Memories Of Underdevelopment Analysis

A new form of cinema or third world cinema main goal is to challenge the power structure and in due course increase social consciousness. Social consciousness focuses specifically, on creating a rational thinking within society by incorporating politics, a sense of nationalism, and a wide range of ideologies. This intricate cinema wants to “organically” reveal the reality of what's going on as well as educate the individual living in this society. In relation to Cuba, it educates by demonstrating revolutionary regime ideas, since the Cuban revolution as its main objective was to gain self-sovereignty. Self-sovereignty is rooted in the idea that Cuba was rich in resources, yet still poor. In other words, they were underdeveloped. Memories of Underdevelopment by Tomas Gutierrez Alea, gives us a glimpse of what is like to live in an underdeveloped society. Memories of underdevelopment picks up after the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 entering post-revolutionary Cuba. With Sergio Corrieri, a fairly educated individual, as the main character, we see a reflection of Guevarra’s new man and Castro’s ideologies.
Sergio Corrieri is living in an “underdeveloped” world yet he does not seem to be consumed by the word. Although he
There are those who oppose and those who oppose and try to change. Those who oppose and try to change are true revolutionaries. Under that umbrella falls Sergio, again going back to Sergio wanting to stay and not flee, he sort of opposes the revolution because of his demotion to a lower class. Because he opposes the revolution, he tries in his own way change it. Per definition, Sergio is a revolutionary. For one, he does not leave the country because he wants to change the fate of his life. By fleeing the country, he is solely opposing the revolution and not even being a revolutionary at