Memories of Underdevelopment

By 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 many ambiguous liminal spaces. Set in the context of the Cuban political crisis in the early 1960s, Memories of the Underdeveloped, the protagonist Sergio wanders the streets of...

By Anne 2022-02-24 08:02:19

Crisis of the Intellectual in a Post-Revolutionary Society

Memories of the Underdevelopment (Alea, 1967) portrays a good-looking bourgeois man’s self-examined life in post-revolutionary Cuba. Through the character’s affairs and fantasies, the film shows the shortcomings of an apathetic and bitter individual and critiques his bourgeois roots. Yet the Cuban film is also atypically ambivalent in its characterization of bourgeois mentality, since it also to show tensions between an intelligent individual and his overwhelming social reality. Memories places...

By 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 only kept asking questions and had a pure aesthetic sense. Just in the tense revolutionary atmosphere everywhere, it's good to be entertained, they are too talented.

This state of mind...

By Sylvia 2022-02-24 08:02:19

out-of-office participants

The most impressive movie about Cuba is the famous dazzling work "I Am Cuba", which also has a clear political stance and ideological expression in the crazy dazzling show, just like the greatest propaganda of the proletarian revolution attitude. The film is also filled with a lot of ideological discourses and political positions. The identity and way of life of the male protagonist Sergio and post-revolution Cuba are inherently a class contradiction. In the process of...

By Bailee 2022-02-24 08:02:19

[Tell me, memory...]

That year, Sergio was 38 years old. He wandered the streets and took a standard photo at a photo booth on the side of the street. He was mediocre, abject, completely lacking in his former style, and his dull eyes didn't know where to look.
Outside the painting, there is a voice: 38 years old, old, just feel stupid, stiff, like broken fruit, like waste. Maybe it's a tropical relationship, everything doesn't last... The
man sits on the ground, with drawers and photo albums...

By 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...

By 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...

By 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...

By 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...

By Laverna 2022-09-18 11:45:15

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