Subject: Oneiric inversion, naturalization and gender inequality in Cuban cinema Sueño Tropical articulates its proposal through a oneiric device that systematically inverts gender roles in order to make visible what, in everyday life, appears naturalized. Through the protagonist’s dream, the film displaces onto the male body experiences historically associated with women—domestic subordination, the overload of care… Seguir leyendo Sueño tropical
The analysis of Adorables mentiras focuses on the articulation between gender, language, and the cinematic device as fundamental axes for understanding the social, symbolic, and affective dynamics that permeate Cuba in the late 1980s. Through ordinary characters and seemingly banal situations, the film reveals how double moral standards, structural machismo, the hierarchization of desire, and material precariousness… Seguir leyendo Analysis of Adorables mentiras
Subject: Double Standards and Gender Issues Set in late-1980s Cuba, Adorables Mentiras offers a critical perspective on everyday life through a network of affective, professional, and symbolic relationships marked by simulation and inequality. Through characters positioned at different levels of power—the state official, the precarious intellectual, subordinated women, and marginalized figures—the film exposes how lying, silence, and… Seguir leyendo Adorables mentiras
