Is this movie right-wing propaganda?
I haven't seen the film yet but I sure hope it presents the story as merely an objective story not the tired right-wing propaganda about how "evil" Cuba is under the Castro regime.
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MovieChat Forums > Una noche (2013) Discussion > Is this movie right-wing propaganda?
I don't think it right wing propaganda, but it certainly is the reality of a lot of Cubans. It's a beautiful raw film that would be best appreciated if watched with no expectations.
share1) Since 99.999% of film is "left-wing" propaganda, it probably wouldn't kill you to accidentally watch another point of view.
2) I haven't seen it, so I have no idea what it is.
3) If you read the polls, the view of Cuban politics in the US isn't a bipartisan issue, and is controversial across the globe.
4) Too bad that only a few elite Cubans will be allowed to watch this movie, or read any posts, including yours, about it anyway due to this:
From Wikipedia:
Censorship in Cuba is the most intense in the western hemisphere. It has been reported on extensively and resulted in European Union sanctions from 2003 to 2008 as well as statements of protest from groups, governments, and noted individuals.[1][2]
Cuba has ranked low on the Press Freedom Index from Reporters Without Borders from 2002 when the index was established (134th out of 139)[3] to the present (167th out of 179 in 2011-2012).[4] In 2006 the Inter American Press Association reported that "repression against independent journalists, mistreatment of jailed reporters, and very strict government surveillance limiting the people’s access to alternative sources of information are continuing".[5]
Books, newspapers, radio channels, television channels, movies and music are heavily censored. Clandestine printing is also highly restricted.[6] The special permits that are required to use the Internet are only available to selected Cubans and use of the Internet is limited for the vast majority of Cubans.[7] Mobile phones are quite rare, with most citizens not having been allowed to use them until quite recently.[8] Foreign journalists who can work in the country are selected by the government.[9]
Media is operated under the supervision of the Communist Party's Department of Revolutionary Orientation, which "develops and coordinates propaganda strategies".[
Watch the movie before you ask if this movie is Right-Wing Propaganda. It's produced by Spike Lee so you think that he's going to do anything "Right-Wing"? You obviously don't know that this movie is based on a true story.
shareTraxxtv, if the movie is right wing propaganda, I don't want to waste my time watching it to find that out. And, if the movie is based on a true story, that doesn't make it gospel.
shareNot any more "tired right-wing propaganda" than your comment or every Holocaust film.
shareGamblingmike, your post didn't make any sense aside from your poor attempt at trying to mock my post which asked a legitimate question.
shareMy post made plenty of sense but not to the simple minded. It obviously pertains to the old unintelligent notion that anyone against Castro or that anyone who recognizes that his regime is a tyranny is somehow part of the "tired right". Your question is legitimate in the sense that it comes from someone that thinks that the subject should be "objective" and "if the movie is based on a true story, that doesn't make it gospel". Obviously you don't know much at all on the subject if you think those things. There are no "objective" films on Pol-Pot, Hitler, Stalin, Capone, etc. The very word implies that there is a flip side, in other words an excuse for their crimes against humanity. Any film that will make an attempt at being "objective" on those people takes into account all the killings of innocents perpetuated by them. That will no longer be "objective".
The question should not be "Is this movie right-wing propaganda?" but does the film address the issue of Cuba under Castro (i.e. in contemporary times). It does. There have been many human rights violations in Cuba. Wrong is wrong, that alone transcends the right/left paradigm (which has gotten old and very tired).
Let me guess: You'd describe any movie that would utter the slightest form of criticism of US atrocities and human rights violations as left-wing propaganda?
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The film is not propaganda, least of all right-wing. It's hardly political at all, so there's no need to fear for your ideological purity. It is about family, friendship, growing pains of adolescence and desperation. That said, it doesn't sugarcoat the bleak reality of poverty, helplessness and the police state that drive so many unfortunate Cubans to a fate similar to that of the protagonists. La Habana is also shown in all its decaying urban splendor. Go watch it, and forget about left and right. This is about real life.
shareAnd by "right wing propaganda" you mean anything that is not communist?
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