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Humberto Solas Lucia

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Lucia is a classic of Cuban cinema by a director that goes by the name Humberto Solas. Solas used a very clever approach to explain and illustrate three different kinds of Lucia at three different time period in the Cuban history. Solas used the time period and the hardship the county is facing to shape the same Lucia from that time period. Each Lucia from each time period’s life style and experience is related to the country’s issue at hand.
Firstly, Lucia I was themed to be a melodramatic romance. Knowing this, it was expected for the film to have drama, exaggerated emotions, interpersonal conflict, and stereotypical characters. Lucia was an upper class woman that has never felt what love feels like before, so when she had the chance, …show more content…

Solas used the excuse of the “Love is blind” saying to illustrate how gullible and close minded she is to seeing the dark side Rafael is showing her. Although she found out at a point that Rafael has a wife and child in Spain, she is still blind to the bigger picture because she’s in love. There was a scene in the movie that was exaggerated to the utmost. The scene was a little confusing because Lucia tried to seduce Rafael but he wasn’t biting the bait. The roles switched and now it was Rafael doing to seducing. It seemed like he forced his ways onto her. After all this, she gave in and decided to run away with him to her parent’s coffee plantation. Come to find out, Rafael used her to get the location of the coffee plantation. The Spanish army surprised the Cuba army and almost took them out. The only thing that was understood from this episode of the film Lucia is that females are the down fall of a nation. Rafael faked his love for Lucia to get the location out of her, and it worked. This basically illustrates back to the bible when Eva caused the downfall of Adam and the doomed of mankind. The film is suggesting that women cannot be

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