Before Night Falls Comments

  • Alec 2022-03-24 09:03:37

    After I fell in love with an actor, I found that there are many stories about Cuba in his works, which I have never experienced before. That country is also a place with many stories, which makes ordinary people experience a lot. Excluding the eye-catching aspect of homosexuality, in the end, when the protagonist came to New York in the United States, but was still on the fringes of society as a stateless person, it made people feel unusually depressed and...

  • Cecile 2022-03-24 09:03:37

    Got JohnnyDepp? ? Why didn't I recognize...

  • Wilburn 2022-03-23 09:03:17

    When Johnny Depp showed up, it was a total shock, just another Helena Bonham Carter, and I thought Tim Burton should have married him right away, the job was so good, it could fit into 5 volumes manuscript. I have always liked Julian Schnabel because of his poetry. He always breaks the pattern of genre films and extracts endless poetry from ordinary stories. Of course, Javier Bardem's divine acting is the key to moving people. ....

  • Jeff 2022-03-23 09:03:17

    Messy and cluttered, with no theme. Depp is the highlight. The whole film is thinking about why homosexuality is mostly produced by a single mother, and why it is so easy to produce great writers and great...

  • Dewitt 2022-03-23 09:03:17

    I am that repulsive child that improvises a bed out of an old cardboard box and waits, certain that you will accompany...

  • Aurelia 2022-03-23 09:03:17

    Personally, I think it's a bad movie. It tells the story of a writer who was persecuted in Cuba ruled by the Communist Party because of his homosexuality and finally fled to a free America. It's very cliché and...

  • Carleton 2022-03-23 09:03:17

    A life of misery for Reinaldo Arenas. The poor childhood that no one cares about, the humble upbringing, the humble and bright youth, the revolution began to subvert the regime, and the comrade who was excluded under the oppressive politics was imprisoned for no reason. The pain that inspired his memories stimulated him to write, and finally escaped. The oppression fell into a psychological whirlpool and died of AIDS. Pain becomes praise, sorrow becomes rhetoric, destined to be unforgettable...

  • Mathilde 2022-03-23 09:03:17

    20130209 The little protagonist starring GAY really caught my hand / The filming was quite messy, but I can add more after reading the synopsis / I didn't come for Uncle Qiang, but Sean Penn scared me / went home. Back to Cuba? Lose freedom there, but it is root after all. / The first experience is really well written.

  • Enid 2022-03-23 09:03:17

    The 2-hour-long description of the legendary life of Reynardo felt incomparable vicissitudes after reading it. The screenplay was meticulous, the actors were excellent, the soundtrack was wonderful, and the colors were nostalgic. Cuba in the 1960s was full of enthusiasm for art collision and revolution, and it was serious and sad in the context of political satire. freedom...

  • Brenna 2022-03-23 09:03:17

    The biggest attraction of this film is definitely not the glimpse of Depp and Sean Penn, but the director's efforts to restore the crazy and turbulent Cuban society in the 1960s and 1970s. Javier Bardem, as always, gave a shocking performance , the film reflects the director's consistent handling of character dramas, using a lot of psychological fantasy scenes and narration, and the narrative is also a vague and intense dramatic conflict, focusing on portraying the inner feelings of the...

Extended Reading
  • Mabelle 2022-03-14 14:12:30

    traitor

    The protagonist's life is a legend. If only from the perspective of a country child becoming a great writer through his own efforts, it is an inspirational film. Judging from the extreme persecution of homosexuals by the government, this is a story of resisting violence and celebrating...

  • John 2022-03-02 08:01:06

    gays seeking freedom

    Fuck, foreigners really like to be gay, especially the white people who advocated the freedom of being gay, and it's easy to change from straight to gay or bisexual. The male protagonist of this film went to a brothel to pick up girls and prostitutes at such a young age, but he grew up and became...

Before Night Falls quotes

  • Reinaldo Arenas: [narrating] Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand as beauty.

  • Reinaldo Arenas: Walking along streets that collapse from crumbling sewers. Past buildings that you jump to avoid because they will fall on you. Past grim faces that size you up and sentence you. Past closed shops, closed markets, closed cinemas, closed parks, closed cafes. Sometimes showing dusty signs, justifications: "CLOSED FOR RENOVATION," "CLOSED FOR REPAIRS." What kind of repairs? When will these so-called renovations be finished? When at last will they begin? Closed... closed... closed... everything closed. I arrive, open the countless padlocks and run up the temporary stairs. There she is, waiting for me. I pull off the cover, and stare at her dusty, cold shape. I clean off the dust and caress her. With my hand, delicately, I wipe clean her back, her base and her sides. In front of her, I feel desperate and happy. I run my fingers over her keyboard and suddenly it all starts up. With a tinkling sound the music begins, little by little, then faster; now full speed. Walls, trees, streets, cathedrals, faces and beaches. Cells, mini- cells, huge cells. Starry nights, bare feet, pines, clouds. Hundreds, thousands, millions of parrots. A stool, a climbing plant, they all answer my call, all come to me. The walls recede, the roof vanishes, and you float quite naturally. You float uprooted, dragged off, lifted high. Transported, immortalized, saved. Thanks to that subtle, continuous rhythm, that music, that incessant tap-tap.