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A |
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A+ |
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A |
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B+ |
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B |
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Forty Seven years ago....
by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile)
Aug 13, 2006
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20 people found this review helpful
I loved the movie! The movie adjusts very well to reality, how the Cuban family was destroyed, how decent people were manipulated, brainwashed, used and later deceived by these criminal adventurers who replaced a bad regime with a totalitarian dictatorship. Chaos came afterwards. I was thinking about the tobacco plantation, the night club EL Tropico and all other businesses falling in the hands of incapable extremists anxious to destroy everything. That's how Cuba's economy was destroyed.
For most Cubans who were born after 1959 it is good to see pieces of history they were never told. The Cuban regime has changed history and there are no books, magazine articles or pictures from this period. Only what the government publishes and approves. Only cubans older than 1959 know or heard who all these artists like Bola de Nieve, Rolando Laserie, etc. The movie does a good job resuming most of the violent episodes of 1958, like Fangio's kidnapping, assault to the presidential palace on March 13th by Directorio Revolucionario lead by Jose A Echevarria; here the movie shows there were other groups fighting against Batista inside the cities. These groups were later prosecuted and disbanded by Castro's 26 de Julio. Pretty much like the bolcheviks consolidated their power in Russia after 1917.
For the Cubans in the US, it is a very important and sad movie because we are still experiencing the family division initiated in 1959.
Thanks to Andy Garcia and to all the actors and actresses in this movie for their excellent job. Our love to Lorena Feijoo our dancing diva! |
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