Balseros
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Movie Reviews of Balseros
Movie Review: Buenisimo. Great Documentary
Summary: 5 Stars
Este documental es uno de mis preferidos. No solamente es realista, sino que ademas te muestra diferentes enfoques de una misma realidad. Te muestra la situacion de cinco o seis balseros (gente que no tienen nada en comun los unos con los otros) y te deja ver todo lo que esta gente hace para salir de Cuba, su llegada a los Estados Unidos y como se desarrollan sus vidas al cabo de los años. Es un documental completo. Pienso que cualquier persona lo deberia ver independientemente de su nacionalidad, porque en realidad este es un tema que nos concierne a todos. Balseros es ameno, es real, es capaz de tocate el corazon.... Cualquier emigrante se puede identificar con muchos de los problemas por los que estas personas pasan. Yo se lo recomiendo a todo el mundo; yo misma no me canso de verlo. (la musica es estupenda, interpretada por una vocalista cubana llamada Lucrecia, derroche de voz y de lo mejor de la musica cubana). No dejen de verlo.Movie Review: One of the best documentaries on migration
Summary: 5 Stars
The movie documents the lives of half a dozen Cubans as they struggle to escape their wretched lives to reach the land of dreams. Seen in a braoder context, I could immediately relate to the hopes and aspirations of people in various corners of the third world as they seek to make a home in the West.
Most interesting was to note how fragile human relationships are - majority of these 6 Cubans who finally make it to America find loving and living with people against all promises made to loved ones when departing. Since this documentary tracks the lives of these people across several years, it provides a rich historical context to measure the reality against the dreams that these immigrants had when departing for America.
Thankfully, the movie stays away from any political overtones (as in Castro-bashing, or America/ CIA bashing).
Movie Review: Balseros
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are Cuban this movie will mean the world to you. My husband and I are Cuban and this movie really moved us. These people depicted, are our people, they are the mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, uncle, aunts and cousins we have left behind when our families left the island. And they want to be free too, but like everything in life, freedom comes with a price and some people don't want to pay the price no matter what the benefit. Whether you were born in Cuba or another country, everyone should see this movie and be grateful we live in the United States of America.Movie Review: Understanding Cuba!
Summary: 5 Stars
An excellent account of how cubans escaped communist Cuba in 1994 building rafts and sailing across to their dream of America.
It follows the lives for 5 people who made the crossing. The film follows their struggle on arriving in America and looks at their lives 6 years on.
This is a True Story which is still happening today.
The film is in Spanish but there are subtitles.
Get the hankies ready!
Movie Review: An Interesting Look
Summary: 4 Stars
This was an interesting documentary about a brief period of time during the Clinton administration in which Cubans were so desperate to leave Cuba (either to reunite with family in the United States or to come to what they thought were cities of gold) that they risked their lives and took to the sea on flimsy rafts that I wouldn't get into a pool on. The film documented several people making their rafts, putting them out to see, being turned back to Cuba to be held at Guantanamo Bay, being given lottery tickets to come to the U.S. and then how they faired once they got here. It seemed, for many, to be a hard life they were leaving and a hard life they were coming to. The documentary doesn't focus much on the politics of what was going on at the time -- there are some brief mentions of Castro opening the flood gates and letting people leave if they wanted and Clinton turning people away for a brief time, but most of the film discusses the hopes and dreams of people thinking there was a better way of life out there and how desperate they were to get to it.
An interesting film and worth watching for some perspective.
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