The film highlights the gap between rich and poor in batista's time, showing rich land, crowded slums, and luxurious entertainment venues. The film adopts the form of travelogues, treating the vast number of Cuban people as the "male protagonist", and Cuba itself seems to be the "female protagonist", and US imperialism is the natural opposite.
It's a film shot in '64, but it's a film that's several generations ahead of its time, so politically that when Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Sissex saw this last-century film in 2002, they couldn't help but shout, this is the greatest film of the last decade, this is a film that has forever changed people's perception of cinema! The most beautiful film visually, the spectacular fainting film, the dazzling suffocating film, the beautiful and elegant but tearful film, technically this can be a film that no one can surpass, artistically this is the highest state of poetic film, but more importantly, this is a revolutionary epic Communist war song, although he is a product of the last century, but today he has made people have a newer and clearer understanding of the world.
Let all the oppressed walk arm in arm! Let them hold high the banner of communism. Let's seek happiness for the world together! Ideas that have a great impact are often extremely naïve: if the exploiters come together to form a force, then the exploited should do the same, and the reason is as simple as that.
It's a screen poem in praise of Cuba, similar to Eisenstein's Mexican documentary. The film's political allegorical implications are buried in a strong visual and auditory image, and the skill is superb, such as the fact that there is a difficult long shot at the beginning of the film that is breathtaking. The screenplay was written by the popular Soviet poet and Cuban novelist at the time, and the director won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for "Flying Geese South".