No words, just images, just the sounds of the city and a beautiful soundtrack ... A deep look into the day by day of several inhabitants of Cuba's most universal city: La Habana. A builder, a retarded boy, a dancer, a railway employee, an old woman who sells peanuts in the street, a woman who works in a factory of perfumes... A city in ruins, a country in ruins, working-hard-talented and natural born happy people that are losing the faith, and the hope, and their dreams because of the unmerciful and cruel policies of the Government of the United States Of America (and the people who supports them -those who vote, and those who don't vote against-), and that pig-headed called Castro (he sure has running water and nice food there in his Palace).
Fernando Pérez has made an outstanding job, showing us La Habana as it is, just placing his camera in different places, at different hours, in front of different people. He does not express any opinion, 'cause he does not need to: an image is more valuable than a thousand words, he may think. A view of the Malecón, those 50's cars, the extreme beauty of Cuban women, the ingenuity against the adversity... I don't think many north-Americans will watch this Documentary; but they sure would have to: they need to understand that this embargo condemns millions of people to misery, meanwhile Castro feels safe in his Crystal Palace. This embargo does not affects Castro, affects to the ordinary people of La Habana, Santiago De Cuba, Sierra Maestra, and so... What the USA is doing to Cuba it can be defined by some lyrics from Paul McCartney: LIVE AND LET DIE.
My rate: 8/10
Fernando Pérez has made an outstanding job, showing us La Habana as it is, just placing his camera in different places, at different hours, in front of different people. He does not express any opinion, 'cause he does not need to: an image is more valuable than a thousand words, he may think. A view of the Malecón, those 50's cars, the extreme beauty of Cuban women, the ingenuity against the adversity... I don't think many north-Americans will watch this Documentary; but they sure would have to: they need to understand that this embargo condemns millions of people to misery, meanwhile Castro feels safe in his Crystal Palace. This embargo does not affects Castro, affects to the ordinary people of La Habana, Santiago De Cuba, Sierra Maestra, and so... What the USA is doing to Cuba it can be defined by some lyrics from Paul McCartney: LIVE AND LET DIE.
My rate: 8/10