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...

  • Edythe 2022-02-24 08:02:19

    Gutierrez has completed a film that can only exist in the minds of new wave directors such as Godard Oshima Nagisa, but cannot really be completed. "Memories of Low Development" jumps, but is closely related to the grand narrative, voiceover, and confession. Jump cut inserts not only memories, but also the history of the Cuban revolution. Nothing Had Changed, as Sergio described it as he watched this "underdeveloped" urban space, a stranger who couldn't join the revolutionary crowd, didn't leave, or couldn't leave. This world will never belong to us, Cuba as a third world is nothing but a game between the United States and the Soviet Union. Everything is disappearing, and the Iron Curtain of ideology and the Cold War is increasingly dominating everything. He couldn't join the revolution, and the "people" turned to him. Is this a Happy Ending? Looking at the imminent war and the tanks on the street, it seems to have understood.

  • Wellington 2022-04-19 09:02:55

    Very French New Wave, successfully captured the political hesitations of Cuba and Cuban citizens in the 1960s through a middle-class affair.

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.