Movie recommendation

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Last night I rented out and watched the indy flick The Lost City. If it's been posted about before, I apologize, but I figured it's a film you all would enjoy.

Andy Garcia wrote, directed, and starred in it and it's about the days leading up to and right after Fidel Castro took over Cuba. Basically, Cuba's political unrest threatens everything the protagonist, a club owner, values. It's a well-made film and the music's great. But what I really enjoyed about it is how it tells the truth about Castro's freedom-sucking regime. Saxophones become illegal because they were invented by a Belgian, and Belgium colonized Angola (Castro sent troops to help out the Communists there). Stagehands can't play cards because it's "gambling." A tobacco farm owned by a family for decades is seized by the state. Batista's dungeons become Castro's dungeons. Moreover, Che Guevara isn't portrayed as some counterculture hero or a cool guy. In this film, he's a murderous thug.

Anti-Communism has a bad name in Hollywood while Castro and Guevara have this radical chic cache, which makes this movie very refreshing (and it explains why Garcia had to make it himself.) It's a very pro-freedom film and I highly recommend it.