The film opens with almost sort of propaganda as a reporter interview female workers at the sugar cane factory and shows the women’s contribution to the revolution. The open discussion between the woman tackled topics like struggle of being a woman, wanting to be able to explore your interest while being a loyal working citizen and dealing with machismo. I love that this is a topic of discussion that can still be had nowadays, although things have progressed in certain aspects woman still deal with it. Gomez shows how patriarchy affects women, men complaining that the women working at the factory interferes with their “paternal” duties making it inconvenient and stressful for the woman to have any separation from what is thought to be the “woman’s responsibility.”

Madison Reed