Gomez’s film One Way or Another was a film that shows its maker with their finger on the pulse. Sara Gómez, at the risk of censorship, made the best film that she could to represent the people at the ground level. The revolution is more than its ideals and its institutions, but rather, it has to be the people. She obviously believed in socialism and had a revolutionary mindset but her biggest strength is her ability to be comfortable in the contradiction. She didn’t shy away from the truth of men’s use of Abakua and women’s use of Santeria, of the exaltation of light skin mulata women in in Cuba. She was also rather aware of the class bias, how they can undermine revolutionary goals in a well meaning person like Yolanda. Yolanda’s class comfortability didn’t affect her ability to love a macho man like Mario, but she judged the women quite harshly (Lazaro’s mother and the other mother of 11 children).  Gomez also shows how a man like Mario obviously takes code and honor seriously as a macho Nanigo man but he still cracks under pressure when presented with a new code. This film is really fresh so many years later because it simply shows people at their best and their total worst, but the work isn’t done yet and there’s still hope.