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S2 Bonus 7 - "Sweet Dirty Tony's Baadasssss Song"

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Film Review - Is There a Revolution in Havana?

The film is at that point, like I said, there's nuance or an attempted nuance is right out the way. He kills himself because he feels so guilty about seizing his uncle's gigantic tobacco plantation for the public funds. His mom starts saying, why don't you marry her? She's lonely. And they fall in love. But she's a dizzy broad who believes in Fidel and the revolution. So as Garcia attempts to get her to come with him, she stays behind causing me to think how much more interesting the film would have been if it was about her life and her decisions. The movie just doesn't even make him care about that in this fictional world.

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