Memories of Underdevelopment Comments

  • Crawford 2023-09-10 21:19:53

    Unique cut-in perspective: the rambling thoughts of a bourgeois intellectual outside the highly tense political landscape, he can obtain short-term conquest and pleasure in young, beautiful and energetic women, but cannot establish further intimacy, Get used to consumption, get used to shirk responsibility. In the end, it is the same as the annoying person I described before: old and rotten. Influenced by the French New Wave and rational montage, the editing is rough and coquettish. Because of...

  • Aric 2023-07-14 11:27:34

    I don't know much about Cuba... The least Latin American movie I've ever seen... And it's like the French New Wave in the...

  • Winston 2023-05-04 23:13:34

    7. Although "I Am Cuba" is shot from a national perspective, it does use a very subjective way of telling; although this is a personal perspective, it is a relatively objective...

  • Kurtis 2022-09-19 23:16:13

    Free and dexterous but full of skill. It seems that Cuban cinema is still quite liberal in a socialist...

  • Laverna 2022-09-18 11:45:15

    The Lost Soul of a Cuban Writer's Midlife...

  • Vito 2022-09-09 20:16:21

    What was post-revolutionary Cuba like? Good shot, flaws...

  • Malvina 2022-04-24 07:01:24

    Abrupt flashbacks, fantasy scenes, continuous inner monologues, various techniques, random collages, quite...

  • Kelli 2022-04-24 07:01:24

    The perfect combination of staring and surging, while irrationally restless and irrational...

  • Junius 2022-04-24 07:01:24

    Four point five. Stream of consciousness, more than Alain Resnais: watch the market around the protagonist, fast subject replacement (sex), brothel, really beautiful. However, the long mirror of stream of consciousness still cannot accept it. That old black tree needs a long mirror to push it, push it to the river, push it to other trees, and push it to other houses. Since the subconscious mind, the world should be a perfect emotional whole. Revolution to me equals absolute love. But what about...

  • Pauline 2022-04-24 07:01:24

    Three and a half stars, another film that needs to understand the relevant historical background. Using stream-of-consciousness to tell the story of the male protagonist's Cuban past, the camera is constantly detached from the protagonist, interspersed with various historical facts and monologues, and observing the social changes in Cuba from multiple angles is too...

Extended Reading
  • Addie 2022-02-24 08:02:19

    The Mist of Interstitials: Existential Dissatisfaction in "Memories of Low Development"

    Press: "Failure" is a long and chaotic collapse, and we can hardly even expect it to bring about a black and white binary situation with a little kindness. In most cases, individuals in the "failure" can only make spontaneous choices within a very limited range under the surging waves, which breeds...

  • Roslyn 2022-02-24 08:02:19

    Others have beaten chicken blood, but I am very bad!

    As a first-class film director at the time, Aleia made such a beautiful work without any publicity value, and it was passed, which is really a big mystery.

    It turned out that in the intellectual world in 1968, everyone was in a situation of suspicion. They liked this kind of entertainment work that...

Memories of Underdevelopment quotes

  • Sergio Carmona Mendoyo: One thing about people that upsets me is their inability to sustain something without collapsing. Take Elena: she was totally inconsistent. Didn't relate things. That's a symptom of underdevelopment: the inability to relate things, to gain experience, develop. It's difficult here because women are conditioned by sentiments and culture. A soft environment. People waste talents on inconsistent adaptations. They always need someone to think for them.