00:00Havana is full of zombies, buildings fall, streets are full of garbage and misery, elevators don't work, looking for food is a odyssey.
00:10In the background, the signs of father or death remain in the middle of dust and rot. The exit is in the dangerous sea.
00:19But no, it's not reality.
00:21We are talking about the Cuban film Juan de los Muertos, a comedy that, unfortunately, is becoming more and more like life on the island.
00:30A carefully detailed caricature of the decadent daily life of the Cuban.
00:35Well, the story of Juan de los Muertos, as Bruguero recently told Sara Moreno in the new Herald,
00:47it turns out that he was walking through Havana with his producer after making Person of Belonging, which is a fairly interesting film, in 2006.
00:55And then suddenly, I don't know if it was the producer who told him, look at the people walking through Havana, they look like zombies.
01:03And he stayed meditating and said, that's the pressure of the film.
01:06Juan de los Muertos, we kill your loved ones, what can I do for you?
01:08Incredible, it was a challenge, because this is a genre that needs many special effects, and I think they are achieved.
01:15We are talking about the fact that at that time there was no artificial intelligence, much less Cuba had a digital industry that could face a film like the one that was being proposed.
01:27And I've seen it several times, and I've seen it again, and it seems to me that in addition to the whole factory itself, the validity of this film.
01:36Juan de los Muertos, a Cuban film that won a Goya Award, is presented in Miami as part of the film festival of this city, with the online presence of its director,
01:46and receives the applause of an audience that never ceases to be amazed at its sad parallelism with reality.
01:54Juan de los Muertos is still a revelatory film, revelatory for Cubans, although sadly very current, right?
02:02He himself says, and I quote him again, that he never thought, because he is not a pessimist, says Bruez, that he never thought that the film would have validity.
02:12He would think no, he would not have wanted it to have validity, but every time a person sees it for the first time,
02:20he says, my God, that looks like a Havana right now.
02:25Especially that, with the ruins, the deterioration, people walking down the street looking for their food, with habitats that look like zombies.
02:35Everything that was spoken, that I can add, has a lot of validity, it is very good, it is very good 15 years later.
02:42And what a beautiful night, right? To be able to talk to the director and everything.
02:45Obviously it is a criticism, as they said, as a metaphor for Cuban society, but said in a very intelligent and very nice way.
02:54But the message is there.
02:56Do you think the film is current?
02:59Of course, of course, a lot, unfortunately.
03:03Migration, hunger and invention.
03:06Flee, take advantage of the situation, resist.
03:10What is missing in Cuba besides blackouts, hunger, violence and repression?
03:15A zombie apocalypse?
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