This is a fantastic movie about friendship and all that friendship can accomplish. It is set in Havana, where David, a young communist and university student, meets Diego, a cultivated, artistic gay man with many ideas about how life should be lived.
David is interested in Diego only because he might be a counter-revolutionary. At one point he tells Diego that his parents are at fault for his gayness, that something must have happened in his childhood to make him gay. Because of this, perhaps an absentee father (David suggests), Diego now has a "glandular" problem.
Despite this kind of attitude, Diego enjoys David's visits, and eventually they become close friends. The ending is not happy, but it is wonderful.
Watch this and think about friendship, and then watch the Social Network. What accounts for the difference in people? Why do some people have the ability to be a friend, while others do not?
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