The Secrets We Keep: Good Movie, But Keep the Cyanide Handy! (Amazon Prime, $5.99)

If you want to come down from the high of the Joe Biden victory, there isn't a better way to do this than to watch this ultimately-depressing movie.  There is much to recommend it, but the journey it takes you on leads to a very dark place. Maja (Noomi Rapace) is a housewife living in a small town.  Married to a physician, Lewis (Chris Messina), they have a son who is about 8.  The film takes place in about 1959, since the iconic "North By Northwest" is playing at the town movie theatre.  Maya sees a man walk by (Joel Kinnaman) and is convinced that he was the German soldier, "Karl," who raped and killed her sister and raped her in WWII.  It turns out Maja is a member of the Romani people (a.k.a., "a G*psy"), who was in a concentration camp.   When the war was almost over, her family escaped from the camp.  They had nearly made it back to Romania, when the horror occured.  Maja has never told Lewis about any of this. Maja kidnaps the man and, with the help of her ambivalent husband, ties him to a chair in their basement in an effort to make him confess.  He claims innocence (there's a surprise!)  Supposedly, he's from Switzerland and wasn't even in the war.  He lives a few blocks away from them and has a wife and two young children who depend on him.  He pleads for them to let him go, promising not to tell the police. Is Maja correct or mistaken?  Will her husband help her, call the police, or send her to a psych hospital since she could be psychotic?  Will Karl be able to escape before he's killed? The film gets increasingly intense as more and more is revealed.  The ending shocked me and was a real curveball.  Rapace does a fine job and the story is interesting; but I wanted to jump off a cliff after I saw it.  Perhaps Earth would be much better off without us.