I can deeply feel the director's resentment. He may be happy in Cuba, but he was forced to leave his hometown and come to the United States at the age of 5. In the film he himself played a role, the eldest son of an important family in Cuba's upper class. The influence of this family is really huge, and it can even influence the trend of Cuban society. The emphasis on "not being late" at family dinners is nothing more than an effort to maintain rules and order. And this family’s attitude towards Cuban politics is the same. They seek stability and blindly seek stability, but they don’t want the second son and the youngest son to participate in the revolution: the second son participated in the assassination of President Batista, and the youngest son even became Castells. Luo and Guevara's close comrades. So the different choices between the brothers also refer to the different directions of Cuba at the crossroads in the late 1950s, so the dramatic conflicts entangled and unfolded here. When the second son died in the hands of Batista's bodyguard, when the youngest son committed suicide because he forced his uncle to death, the eldest son Figo had to leave the United States.
This is a movie full of time and emotion. Director Andy Garcia was over half a hundred years old when he starred in this film, but everything is just like 16 years ago when he played an artist and ballroom owner in his early thirties. 16 years of time has been concealed in the ingenious handwork of the makeup artist, and he is really brilliant. Perhaps resentment took him through the valley of time. However, the actor Dustin Hoffman makes people unbearable to look at him-a wretched old mafia boss. My life, has Hoffman been like this...
This is also a movie full of resentment. In the film, because the second son of the family died in an assassination operation, after Castro came to power, his widow was awarded an extremely absurd title: "Revolutionary Widow of the Year". At that time, Figo's girlfriend was killed by a terrorist bomb. The younger brother-in-law who entrusted her to take care of her before his death had already wiped out the spark of love with him. But she was the "Revolutionary Widow of the Year", so she had to marry the Revolution and continue her political career-so the two were destined to be unable to stand by each other. When they met on American soil many years later, they still held their hands in tears. Still the love between Asuka and fish. However, Figo wanted to stay. He loved Cuban land and Cuban singing and dancing. However, Castro's government told him that the saxophone used by his band was an "imperialist instrument." He knew that he could not stay in Cuba, but he could only stay away from here and leave everything, including watches, rings, banknotes, family tokens, and only take away the endless homesickness.
So it is not difficult for us to understand why Castro never had a face in the film, and why the youngest son of the guerrilla must commit suicide. Andy Garcia loves Cuban singing and dancing and Cuban soil, not political socialist Cuba. However, such a film cannot deny politics. Fortunately, Che Guevara is already a cultural symbol of the global youth, so he appears in the movie grandiosely. That's why the parallel editing of the assassination of the president is so wonderful, the gunfight and the dance are opposite, and the assassins who rushed into the presidential palace are stepping on dance steps that belong to Cuba. It turns out that Andy Garcia played Godfather 3, so he prefers to adopt a godfather-style story. But he still talks too much, but he is still obsessed with Cuba in his heart. How can that half-century of homesickness be spelled out clearly in a two-and-a-half-hour movie.
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