is because they don't have that thing the movie talks about, PASSION. No real passion for CERTAIN THINGS that would draw you into this type of movie, and no understanding of what it really feels to spend your life longing for something like Morales and Esposito did. And Gomez, in his so deserved cell, has his whole life to long for forgiveness.

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