I just saw the passionate, dramatic and moving film "Lost City" by Andy Garcia about his native Cuba. The music, the costumes, the dances - everything is there. Clearly Garcia has done the film with love; as he says it is indeed the work of his life-time. It left me with unexplainable sadness because that world was so brutally killed and lost forever. Revolution, a beautiful word filled with expectations that should be something positive but in most cases has been only murderous, brutal and vulgar. So in the case of Cuba as well.
What is so remarkably strange is the Western attitude towards Che Guevara, Fidel Castro and the revolution. Despite the excesses of this revolution, the many refugees and the more than 20 000 killed, anti-globalization's freedom fighters do not hesitate to carry Ernesto on their shoulders. As if anything anti-American by default was good, Western Europe never really condemned the hostile takeover by the Soviets. One cannot help but wonder if there aren't examples of this attitude around today as well.
Andy Garcia has created a film that shows a world that once existed and a world that will never be. I warmly recommend this film both for its artistic value and its historic content.
posted by Emilia.kk @ 8:39 AM
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