User Reviews

WOW WOW WOW!!!Documents the oppressed lives of Fidels Island hell. Too bad the dictator and his accomplices have kept this great film from your eyes and ears. Chris Hume did a great job of filming the average day in Castro's Cuba, he did this right under the Dictators nose. A must see IF YOU CAN FIND IT. A quote from the film "In Cuba there is no paint for the buildings, but there's plenty of paint Revolutionary Slogans". SEE THIS FILM, if the powers that be let you, that is.

Absolute garbage! If you want a real look at Cuba, watch Cuba and the Cameraman. Ignore this biased diatribe!

I felt like I was watching a Voice of America production, funded by zealous right-wing Cuban exiles. Whenever images of Fidel Castro were shown, the music would turn dark and ominous. So many editing and directing decisions revealed the very biased perspective that the filmmakers so clearly didn't even realize they have. (Like a fish who lives in water its entire life, and can't tell you what it's like to swim in air or any other medium, these SoCal based folk swim in the culture of glorification of "the freedom to make dollars" and our own U.S. culture of materialistic brainwashing, and couldn't see their own bias to instead value anything other about what IS right/good/true about the Cuban experiment. The creators glossed over the gratis freedom to be fully educated/trained to develop one's mind, as well as the universal access to housing, health care, and food. While Cuba certainly has its problems, I felt this was an attempt to glorify the "freedom" to make money (or to eat fast food), a la United States and to ridicule Cuba for its relative material simplicity and egalitarian values. No mention of green medicine projects or sustainable agriculture or of the low crime and obesity rates in Cuba. The film's creators were at the screening, and admitted never living in Cuba, and not having been back for the past 15 years. The only Cuban who 'd actually lived in Cuba recently attempted to dispute the filmmakers' imbalanced presentation, and they essentially wrote him off as having been brainwashed or ill-informed.