Blame it on Fidel

[ernie]

I recently watched La Faute à Fidel! (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0792966/) (Blame it on Fidel! is the English title) . I really liked it and highly recommend it. Has anybody seen it?

[Kassad]

Can't say I have. Could you give a brief decription? As a person who isn't too hostile towards Castro, it is a slight turn off. Granted, his true colors show when he appoints himself president, but his revolution is a symbol of the power of socialism. Care to elaborate?

[ernie]

Can't say I have. Could you give a brief decription? As a person who isn't too hostile towards Castro, it is a slight turn off. Granted, his true colors show when he appoints himself president, but his revolution is a symbol of the power of socialism. Care to elaborate?
LOL. I thought the same thing when I heard the title. It's misleading, though, as it has (almost) absolutely nothing to do with the plot.


A 9-year-old girl, Anna de la Mesa (played by Nina Kervel (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nina_Kervel&action=edit&redlink=1)), weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris). Her Spanish-born lawyer father Fernando (played by Stefano Accorsi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefano_Accorsi)) is inspired by his family's opposition to Franco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco) and Salvador Allende (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende)'s victory in Chile (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile); he quits his job and becomes a liaison for Chilean activists in France. Her mother, a Marie Claire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Claire) journalist-turned-writer documenting the stories of women's abortion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion) ordeals, supports her husband and climbs aboard the ideological bandwagon. As a result, Anna's French bourgeois life is over. She must adjust to refugee nannies, international cuisine and a cramped apartment full of noisy revolutionaries.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Granted, his true colors show when he appoints himself president

Fidel didn't "appoint himself president."

[Davie zepeda]

ahahah i cloud consider my self one of those parents lol.

[Kassad]

Let me rephrase. In a Communist society, there shouldn't be a president. There isn't a hierarchy of supremacy and that's exactly what Fidel allowing himself to gain governmental clout over the citizens of Cuba is doing. Granted, Fidel has done a great job and I respect him greatly for showing Socialism is successful, so don't take that the wrond way.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

But Cuba isn't a communist society. Cuba is a backward, imperialist-oppressed country in a hostile capitalist world. It is constructing socialism in extremely difficult conditions. The only thing that can ensure the success of socialism, and thus a communist future, is the extension of the revolution internationally.