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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 2005 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Magnolia |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Drama, Feature Film-drama, Movie |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 876964000314 |
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Customer Reviews of The Lost City
Sorry my friend Didn't like this much at all. Pretty damn plodding and hard to believe at times. A little smoke here and there but not much fire. Didn't really get into the music either, due to attention span problems. Way too much latin posturing and not enough true emotion to hook me in. Reminds me of some Robert Redford films, in which he both acted and directed. Style and cinematography, sure, but superficiality and something missing too.
Too much attached to the past ! !
This film could have been a great film with great music, great dancing and great entertainment. Could have been but is not. It is so nostalgic about the past that it forgets to show the frightening connection between the bloody dictatorship of Battista and the necessary armed struggle to get rid of him. In such a situation excess often follows previous excessive violence, especially when we take into account the fact that this dictatorship was supported and even promoted by the big northern neighbor, creating a national longing and feeling that emulated the Cubans into supporting Castro's national movement. The film locks up the debate, if it is a debate, between three brothers. One assassinated by Battista, one joining Castro's movement, and the third one dreaming of what Cuba used to be and what it should be again. Then the film can reduce Castro's movement to unconscious and romantic teenagers who do not know the price nor the taste of life and culture. Then rationing is hinted at as the only reality for Cubans in spite of the fact that for the first time in the history of the island and Latin America education became complete and free, just like medicine and medical assistance. In other words the film misses the only interesting question which is not about 1959 but about now: how is the island going to change and move to its own future? Is that change going to come from outside or from inside? Is that change going to be a revenge or a new stage in the national history of the island? The only thing that is clear is the fact that Castro kicked the maffia out. Is the future synonymous of its or their return? Unluckily we do not get even the slightest beginning of an answer or even a question about the future. We have to be satisfied with the nostalgic vision of the past.
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lost city? lost island? lost nation? lost families? lost everything!
that chain-smoking entertaining era. revolution? for better or for worse? every revolution in the human history actually was just a circle. what goes around, comes around. see russia? see china? see vietnam? see korea? see america? see iraq? after every revolution, either it fast changed a nation inside out, or just slowly changed back to its original status. same xxxx, different regime. it didn't matter if the revolutionists changed the currency or the national flag. you think that 'revolution is not a dinner party' as that fat chairman mao said? but of course every revolution is nothing but a dinner party, only the attendees, the manu and the cuisine changed.