Review of Blame It on Fidel! (2006) by Jasmine S — 30 Apr 2009

[font='Times New Roman','serif']I have mixed feelings on ?Blame It on Fidel.? However, overall I liked the movie because it does show true-life experiences and comes from a child?s point of view. I think the movie would not have gotten the point across if it would have been from one of the parent?s point of view. Anna is put in a situation where she is used to the normal day to day routine and now everything is changing at once. This can be a hard situation to deal with at that age. The children in the movie have their ?Nanny? switched often. Not all of them could cook well which Annie had a huge problem with. Then in reality not everyone can cook good food, so it?s something we all have to deal with. Children like to have a routine and stick with it. Also it shows how children can be stubborn. For instance, the cooking scenes, Anna did not like how the food looked so she refused to eat it. [/font].

[font='Times New Roman','serif']One of the interesting things in the movie was when Anna runs away with her brother. In the beginning of the movie Anna gets made at her brother because he will not leave her alone and he is bothersome to her. Later in the movie one can see a caring side of Annie. She takes her brother with her when she leaves and she tries to help protect him from everything that is going on around them. Even if siblings do have rivalry they normally look after each other. The interesting part is at the age of nine, children typically do not worry about their younger sibling, but Anna does. She is portrayed as being a very mature child. [/font].

[font='Times New Roman','serif']There were only two things I had a problem with and they were the understanding of history and the children being in the middle of everything. I know for me history is a weak subject so I was confused for part of the movie. Watching a movie is normally more entertaining than having to read straight from a history book, but with very little understanding of history can make it difficult. The other thing was how the mother and father dragged the children into all the chaos of their own lives. In my opinion there are places where children should be taken and then there are others they should avoid. One main example is when both children are at the protest/riot. That is opening a door for the children to be exposed to a great deal of negative influences, violence, vandalism, and other possible crimes. [/font].