why are foreign movies' ending's so awkward and confusing? even i could've made it better....I'm not hatin or anything, I thought the rest of the movie was brilliant and interesting, just the ending boggled my mind.
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smh to the trolls on IMDB
I personally find the ending really poignant!
Diego is enamoured with Cuban culture, which can be seen through the various artefacts displayed around his home. The Cuban altar is of particular significance, as it epitomises the Cuba which he loves so. This aspect of his personality makes the ending of the film, when he must abandon his country because he cannot live out is potential fully, even more dramatic. It is incredibly sad that Diego must leave the country he loves because it cannot find a place for him.
I agree with the poster above me. There was nothing confusing about the ending. This movie is a self-critical look at the persistence of homophobia under the revolution. Diego is a patriotic Cuban who loves his country and doesn't support its enemies, but nevertheless he's been pushed away, excluded from the revolution, and ultimately forced to leave Cuba itself, when all he wanted was to improve upon it, not to throw it away. But the revolution considered him an enemy, and needlessly forced him to leave.
The movie was calling on Cuba to reject homophobia, to embrace gay people as part of Cuban society. That was what the final hug was about in the end. David, the loyal communist, represented Cuban society and the revolution. Diego, alone and rejected, represented the Cuban gay community, who weren't given a place in the revolution. He had been trying to reach out to David, to allow him to embrace him as a friend, as an equal, as part of the revolution. The Cuban revolution, historically (and I say historically because this is changing now), considered homosexuality a legacy of bourgeois culture, and therefore counterrevolutionary, and rejected and persecuted it. David said to him "you're not a revolutionary". But Diego vehemently disagreed. It wasn't Diego who rejected the revolution, it was the revolution, as represented by David, who rejected Diego. Diego was reaching out, wanting to embrace David, to embrace the revolution, but David refused and kept him at arm's length. But at the end, David finally accepted Diego for who he is, and reached back and embraced him. This was the movie asking Cuba to reach back and embrace gay people as part of the revolution, to allow gay people to have a place in socialism.
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