nicole-a-brooks001 This was a great movie. It taught me about struggles that people other than African Americans went through. It taught me about how i should appreciate my country and my freedom.This movie is the best movie i have yet to see. The actors were great and the movie kept me wanting to see more.This movie showed how greed,power,and money can affect a country.This movie is showed me that lots of people from all over the world went through some hard times. The Dominican republic never gained a strong government and thats why Americans should be grateful that we have a not great but good government and freedom of speech. I could not imagine having to live through the things they lived through. Even though the movies was not filmed in the Dominican Repubic or filmed with Dominicans it doesn't matter. Where it was made or who made it doesn't matter the fact is the story was told and the movie was made.

Lee Eisenberg In case you've never heard of Rafael Trujillo, he seized power in the Dominican Republic in a 1930 coup, and ruled the country through terror, torture, and assassination over the next thirty years. "In the Time of the Butterflies" portrays the Mirabal sisters, who sought to overthrow him. The movie did a worthy job looking at their lives, although it could have gone into life under Trujillo's regime a little more. Salma Hayek plays Minerva Mirabal and Edward James Olmos plays Trujillo.Another interesting thing about Trujillo was that, although the US gladly propped him up for so many years, the CIA ended up assassinating him. You see, Trujillo had - like Manuel Noriega and Saddam Hussein - been using his position to enrich himself rather than the US. So, the CIA assassinated him in 1961. For further information, read "The CIA's Greatest Hits" by Mark Zepezauer.

kekelolo4 By watching this movie, I was educated in that women are abused severely in so many other cultures for reasons we take for granted in the United States. I did not know that women in the Dominican Republic were abused and/or beaten to death for protesting corruptness. I am an American born Black woman of Hispanic origin (Puerto Rican heritage).A lot of us born to Black women and Hispanic fathers outside of wedlock do not know much of our heritage due to the separation of our parents and most of us are raised solely as Black children. As an adult, I am embracing my Hispanic heritage. I need to learn more of my father's culture. I cannot learn from him because he has passed on, but he never stopped looking for his ángela negra pequeña.I plan to use this movie in my English Literature class in honor of March's Women's month.We must abolish domestic violence against women all over the world! Women are the creatures God put on this earth to reproduce. Such violence against women must end. What better place to deter violence against women than educating young men in school.Please continue to bring new material to us.

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