El cuerno de la abundancia

I recently traveled to Cuba and get captivated by its beauty, its people (which are fun and friendly), and the society in general that seems to have a good mood which makes everyone forgets the problems they probably can have.

This movie keeps the fun and friendly atmosphere of the current Cuban society throughout all the sequences. The rhythm of the storytelling is easy to follow and enjoy; this is achieved thanks to a main character (Jorge Perugorría) that also plays the role of the narrator.

All the actors in the movie are brilliant with an spontaneity-like touch. Jorge Perugorría is an amazing leading actor as he demonstrated in many other movies such as Fresa y Chocolate.

I really enjoyed it.

This film does not only show the beauty of Cuban landscape and how good and funny the people are there. Tabío, the director of the film, did a good job, he presented the labyrinths the people must go through to survive in Cuba. The plot, a millionaire inheritance from Spain, was conceived brilliantly and from here you will notice hypocrisy and false values of some persons involved and kindness or conformism of others. This comedy in a very comic way is about the difficulties of the people to live, how they fight for getting a single dollar, the existing promiscuity in the society and in houses much needed of maintenance, roofs of some of them falling down, and those persons living in may be harmed or seriously wounded when this happens. In an invented village called Yaragüey, Bernardito, the hero of the film, works in an office and in the evening together with his wife leases video-films for making more money, something that they do secretly since it is legally forbidden. The criticism of the Cuban economical situation is implicit in the film but shown in a very relaxed way, for not to say in the Cuba way. Funny to see the behavior of a bourgeois old woman and that of a communist old man, the latter was very radical and always blaming the embargo of all problems they suffer. Since not many people are able to understand the Cuban way of speaking Spanish and some other local details it is advisable to see the film with subtitles.

Well after the the registration that it wasn't bad, I can say that the movie was just fantastic: first a comedy with a turn on drama well done the actors typical Latin type loud, passionated, funny an sensual. While I was watching the movie (today 10/13/2009 ) HBO; my main was traveling in time and making me dreamed about my neighborhood, and all the people involved in it; it was like living the movie or better to say been in the movie.... Well directed and again good choice in the music( remain me the parties that my family use to play when I was a child the boleros and the music just beautiful specially last one, the background. I have to find the soundtrack of the movie... if somebody knows how to get it will be wonderful; as I writing this note my tears of sadness and happiness is making my vision blurry...My daughter next to me ask is it really Latin people like the movie and I just say yes... we are like them in every sense of the word... thanks guys for this wonderful movie...that I guess only Latin people will understand this movie..