Harvey Milk once stated, “It takes no compromise to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people their freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression. I find Milk’s thoughts to be very true based on witnessing how difficult it is for homosexual to be seen as equal to heterosexual people. The film Fresco y Chocolate depicts a flamboyant gay artist, Diego, who tries to seduce a college student named David throughout the film. David is a young communist, and he strongly believes in the Cuban Revolution. However, Diego is the opposite. How do these two men form such an unlikely close friendship? In the following paragraphs I will discuss various components and themes that I have observed in Fresco y Chocolate. To begin, Fresco y Chocolate was set around the 1970s. In the beginning of David and Deigo friendship it seemed tense because
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Diego is enlightening David with different writings, music, and artwork from Cubans which he has never heard before. In a sense David is unsophisticated. He is fascinated and eager to learn more because he returns often. This action demonstrates that David does not see Diego as a counterrevolutionary but someone who loves his country just as much as he does. There are many issues in Cuba revealed in Fresco y Chocolate such as examines freedom of expression, surveillance, revolutionary watchfulness, the black market, and the flaws of revolutionary Cuban society. For example, although Diego and David are forming this tight kinship he cannot speak to David in public. Another example is in one scene in one of Diego’s and David’s heated discussion where Diego yells that all he wants is to be able to live freely in the country that he was born and raised in. This scene exemplifies how there are many limitations in “freedom of expression” in Cuba at the time especially for a gay
Diego is enlightening David with different writings, music, and artwork from Cubans which he has never heard before. In a sense David is unsophisticated. He is fascinated and eager to learn more because he returns often. This action demonstrates that David does not see Diego as a counterrevolutionary but someone who loves his country just as much as he does. There are many issues in Cuba revealed in Fresco y Chocolate such as examines freedom of expression, surveillance, revolutionary watchfulness, the black market, and the flaws of revolutionary Cuban society. For example, although Diego and David are forming this tight kinship he cannot speak to David in public. Another example is in one scene in one of Diego’s and David’s heated discussion where Diego yells that all he wants is to be able to live freely in the country that he was born and raised in. This scene exemplifies how there are many limitations in “freedom of expression” in Cuba at the time especially for a gay