Memories of Underdevelopment (1968 )

" I discovered Elena didn't think as much as I did. I try to live as European and she makes me  feel the underdevelopment  at every step"
says Sergio Corrieri  who is the main character of  Gutierrez film.The place is Havana of 1961, aftermath of  Bay of Pigs incident through missile crisis in 1962. Sergio's parents and his wife leave Cuba for the United States, he stays, to see what  will happen to " first genuine Latin American revolution; " as sarcastically described by his Bourgeois friend Pablo, he is also getting ready to leave the island.
Sergio does not work, but he lives a comfortable life in big apartment with the income coming from other rental properties. Sergio is the man with intellect. He refuses to participate to social and political history, to him in past things were better, " Havana was the Paris of the Caribbean " but now the stores are burned down, and empty. Sergio's solution for his own political and social alienation is Elena, a sixteen years old virgin,  he quickly managed to seduce her, Elena belongs to uneducated, "underdevelopment" crowd, and the proof of this, she is "inconsistent" this rule applies to most of the Cubans, " inability to gain experience, and developed " therefore inconsistency leads to "underdevelopment" which he despise constantly.

Thomas Gutierrez Alea's , Memories of Underdevelopment (1968) film is doesn't trap itself to propaganda of revolutionary Politics, yet clearly tells us the story of psychological  one. The cultural imperialism is real and here to stay. Not to be effected ratter difficult task, fight against it another story. The last segment of the film places  live- footage of Fidel's speech before the Missile crisis " Vencermos " calls out the leader of the revolution, "we shall overcome".