The whole movie is rather dull, and there are some traces of musicals, it is hard to be called a masterpiece.
However, the Cuban background of 1958-1959 and the changes of the family in this era have to be contemplated.
From the perspective of Chinese ideological education, this is an anti-Communist film, full of bourgeois liberalization. GFW's blockade of information may be for fear of peaceful evolution. However, the trend can never be stopped. What is true democracy, freedom, and what is the best interpretation of human nature will eventually understand the world.
In the 1940s, Chinese families were full of similar stories. The most extreme ones participated in the revolution of the left to overthrow the dictatorship, while those in the middle participated in the revolutionary forces but sacrificed for freedom and democracy in the early days, and some insisted on their beliefs in social changes. If you choose to leave when your beliefs have to be changed, the last one may be an escape, and you will do nothing in the face of dictatorship or so-called revolution.
Those who sacrificed for freedom may be worthy of praise, and those who succeeded in revolution but were abandoned or even committed suicide by their families may only be a tragedy. As for those in exile, they can only recall and imagine the ideal homeland of freedom.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s right or wrong. People who threw their heads and blood in the revolution may be worthy of respect, but whether the ruling after the success of the regime is truly beneficial to the people is unknown. When you hear the bourgeois Saxophone, you can’t help but think of our country. The great people would rather socialist grass than capitalist seedlings. Of course, this is also a kind of sorrow.
Fortunately, China is constantly improving.
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