Bitter Sugar
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Movie Reviews of Bitter Sugar
Movie Review: When you have nothing, why not do nothing together?
Summary: 5 Stars
This visually stunning, slap-in-your-face film is ultimately painful to watch. You have to admire revolutionaires that for nationalism & personal conviction are willing to put up with so little so much of the time. Watching those young people applauding at the outdoor Castro speech rallies makes you wonder what other options they had. They either wanted to be there & feed their anti-Yankee imperialism beliefs or felt that they would be questioned for staying away. Or perhaps there was nothing better or more interesting to do than attend that outdoor group experience. When you have nothing, why not do nothing together & show solidarity en-masse.The fresh music & performances heard in the movie, esp. the afro cuban (more afro than cuban, interestingly enough) is a delight to hear and enjoy the proto-African flavored dances that both black & white execute in this film.
When my uncle was last permitted to vacation in Miami--before Clinton made it difficult for the frequent immigration & visits of Cuban nationals--he was often questioned as to why he kept returning to Cuba after his yearly visits to Miami. He was well read in Marxist authors & it showed when he spoke. His Miami relatives questioned him as to why if things were so scare as he claimed they were, though not so scarce that he would repeatedly return to Cuba visit after visit during the 90s, why didn't the remaining Cubans with nary a roast chicken to eat even on Sunday, not rise up & rectify things. His reponse was: we don't rise up because all the brave & decisive Cubans have left & migrated to the USA or other ports of haven.
Or maybe the brave Cubans are still in Cuba holding onto what little remains of a native Cuban culture & identity there still is instead of wanting the wild abandon & comfort & endless summer after a hard day at the offices or local Walmarts of Miami, USA.
Movie Review: Azucar Amarga (Bitter Sugar) is an Outstanding Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I couldn't stop thinking about this movie after watching it. It is remarkable how life has deteriorated in Cuba since I left in 1980 at the tender age of fifteen. This was the same year Lavan (the main character), left the island on the Mariel boat lift. My family moved to Chicago, not Miami, so I quickly blended into American society and 'forgot' about Cuba. Family members who left post Mariel often described the conditions there, but I could never bring myself to fathom so much of it was real. I'm extremely grateful to be an American citizen living the American dream. However, my heart 'cries' for the many young people who are trapped in an obsolete communist society where they can't even afford to have dreams. This movie forced me to consider how the lives of my young nieces and nephews might have turned out. My father fought for Cuba's Revolution; he was a young idealist revolutionary just like Gustavo. Dad left the island in 1986 after years of disillusionment. People who haven't lived "it" can't comprehend it. Some individuals are quick to criticize anti-Castro voices, even though they've never actually experienced life in an oppressive regime. Those people never cease to fascinate me. How could they possibly understand that living there is like living in an insane asylum? The AIDS facility where Gustavo's brother was forcibly interned is nothing more than a microcosm of the entire island of Cuba where people hopelessly and aimlessly exist. Not live, but exist. I give this movie FIVE STARS hands down.Movie Review: Followup on this movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie potrays the situation in Cuba very well. Although its somewhat sugarcoated and was filmed in another place other than cuba of course.I have to reply to one of these reviews because it insults me and my mom, who came from cuba in '62. There is one reviewer that basically insults the Cuban community. This person is obvious a pinko-leftist bias that probably admires "da great fidel castro". I wonder what your cuban parents think. Im sure he would love to live in filth like most cuban people live today. Everything there is decaying. Id be interested in the proof of how Reagen killed more people in his own country than Fidel does. I didnt know american presidents killed their own citizens for opinions possibly opposing the government. You are insulting the wrong people. Aparently you dont want democracy for Cuba either.
Movie Review: A fifth star for having the guts to make this movie.
Summary: 5 Stars
Made in beautiful black and white plus an infinite range of greys, this is a "Romeo and Juliet" in modern world story with Capuletos and Montescos being the People vs Big Brother Castro.It's not Casablanca but it could be a classic if the academia one day took off their mask and recognized its quality.
As for the reviewer below, this is not propaganda from Miami. This is about people who want to be free and people -like you- who want others to be slaves. And listen up: there is no blockade, millions of sex-searching tourists with no conscience seek the island every year leaving their money at hotels where Cubans are not allowed to enter and the tips to the prostitutes.
Cuba is a slave country, you are in your right to like it, but at least admit it.
Movie Review: ABSOLUTELY TRUTHFUL
Summary: 5 Stars
FROM AMAZON'S REVIEW OF THIS MOVIE, I CAN TELL NONE OF YOU HAVE BEEN TO CUBA OR SPOKEN TO SOMEONE WHO'S RECENTLY ARRIVED. THE MOVIE IS "GENTLE" IN IT'S DEPICTION OF THE REALITY OF LIFE IN CUBA. IF THE MOVIE HAD REVEALED THE LIVES OF THOSE WHO ARE NOT PRIVILEDGED ENOUGH TO WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT RUN TOURISM INDUSTRY, NO ONE WOULD BE ABLE TO SIT THROUGH IT. IE- YOU CAN GO TO JAIL FOR SIX MONTHS IF THERE IS FOOD FOUND IN YOUR HOME WHICH EXCEDES THE ONE POUND OF RICE AND ONE POUND OF BEANS ALLOWED IN THE MONTHLY RATION. WAKE UP FOLKS, IGNORANCE IS OUR GREATEST ENEMY.