Eric's Secrets

http://www.4docs.org.uk/films/show/4/Erics+Secrets 


This is a short review of the Documentary Eric's Secrets.


This really is a nice and simple but touching, heartwarming and brilliant doc about 91 year old Eric. He briefly recounts his life and his happiness along the years to a tunefull guitar piece with birds singing in the background and tea in shot. The use of graphics works really well as photographs are used throughout to illustrate Eric's life in an authentic way, giving truth to his words. Eric makes a wonderfully wise statement when talking about his later years with his wife saying "If you accept it as a norm that you will live happily ever after you wont, you have to work at it". He then goes onto another heartwarming memory of his wifes crossword skills as the music cuts to leave Eric's voice and the sound of a ticking clock. "She died 8th of july 2001" is the first line of Eric's short recount of his wife's death which he does not dwell on depressingly or begin to cry but somewhat upliftingly states "she died upstars, she died in my arms" somehow from gently spoken Eric those words seem to mean that he loved her to the end and still does and that personally instills hope rather than depression and I think instilling that in a viewer is one of the highest aims for any film maker. 
4/5