I have read most of the commentaries here, before writing my own, and I could make a pattern: whenever somebody makes a very negative commentary about the film, at the same time shows that is not Cuban or has lack of knowledge about Cuba's reality. First of all, let's say it: it is true that the film is not 100% accurate, but we are not talking about a documentary. Secondly, for all those people worried about the AIDS shot, I'm very sorry to tell you that this was a true story. Thirdly, most of the Cubans that I have known, including myself, have somehow had a Gustavo inside, and/or have lived pieces of this story by themselves. The story is a mixture of reality and fantasy (after all is always like this in any art), that anyone that has passed in Cuba part of his/her life during the same years that the film shows will feel it very close. Some people could be lucky and never have seen anything like the ones that are depicted, but as I'm telling you, this was just luck. Many, many Cubans have suffered or still suffer on their own flesh these atrocities.
Review of Bitter Sugar
