An influential Cuban film, and the first to describe the state of Cuban society after the successful social revolution led by Castro. The film delicately reflects the swaying Cuban society in the midst of the Bay of Pigs crisis and the Soviet missile crisis. Through the protagonist's keen observation, he proposes many realities such as humanities, religion, morality, and family in Cuba after Castro's revolution. Interrogation and reflection, the technique also uses flashbacks of memories, and a large number of documentary shots are interspersed to enhance the realistic effect
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The rare thing about "Inconsolable Memories" is the advanced nature of its film language. The director Alea is probably a movie nerd, because the audience can see the trendy style of contemporary European movies everywhere in the film. Stop-motion, montage tricks and complex sound design, for example, are all familiar techniques in French New Wave cinema. The interlude of the protagonist's fantasy and memory is also similar to the same picture in "Eight and a Half" (Sergio with glasses is also a bit like Masduchouni!). Another example is the highly mobile camera, which is also Gundam's usual experimental technique. The main character, Sergio, wanders aimlessly around the room, with the camera following closely. At this moment, the audience is not a bystander, but observes the world from the protagonist's point of view (POV) and shares the feeling of inner loneliness with the protagonist. The film's most experimental techniques are those super close-up shots. The protagonist Sergio is playing with his girlfriend in the bed, and a camera follows the woman's face, making her face fill the whole picture, which seems to show Sergio's strong desire for this woman; after the academic conference discussing the Cuban Revolution, Sergio walked alone down the street, pondering who he was. The camera slowly zoomed from far away to his face, and at the end the picture was only blurred, as if his face could not fully express his inner confusion, so I wanted to penetrate his surface and look inside. understand
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