The film Before Night Falls, is an autobiography of Reinaldo Arenas’ life. Reinaldo was a very brave man that lived his brutal life with a lot of passion. Arenas was a victim of a society in the midst of the Fidel Castro revolution. He was a homosexual poet and consequently, his works were restricted by the government.
Throughout the movie he stayed true to his homosexual ways even though he lived in a very close-minded society. Arenas was very audacious and determined to fight for what he believed in and did not change when he was in sent to a rehab center to turn him straight.
His novels and life became dominated by the mix of temptation, fear, and betrayal. Arenas’s rage against the Castro regime that made his life horrendous is very obvious. The movie made me understand more about the revolution, the repression in Cuba, and the homosexual and homophobic aspects of my culture.
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