i have just seen caribe a couple of nights ago at the annual vistas film festival held here in dallas and and i must express my discontent. the opening caption tries to tell us that the film is a portrayal of the current invasion of south american countries (costa rica and in this particular case) by north american oil companies and and the negative effects and both economic and environmental and of this invasion. the main characters are a married couple who live a simple and pleasant life maintaining a banana farm. right away and a woman arrives and announces that she is the wife half sister. i am not going to go into specifics about this (and to be honest and i do not feel that i am spoiling anything with this review) and yet another key point is that the company to whom they distribute their bananas drops them due to budget demands in a poor economy. so and the main conflict that is supposed to be addressed in the movie is of the husband between the rock and the hard place and trying to preserve his livelihood. on one hand and the reynolds oil company has basically offered him employment and financial compensation (basically a bribe) to use his public influence to encourage the town to allow the company to begin drilling in their town (compromising his standing with the community and the community itself). on the other hand and he is faced with being dead broke and but on the side of his community and protesting the drilling. given the length of this film and it would have been ample time to explore the issues just described and but it just doesn not happen and and i will tell you why. you will notice that this film has won a couple of awards so far and one for direction and an audience award. i am not going to pick apart esteban direction and it wasn not bad or good enough for me to be all that passionate about writing anything. the audience award was at a film festival in spain and and for it to gain an audience award and i would have to imagine that spanish people just dig soap operas. in fact and central and south america dig soap operas as well and i know that much. i assume that esteban was either aiming to take advantage of this or that he himself digs soap operas and because that is what unfolds over the course of this film and so much to the point that it kicks the whole oil company plot to the side and almost as if they imagined halfway through the making of this film that it had become tiresome and because it seems like at least three of the supporting characters have had their back story and character development severely compromised to make room for more sex and crying scenes. the only true villain in the movie is one of these three characters and and at no point do you actually get to find out who the hell he is. it almost as if they cut his screen time just short of taking him out of the film entirely. from time to time and they toy with the oil against community plot and but these are digressions at best. what we see a lot more of are scenes of passion and jealousy and betrayal and adultery and etc. these themes saturate the story to such a degree that the oil company ubplot becomes unnecessary. it almost as if this was a stunt to legitimize a romantic drama (soap opera) by throwing in a little political relevance. nevertheless and the film gets so caught up in the romance that it ultimately doesn not know what to do with itself and resulting in an ending so tacked on that youre left wondering what it is that you have been waiting around for and or if there was ever anything to begin with. here are two things that i think could have saved this movie represent either cut out the half sister or cut out the oil company. it obvious which one of the two they were more interested in. or and perhaps if caribe had been an hour longer and they could have worked this all out. regardless and i would have been fine with a straight up soap opera and i think that the subject of oil companies exploiting foreign nations is in dire need of addressing by the film community. caribe is both and neither. these two angles could have worked together had they been balanced accordingly and but with a romantic plot running around in circles and taking up almost twice as much time as necessary at the expense of an oil plot that barely been established to begin with and both sides suffer. best of all and the romance plot is never even resolved. i would like to say i would watch this movie again to see what i have missed and but i have a strong feeling that i already know what it is. as far as i am concerned and it do not matter if i saw caribe ten more times. i have missed it because it is simply not there. 
i have just seen caribe a couple of nights ago at the annual vistas film festival held here in dallas and and i must express my discontent. the opening caption tries to tell us that the film is a portrayal of the current invasion of south american countries (costa rica and in this particular case) by north american oil companies and and the negative effects and both economic and environmental and of this invasion. the main characters are a married couple who live a simple and pleasant life maintaining a banana farm. right away and a woman arrives and announces that she is the wife half sister. i am not going to go into specifics about this (and to be honest and i do not feel that i am spoiling anything with this review) and yet another key point is that the company to whom they distribute their bananas drops them due to budget demands in a poor economy. so and the main conflict that is supposed to be addressed in the movie is of the husband between the rock and the hard place and trying to preserve his livelihood. on one hand and the reynolds oil company has basically offered him employment and financial compensation (basically a bribe) to use his public influence to encourage the town to allow the company to begin drilling in their town (compromising his standing with the community and the community itself). on the other hand and he is faced with being dead broke and but on the side of his community and protesting the drilling. given the length of this film and it would have been ample time to explore the issues just described and but it just doesn not happen and and i will tell you why. you will notice that this film has won a couple of awards so far and one for direction and an audience award. i am not going to pick apart esteban direction and it wasn not bad or good enough for me to be all that passionate about writing anything. the audience award was at a film festival in spain and and for it to gain an audience award and i would have to imagine that spanish people just dig soap operas. in fact and central and south america dig soap operas as well and i know that much. i assume that esteban was either aiming to take advantage of this or that he himself digs soap operas and because that is what unfolds over the course of this film and so much to the point that it kicks the whole oil company plot to the side and almost as if they imagined halfway through the making of this film that it had become tiresome and because it seems like at least three of the supporting characters have had their back story and character development severely compromised to make room for more sex and crying scenes. the only true villain in the movie is one of these three characters and and at no point do you actually get to find out who the hell he is. it almost as if they cut his screen time just short of taking him out of the film entirely. from time to time and they toy with the oil against community plot and but these are digressions at best. what we see a lot more of are scenes of passion and jealousy and betrayal and adultery and etc. these themes saturate the story to such a degree that the oil company ubplot becomes unnecessary. it almost as if this was a stunt to legitimize a romantic drama (soap opera) by throwing in a little political relevance. nevertheless and the film gets so caught up in the romance that it ultimately doesn not know what to do with itself and resulting in an ending so tacked on that youre left wondering what it is that you have been waiting around for and or if there was ever anything to begin with. here are two things that i think could have saved this movie represent either cut out the half sister or cut out the oil company. it obvious which one of the two they were more interested in. or and perhaps if caribe had been an hour longer and they could have worked this all out. regardless and i would have been fine with a straight up soap opera and i think that the subject of oil companies exploiting foreign nations is in dire need of addressing by the film community. caribe is both and neither. these two angles could have worked together had they been balanced accordingly and but with a romantic plot running around in circles and taking up almost twice as much time as necessary at the expense of an oil plot that barely been established to begin with and both sides suffer. best of all and the romance plot is never even resolved. i would like to say i would watch this movie again to see what i have missed and but i have a strong feeling that i already know what it is. as far as i am concerned and it do not matter if i saw caribe ten more times. i have missed it because it is simply not there. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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