The Lost City
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Movie Review: The Lost City
Summary: 5 Stars
Enjoyed Andy Garcia's "The Lost City". I was only nine years old when the overthrow of Batista occurred and was living in Colombia, S.A. We moved to the USA in 1961, because of the civil war that had taken place in Colombia;as a nine year old child I did not understand the political factors involved in the world and specifically the Cold War. The Lost City fills in a gap of time that I was too young to appreciate. Seeing a family struggle with what is the right thing to do during a very difficult political situation only makes me appreciate how lucky we are in the USA where our forefathers had the wisdom (after having experienced the injustices of European life) to have safe guards with checks and balances of power built into our Constitution and thus avoid despot rulers like Batista and Castro, regardless of what side of the political spectrum they espouse.Movie Review: A film made with the heart
Summary: 5 Stars
I always had the dream that some day the true history of the cuban people tragedy become known to the world throught a real piece of art that show the inmense suffer that Castro's Cuban Revolution inflict on the cuban families. This film is the best try I know in this respect. And when you note that Andy Garcia is the producer, director, plays the main role, writes many of the film music, and that the cost of only the shoes used in Titanic surpased the whole cost of the Andy's film, you begin to realize the inmense effort that he made to bring this history to us. Thanks a lot to him for the film and to Guillermo Cabrera Infante (+) for the story.
This film is not another frivolous Hollywood film. It has a good aesthetic level, show us what happened in Cuba, and was made with the heart. I recommend it.
Movie Review: An amazingly heartfelt and educational film
Summary: 5 Stars
The word "patria" means homeland in Spanish...and sometimes, when we live in the land of freedom, we forget what it means and we forget how to love it. This is the first movie that I have seen that depicts the harshness of Castro's revolution in a way for people to understand. It provides concrete examples of why it's so horrible...everything from taking your property to having to leave your family. It also briefly shows the jails where so many political prisoners were held in the years to follow. It wasn't only those that worked for Batista...in the following years, thousands of men and women were imprisoned for their political views without due process.
If that time in the history of Cuba had to be summed up in 2 hours, Andy Garcia hit the nail on the head as best as it could be done.
Movie Review: A typical tragedy of the once happy Cuban people
Summary: 5 Stars
Andy Garcia masterfully tells a very typical story among Cuban families in the early sixties. There are hundreds of thousands Ficos in the world today, that were forced to emigrate from Cuba leaving averything they owned behind in order to escape a tirany that was sofocating and inhumane. The story of how Che Guevara conducted his campaign to exterminate the "enemies of the revolution" as told in the picture, is the true story of what really happened there. I lived in Cuba until 1962 and personally witnessed very similar stories on which individuals reneged and forgot their friends and loved ones leting them be tortured and executed by the communists without lifting a finger to save them, when they could have done something to help spare their lives.Movie Review: The Lost City
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an artistic masterpiece, in terms of the story, the plot, the music, cinematography, fashion of that epoc in Cuba, settings sceenery,etc. The blend of the background-forground music with the action is amazing. Even though fiction, the historic value is remarkable: representation of events, sequence of events, magnitud of events, vingnets of issues and characteristics of the process, representation of the Cuban spirit, etc.
I'm a 65 year-old Cuban woman who lived through that historic time. I'm a psychologist, mother of seven children , all successfull college graduates and grandmother of 19 children.
I'm very greatful to Andy Garcia for the gift of this movie.
Maria T. Carbonell, Montgomery Village, Maryland