Create a 7 pages page paper that discusses analysis of fresa y chocolate film. The main aim of the film is to show features, significance, and importance of human relationships in the period of political dictatorship. the film also shows that in spite of any political regime people display affectations and feelings to each other, and in such time these relations between people are more open and frank that is reflected in the film Fresa y chocolate. These issues are increasingly important in this age of human relationship varieties and politics influence these relationships.&nbsp.

2. The film presents a colorful description of Cuban society under Fidel Castro’s rule, and the plot of the film Fresa y chocolate is tightly connected with living conditions and cultural contradictions of Cuban society. The film tells the story of two young men each of whom had different cultural outlooks, although they both supported the political regime. Diego was a gay artist, but homosexual life was forbidden in Cuba. Otherwise, David studied sociology in Havana and was a true communist. The film shows social life in Cuba and its ethical and cultural features which influenced the flow of the film and the main characters’ actions. Both protagonists of the film present two different sides of social ethics: the way of life of communist ideology supporters, and that of people who don’t put down in the ethical limits of the socialist state. As was mentioned above, Daniel studied sociology, and he was a true communist supporter and a member of the communist youth brigades. Diego followed another style of life: he was an artist who saw his mission in Cuban culture promotion. So, any link between these two young men seems to be rather strange, but in spite of this fact, they became real friends: “Diego is gay, religious and a nationalist, while David is straight, an atheist and a communist. Their relationship is flawed, in addition, by jealousies, both mutual and contextual (Santi, 2001)”. The name of the film, Fresa y chocolate, is rather symbolic in this context: David and Diego met in a caf, David took chocolate while Diego did strawberry ice cream that was surprising to David, but Diego underlined that some people prefer chocolate while others prefer strawberry. This scene symbolically shows the protagonists’ membership to different and contradictory sides of the political, cultural, and ethical sides of Cuban society. The film doesn’t deny socialist ideology in Cuba, but there is a clear notion of a variety of ethical and sexual life in post-revolution Cuban society. It needs to take into account that Castro’s regime didn’t support such social and ethical phenomenon as homosexuality, and in 1965 he told that “we would never come to believe that a homosexual could embody the conditions and requirements of conduct that would enable us to consider him a true Revolutionary, a true Communist militant. A deviation of that nature clashes with the concept we have of what a militant Communist must be (West, 1995)”. Diego feels real affectation to David, but his feeling cannot be accepted by his friend in that time in Cuba that is reflected in the film: it was just unrealizable desire which contradicted the system of the state.