Film I Am The Greatest Movie On Earth
posted by on February 20 at 11:59 AM
I Am Cuba opens with the sky meeting the sea, and the waves of the sea meeting the verdant land of Cuba. As the camera flies between the clouds and the land, which is thickly covered by tropical trees, we hear the simple beat of a small drum and a simple tune strummed on a cheap guitar. This is the sound of two or so pathetic peasants; this is the sound of their little lives, their little money, their little learning. A moment later, the simple tune from the guitar is picked up (in the German sense of aufhebung) by a chorus of noble spirits. The heavenly hum of the tune expresses what the exploited long for—a better world. As individuals, their lives might be small and meaningless, but as a whole, as a class that dreams of and struggles for real social transformation, they are great. They are great because they have against the West a moral advantage. No amount of economic abuse and beating can stamp out the nobility of their souls as a whole.
Fidel Castro, my fidelity is to the event that once made you great.
I concur.
Charles, I'll happily buy you a (one-way) ticket to Cuba so you can find out first-hand how wonderful and romantic it is. Oh, and while you're there, be sure to talk to all those folks who are living on $20 a month and would risk their lives to get the fuck outta there.
Charles, If this were 1953 we could have you put into jail for "unamerican activities".
I never thought I would say this but I miss McCarthy, I really do...
Every time I see a cuban exile on TV they look evil. The one thing that tempers my distate for Castro's opressiveness is the thought of any of those cuban exile bits of human rubbish getting anyting for their half-century of self-serving lobbying against the people of Cuba.
If you really thought Mudede was a fool, you'd want to keep him around here to weaken his cause. But when you recognize someone's ideas as a threat, you start wanting to find ways of getting rid of them.
Have you not noticed that you and the same five other libertarians are the only ones who complain about him? And your club is not getting any larger? Only older and older.
Yeah, shitting on the individual but praising some abstract group of people is WAY more morally defensible. Go Communism!
It can be argued that the US (specifically JFK) is responsible for Castro's communism. If we would have just left him the fuck alone (and his buddy Salvadore Allende), he wouldn't have been so paranoid and may have moved toward a socialist democracy.
I guess we'll never know...
Can they eat their "moral advantage" for breakfast?
castro wasn't in power for longer than six months before he contacted the KGB, which resulted in hundreds of soviet "advisors" being sent to cuba.
any "moral advantage" they had died as soon as the soviets came on the scene.
not to mention that the bulk of the "small and meaningless" individuals that were murdered by the revolution died during the early years.
Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate and longer life expectancy than the United States.
See the movie. You'll learn things. You could at least criticize it intelligently instead of repeating tired Freeper slogans.
Most Americans travel to Mexico before they go to Cuba.
Cuba has lower infant mortality and Nazi Germany recovered faster from the Depression.
Woo! Go dictators! Free speech is overrated anyways.
People forget how bad Batista was before Fidel. We don't like Fidel because he kicked the mob and U.S. corporations out of Cuba. He's just as bad as Batita, he just puts different people in prison.
I picked this up from the library the last time Charles raved about it.
It's in Spanish, with a Russian overdub. Yeah, two echoing languages I can't understand with subtitles.
The really long shots with the camera going through the cigar making plant and then being mounted on a wire above the casket were fantastic.
Well, Batista had it in for the darker skinned Cubans, that's for sure.
There was exploitation by Batista and the mob and others and a corrupt and ineuitable society that led to the revolution. Then, they had health and literacy programs that improved health and literacy. But no, this does not excuse not having free elections, free unions, freedom of association, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, equality for gays and other minorities, nor a disastrous economic policy for about 50 years, nor jailing, killing and torturing all kinds of dissidents, poets, artists, gays, and other political prisoners.
They don't have elections because they would lose. It's a criminal dictatorship that violates human rights.
We need to exert all influence to help ensure it changes peacefully like Russia, Poland, East Germany and other dictatorships changed.
We should have a totalitarian film festival. We can show Triumph of the Will and Olympiad by Leni Riefenstahl. The Battleship Potemkin, Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible by Sergei Eisenstein and of course Kalatozov's I am Cuba which Charles feels compelled to pimp about every three fucking months.
Charles could then be the Marxist moron who would masturbate about the glories of the films produced by the commies (while ignoring the fact that if you handed out awards for 20th century mass murderers most of the top ten were Marxists) and we could get some Nazi moron as his counterpart to masturbate about the glories of Nazi Germany and the inherent nobility of the Volk in the Riefenstahl films, while of course ignoring World War II and the Holocaust.
Regardless of your feelings about Charles Mudede, Fidel Castro, or Karl Marx, you've got to be impressed by this film.
elenchos, i still havent hear a coherent reason to move TO cuba. last time i checked people wanted to leave cuba more than people like charles wanted to move in. why is that?
say what you will about higher infant mortality and shorter life expentancy, those years are much better spent in the united states pontificating on the greatness of cuba than vice versa.
as for the exiles; fuck em. never seen a bigger group of cry babies who really dont want to be in the united states but continue to leech off them. if it were up to me, i'd push the boats back to cuba.
You don't have to move to Cuba to rent this movie. What are you talking about? They have it at Scarecrow, among other places.
i think you mean ERhebung, charles
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